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There's a new book out about #JackieKennedy. It's been almost 30 years since her death; is there anything new to talk about? Yes! #NewBooks #Bookreview #stmartinspress #biography #jrandytaraborrelli #july2023Books #johnkennedy #jacquelinekennedy

From New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and lovers over a thirty-year period—as well as previously unreleased material from the JFK Library—Kennedy historian J. Randy Taraborrelli paints an unforgettable new…

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Taylor and Conor

Continued thread part three

August 2012

in an interview with rolling stone, the singer beamed at the idea of living next-door to her boyfriend of barely a month.

late august, things turned sour when taylor escorted Conor to the wedding of his cousin, kyle, in boston.

while conor was invited, according to kyle's mother vicki, he'd failed to RSVP and his attention-grabbing pop star date was persona non grata.

"they texted me an hour before the wedding and asked if they could come," vicki told the boston herald. "i responded, 'please do not come.' they came anyway."

when vicki asked them leave, swift wouldn't budge. "it was like talking to a ghost. she seemed to look right past me."

after an awkward standoff, the couple left the reception only to return later. "the family felt like they couldn't do anything," a source told people magazine.

Taylor's rep denied the story. "taylor was invited to the wedding and the bride thanked her profusely for being there."

kathie lee gifford. , a guest at the wedding, gave her account of the drama on the today show.

"vicki's account is accurate... [swift was asked to leave] twice."

the two patched things up and the next day swift accompanied Kennedy on a trip to his mother's grave paparazzi in tow taking multiple photos of the Kennedy family mourning

the two would be separated for several days the next week as taylor promoted her new song, the singer would send her private jet to fetch kennedy in hyannis and bring him to nashville.

"he's been with her ever since and his family doesn't know when he will be back."sources told vanity fair

things would come to a quiet finish. with kennedy returning to high school and swift promoting her new album, the two would soon call it quits. Taylor later says it was a distance thing and that they have no hard feelings

in an interview with rolling stone that fall, swift would address the wedding controversy, insisting it was all a misunderstanding.

"i would never knowingly show up somewhere that i thought i wasn't invited to. and i would never want to upstage anybody."

in j. randy taraborrelli's book "the kennedy heirs," that came out 2018 conor had also felt uncomfortable with swift's purchasing a house next-door.

"it seemed as if she was getting a little too attached."

in 2013 swift sold off the last of her her camelot dreams - her $4 million cape cod mansion - flipping it for a million dollar profit and setting her sits on freshly eighteen one direction member harry styles Taylor now twenty four

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Hello! Do you think Jackie Kennedy ever thought of Clint Hill? I know he stopped working for her soon after JFKs death or was forced to and they never spoke again, I read his book and i know he thought of her often and was devastated when he found out about her death. I wonder if she ever thought about him throughout the rest of her life- thank you for answering!

Hey, thanks for the question :)

I personally do believe that she thought of him and held him in high regard throughout her life. That being said, in the biographies that I’ve read about her it’s clear that after the assassination she wanted to look forward in her life in order to deal with the pain. More recent biographies such as J. Randy Taraborrelli’s latest one go in depth on her PTSD syndrome after what happened in Dallas, which I think explains why she didn’t keep a lot of close contact with people from her “D.C life”.

I know that they did see each other again sometime in the later sixties although I’m not totally sure what the occasion was. I also know that he was not too pleased about the news of her marrying Aristotle Onassis in 1968 and stated something along the lines of “she’ll always be Mrs. Kennedy to me”- which makes sense considering the tense Kennedy - Onassis relations in the earlier sixties.

Hope this was helpful :)

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Jackie knew how to navigate around the Kennedy culture. She had a lot of animosity towards photographers when she started out as a Kennedy wife. But later, she learned how to exist in New York with the paparazzi, and just go about her life looking gorgeous - J. Randy Taraborrelli

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Some of the books in MJ's library

Taj Jackson shared that his famous uncle loved the book The Law of Success by Napoleon Hill. He says Jackson loved this book and owned several copies of it.

According to biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli, in the early 80s, Jackson gave copies of the book The Autobiography of P.T. Barnum to both his lawyer and manager and told them, "Make this your Bible. I want my life to be the greatest show on earth."

