Letters to Jackie

Author:	Fitzpatrick, Ellen
Binding:	Paperback
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ISBN:	9780061969829
Publisher:	Harper Collins
Language:	English
Page Count:	351
Publication Date:	9/13/2011
Size:	8.12" l x 5.08" w x 1.06"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
Literary Collections	General
Biography & Autobiography	First Ladies

It is perhaps the most memorable event of the twentieth century: the assassination of president John F. Kennedy. Within seven weeks of president Kennedy's assassination in November 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy received more than 800,000 condolence letters. Two years later, the volume of correspondence would exceed 1.5 million letters. For the next forty-six years, the letters would remain essentially untouched. Now, in her selection of 250 of these astonishing letters, historian Ellen Fitzpatrick reveals a remarkable human record of that devastating moment, of Americans across generations, regions, races, political leanings, and religions, in mourning and crisis. Reflecting on their sense of loss, their fears, and their hopes, the authors of these letters wrote an elegy for the fallen president that captured the soul of the nation.