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GREY GARDENS Almost every family has skeletons in the closet and relatives they wish would recede into the woodwork. Such was true of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and her sister Lee Radziwill. As girls, their Aunt Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (Big Edie) and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale (Little Edie), their cousin, were equally part of the upper crust and Jackie and her sister enjoyed summer visits to their beautiful home and estate Grey Gardens in the wealthy Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton. In those days, life was good. But when Big Edie’s husband left her for another woman, their lives were to undergo a desperate change. Without the funds or ability to keep up the huge property, Grey Gardens began to fall into ruin. Eventually the two women became very reclusive, barely hanging on to survival. Exposed by the Enquirer and a cover story in New York Magazine about the filth, fleas, cats and raccoons sharing the home with the women, the health department i...

**** BIOGRAPHY **** Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Of the many biographies written about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, most tend to give a chronological depiction of the events of her life, often with a focus on the powerful men with whom she was connected. Author Tina Santi Flaherty, a powerful woman herself, thinks that Jackie’s leadership skills are often overlooked and asserts that the same qualities—of focus, courage, vision, self-awareness, and quest for knowledge—that captivated some of the most interesting men of the 20th century, also allowed Jackie to have such a profound influence on the world stage... On the twentieth anniversary of her death, Perigee Books, a division of Penguin Random House, is proud to publish a commemorative edition of WHAT JACKIE TAUGHT US: Lessons from the Remarkable Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Perigee Hardcover; $25.00; May 6, 2014) by Tina Santi Flaherty.