The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving

The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale

Animal Language by Michael Bright

Complete Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The 48 Laws of Power

Seagull by Jonathan Livingston

Poetry by Rabindranath Tagore

Robert Burns poems

White Nights: The Story of a Prisoner in Russia by Menachem Begin

Hagakure: The Book of The Samurai by T. Yamamoto

Books by Sri Aurobindo

Books by Kalki Krishnamurthy

The Greatest Salesman in the World by OG Mandino

Malcolm X by Malcolm Haley

The Red Balloon by Albert Lamorisse

The Complete Works of O. Henry

The Verger by Somerset Maugham

The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame

The Children's Hour by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Tyger by William Blake

Sufi Poetry

The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood

The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

Thoughts of Love: A Collection of Poems on Love by Susan Polis Schutz

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe

They Cage the Animals at Night by Jennings Michael Burch

The Gift of Acabar by Og Mandino

Leaders of Men by Henry Woldmar Ruoff

Reflections in Black by Deborah Willis

Black in America by Eli Reed

Black Heroes of The 20th Century by Jessie Carney Smith

The Negro Caravan by Sterling A. Brown

Before the Mayflower by Lerone Bennet Jr.

How to Eat To Live by Elijah Muhammad

Your Creative Power by Alex Osborn

My Autobiography by Charlie Chaplin

Elvis Day By Day by Peter Guralnick

James Dean: An American Icon by David Loehr

Goldwyn: A Biography by A. Scott Berg

Duse: A Biography by William Weaver

Steps In Time by Fred Astaire

Bruce Lee: The Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon by John Little

Songs My Mother Taught Me by Marlon Brando

Elia Kazan: A Life by Elia Kazan

The Rolling Stones: A Life on the Road

Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg

Lincoln's Devotional by Carl Sandburg

Lennon in America: 1971-1980, Based in Part on the Lost Lennon Diaries, by Geoffrey Giuliano

Glass Onion: The Beatles In Their Own Words by Geoffrey Giuliano

The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics by Alan Aldridge

The Lost Lennon Interviews by Geoffrey Giuliano

Things We Said Today: Conversations with the Beatles by Geoffrey Giuliano

Books about Hitler - talking to Rabbi Schmuley Boteach, he said, "Hitler was a genius orator. To make that many people turn and change and hate, he had to be a showman and he was."

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book log - 2016

[the year my danny was born]

what to expect when you're expected by david javerbaum

seconds by bryan lee o'malley

choose your own autobiography by neil patrick harris

the beast within by serena valentino

the secret life of marilyn monroe by j. randy taraborrelli

brave new world by aldous huxley

fantastic beasts and where to find them by j.k. rowling

harry potter: the prequel by j.k. rowling

start here by scarlett macdougal

the lake house by kate morton

84, charing cross road by helene hanff

she went all the way by meg cabot

too late by colleen hoover

november 9 by colleen hoover

confess by colleen hoover

the motion of puppets by keith donohue

the regulars by georgia clark

life of pi by yann martel

mr. penumbra's 24-hour bookstore by robin sloan

all the missing girls by megan miranda

the singles game by lauren weisberger

emails from an asshole by john lindsay

dark lover by j.r. ward

the nest by cynthia d'aprix sweeney

queen of babble by meg cabot

harry potter and the cursed child by john tiffany

after dark by haruki murakami

one hundred names by cecelia ahern

they left us everything by plum johnson

what is not yours is not yours by helen oyeyemi

boo by neil smith

the royal we by heather cocks

made you up by francesca zappia

the magic strings of frankie presto by mitch albom

the book of awesome by neil pasricha

furiously happy by jenny lawson

the miseducation of cameron post by emily m. danforth

fresh off the boat by eddia huang

everything, everything by nicola yoon

why not me? by mindy kaling

humans of new york: stories by brandon stanton

the heart goes last by margaret atwood

devil may care by sebastian faulks

the book of you by claire kendall

dirty rush by taylor bell

if i was here by gayle forman

yaqui delgado wants to kick your ass by meg medina

let's pretend this never happened by jenny lawson

people i want to punch in the throat by jen mann

something real by heather demetrios

words and their meanings by kate bassett

don't look back by jennifer l. armentrout

reality boy by a.s. king

station eleven by emily st. john mandel

revival by stephen king

please look after mom by shin kyung-sook

please ignore vera dietz by a.s. king

the yorkshire pudding club by milly johnson

52 reasons to hate my father by jessica brody

i wrote this for you by pleasefindthis

what you wish for by kerry reichs

necessary lies by diane chamberlain

the girl with all the gifts by m.r. carey

china rich girlfriend by kevin kwan

the universe verus alex woods by gavin extence

half broke horses by jeannette walls

the book of bunny suicides by andy riley

godmother: the secret cinderella story by carolyn turgeon

harry potter and the philosopher's stone by j.k. rowling

lord of the flies by william golding

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Do you have any good books or resources on Ethel?

