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One Special Summer
Jacqueline and Lee Bouvier
#UB1962
Hardcover, 72 pages; 2006
$24.95
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It chronicles an extraordinary trip to Europe by two young women, aged twenty-one and eighteen. The year was 1951—just six years after the end of the war-and the girls were privileged New Yorkers Jacqueline Bouvier (later to add Kennedy and Onassis to her name) and her younger sister Lee. They begged their mother to let them go to Europe alone and promised to be good. Once there, they giggled and toured their way through country after country, taking singing and art lessons, being invited to embassy parties and other elite social events, and generally having a grand old time. One Special Summer was the remembrance book they created as a "thank you" to their parents on their return: Jackie illustrated; and Lee (now Radziwill) wrote-and first published the book in 1974, with a new foreword in this edition. To say that One Special Summer is charming is to understate the case. It's as much a remembrance of 1950s fashions, mores, and culture as it is the personal scrapbook of two women who went on to lead remarkable lives.
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