Ethel the documentary is a very good resource on not only Ethel but her and Bobby together. There are books about her but I have not read them so I can't say whether they are good or not. Ex: The Other Mrs Kennedy: Ethel Skakel Kennedy, and Jackie, Ethel, and Joan by J Randy Taraborrelli (he is known to be quite gossipy so I would take what he says with a grain of salt).

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The Queen of Camelot and Hollywood: Jackie Kennedy's Unexpected Encounters with Stardom

As the First Lady, Jackie Kennedy personified grace, style, and dignity under the most intense scrutiny. The years that followed her time in the White House were marked by triumphs and trials, including unexpected encounters with Hollywood. Yet, amidst her foray into stardom and her interactions with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, Jackie Kennedy remained ever herself – a woman of great substance, strength, and humility. This article explores Jackie Kennedy's interactions with Warren Beatty and Madonna, revealing a side of the former First Lady rarely seen. A Brief Romance with Warren Beatty In 1978, the former First Lady Jackie Kennedy found herself briefly drawn to the charisma of Hollywood actor Warren Beatty. However, the budding romance was short-lived. Despite Beatty's notable stature in Hollywood, the ever-discerning Jackie was left unimpressed by the actor's overwhelming self-absorption. According to J. Randy Taraborrelli's book, "Jackie: Public, Private, Secret," Jackie's dates with Beatty often ended up revolving entirely around him and his achievements. She had hoped for a deeper connection, but was instead met with a man unable to look beyond his own stardom. Disillusionment with Hollywood Stardom Taraborrelli's account of the brief affair reveals a stark contrast between Jackie's understated elegance and the unbridled flamboyance of Hollywood. Read the full article

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Book- Elizabeth Taylor.

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ماذا حدث لوالدة مارلين مونرو غلاديس بيرل بيكر؟ شرح قصة شقراء --- تم إصدار فيلم "شقراء" الجديد للمخرج "أندرو دومينيك" على Netflix ، حيث يقدم سردا خياليا لحياة أيقونة هوليوود مارلين مونرو. بالنظر إلى أن الفيلم يمزج بين الحقيقة والخيال ، فمن المحتمل أن يتساءل العديد من المشاهدين عن مدى دقة جوانب معينة من الفيلم ، من المشاهد التي تتضمن جون إف كينيدي إلى افتقار مونرو إلى شخصية الأب. جانب رئيسي آخر من الفيلم يتعلق بالعلاقة بين مونرو ووالدتها ، غلاديس بيرل بيكر ، وقد يرغب الجمهور أيضا في معرفة مدى دقة تصوير علاقتهما الحقيقية. في الفيلم ، تم تصوير طفولة مونرو المبكرة على أنها علاقة مضطربة للغاية - لأسباب ليس أقلها علاقة صعبة مع والدتها غلاديس ، التي لعبت دورها جوليان نيكلسون. يشير السجل التاريخي إلى أنه من الصحيح أن غلاديس عانت من الأمومة ، بسبب كل من الصراعات المالية وصعوبات الصحة العقلية - على الرغم من عدم وجود دليل يدعم المشهد في الفيلم الذي تحاول فيه إغراق مونرو في الحمام. في حياتها المبكرة ، وضعت مونرو في رعاية الوالدين بالتبني. خلال هذا الوقت ، كانت والدتها تزورها بانتظام ، ووفقا لسيرة J Randy Taraborrelli The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe ، فقد حاولت في إحدى المرات تهريبها إلى المنزل. استمر الزوجان في العيش معا مرة أخرى لفترة وجيزة ، ولكن تم تشخيص غلاديس بالفصام بجنون العظمة في يناير 1934 وتم إيداعها في النهاية في مستشفى متروبوليتان الحكومي بعد بضعة أشهر ، ثم انتقلت مونرو بين الوالدين بالتبني ودور الأيتام لبقية طفولتها. لقد عاشوا معا لفترة وجيزة مرة أخرى في عام 1946 ، وخلال هذه الفترة ورد أن غلاديس لم تكن سعيدة بقرار مونرو بأن تصبح ممثلة ، لكنها غادرت بعد ذلك لتتزوج من رجل يدعى جون ستيوارت إيلي - الذي كان لديه بالفعل زوجة وعائلة. في هذا الوقت ، ادعت مونرو - بناء على نصيحة من المديرين التنفيذيين في الاستوديو - أن والديها قد ماتا ، على الرغم من أنها أجبرت لاحقا على التراجع عندما ثبت أن غلاديس كانت لا تزال على قيد الحياة في عام 1952. لبقية حياتها ، كانت غلاديس تدخل وتخرج من المستشفيات وكان الاتصال بابنتها محدودا إلى حد ما ، على الرغم من أن مونرو حاولت التصالح معها. وفقا لكتاب Taraborrelli المذكور أعلاه ، كان آخر لقاء بين الزوجين في صيف عام 1962 عندما ناشدت مونرو والدتها أن تتناول دواءها - وهو أمر كانت ترفض القيام به. توفيت غلاديس في النهاية بسبب قصور في القلب في عام 1984 عن عمر يناهز 82 عاما ، وتمكنت من قضاء سنواتها الأخيرة بعيدا عن دور الطب النفسي. #مارلين_مونرو #نجوم #سينما #الولايات_المتحده

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who did jay z cheat on beyonce with trainer L8M?

💾 ►►► DOWNLOAD FILE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 During this break, Jay allegedly hooked up with a year-old Rihanna, who was signed to his Def Jam label. However, it has since been reported. JAY-Z confirms that he cheated on Beyoncé and apologizes on wax. On the title track, Jay discusses their marriage as well as their three. Jay-Z releases his new album , which features a collaboration with Bey called Family Feud, which features lyrics that seem to. Beyonce Finally Exposes How Jay Z Cheated On New SongAfter weeks of hype, Beyonce released her seventh studio album called Renaissance and. JAY-Z On Beyoncé's 'Lemonade': 'The Hardest Thing Is Seeing Pain On Someone's “Some questions I encourage partners to ask are, 'Did I do. Yeah, we thought as much. So here's an in depth timeline of the Beyonce and Jay Z cheating rumours for you. Everything's going great for the couple until…. But last year, biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli claimed that these rumours were faked in order to drum up interest in Rihanna. September Beyonce releases her second solo album, B'Day , which features two songs about cheating: Resentment and Ring The Alarm , which is allegedly about Rih. April Beyonce and Jay-Z get married. How lovely. January Beyonce and Jay-Z welcome their first child, a daughter named Blue Ivy. Also lovely. Everything is awesome for one whole year until January , when we hear rumblings of an affair between Jay-Z and his new Roc Nation artist Rita Ora. February Nothing major happens in that, but there is plenty of footage of her looking very much in love with her husband. Doth the lady protest too much? Bey and Jay celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary. June She refuses to give it to him out of respect for Beyonce, apparently. November She soon takes to Twitter to deny that anything inappropriate happened. But rumours still start to circulate that Bey and Jay are close to divorce and are even planning on going on a trial separation. But ignore all that, because December rolls by, and the couple couldn't be happier, if Beyonce's Instagram is anything to go by. She posts a bunch of lovey-dovey photos of them celebrating New Year's Eve in Miami. Rita appears on The Breakfast Club and shuts down the hosts when they bring up the affair rumours, saying: "Don't disrespect Beyonce. Of course you do. Well apparently that was all over Jay-Z's apparent affair with Rachel Roy — the ex-wife of his ex-business partner and best friend, Dame Dash. Two days later, Beyonce, Jay-Z and Solange release a statement that doesn't really explain anything…. But the most important thing is that our family has worked through it. Jay and Solange each assume their share of responsibility for what has occurred. They both acknowledge their role in this private matter that has played out in the public. They both have apologized to each other and we have moved forward as a united family. At the end of the day families have problems and we're no different. We love each other and above all we are family. We've put this behind us and hope everyone else will do the same. As the couple's joint tour, On The Run , kicks off, so do the rumours. Apparently they're fighting constantly backstage, and are definitely heading for divorce. Casey denies this. July Rumours of divorce are going ten to the dozen, and things aren't helped when Beyonce performs Resentment and changes the lyrics, "Been ridin' with you for six years", to say "12 years", which just so happens to be the length of her relationship with Jay-Z. Very interesting. August Beyonce's surname is Carter, remember? Then in March , they're arguing in public again. May The couple attend the Met Gala together — the very same place where Solange kicked off a year earlier. Things seem all right for a bit — bar a few divorce rumours rearing their ugly heads up here or there — until April , when Beyonce releases her sixth album Lemonade, which features a number of lyrics that seem to be about Jay-Z's infidelity. That's when we start hearing from Rachel Roy remember her from May ? People start speculating that the lyrics, "He better call Becky with the good hair", are about Rachel despite her not actually being called 'Becky'…. Rachel hits back by tweeting: "I respect love, marriages, families and strength. What shouldn't be tolerated by anyone, no matter what, is bullying, of any kind. But forget about Rachel now. Apparently 'Becky' is actually Rita. Was the singer dropping a hint when she posed in a bra with lemons on it just days before Lemonade ' s release, and wore a necklace with the letter 'J' on it er, Jay-Z? She didn't help matters by taking to Instagram today to post a poster for the film, Ash Wednesday, which just so happens to be about a wealthy woman whose husband couldn't care less about her. Interesting timing there, Rita…. Jay-Z releases his new album , which features a collaboration with Bey called Family Feud, which features lyrics that seem to prove that he did indeed cheat on her. November Jay-Z speaks openly about cheating on Beyonce. Dean Baquet from T magazine asked Jay-Z how he and Beyonce first revealed to each other that they were making "very confessional, open albums" about their relationship, he replied: "Again, it didn't — it didn't happen in that way. It happened — we were using our art almost like a therapy session. And we started making music together. So her album came out as opposed to the joint album that we were working on. Um, we still have a lot of that music. And this is what it became. There was never a point where it was like, 'I'm making this album. The rapper continued that though they were "both very, very uncomfortable" reacting to the lyrics and messages in parts of each other's work, "the best place is right in the middle of the pain. And it was uncomfortable. And we had a lot of conversations. You know. And, you know, at the end of the day we really have a healthy respect for one another's craft. I think she's amazing. Jay-Z then went on to open up about his infidelity properly for the first time, touching on why he and Bey decided to work through their family troubles and reconcile, rather than split up. The hardest thing is seeing pain on someone's face that you caused, and then have to deal with yourself," he said. You don't want to look inside yourself. And so you walk away. April Jay-Z opens up about cheating on Beyonce to David Letterman; specifically how he worked on himself after he cheated. He's working to change that for himself. We did the hard work of going to therapy and you know, we love each other, right? So we really put in the work. So there you have it. Now excuse us, we're off for a lie down and a nice, cold glass of lemonade. On second thoughts, think we'll have a Coke…. Follow Anna on Twitter. Like this? Come and check us out on Snapchat Discover. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. Why Kourtney and Travis don't live together. Rihanna's thigh-high slit dress is epic. The best things to watch on Netflix this October. Kate felt "nervous" to talk about "mum-guilt". How unhealthy are your drinking habits really? Getty Images. Let's start from the beginning, shall we? Everything's going great for the couple until… Rihanna and Jay-Z Getty Images. This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Bey and Jay's wedding Instagram. Jay-Z and Rita Getty Images. Casey Cohen Getty Images. Rachel Roy Getty Images. Rita Ora Snapchat. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. 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How did Michael Jackson get away with it for so long? The 'Wacko Jacko' persona was a deliberate ruse to cover a much darker truth, says Jacques Peretti as he examines his own complicity in letting the pop star off the hook.

If you keep wondering what to think of Michael Jackson's complicated legacy - is it OK to play Billie Jean at a party? Do you have to switch radio stations if Smooth Criminal comes on? - imagine how Jacques Peretti feels. He has made three films about the pop icon in the past 15 years and in this, his fourth, he aimed to build the fullest picture yet. But how many of us are brave enough to confront that picture?

The Real Michael Jackson (BBC Two) comes just over a year after the broadcast of HBO/Channel 4's Leaving Neverland, a gruelling, four-hour documentary built around the detailed accounts of two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who say they were sexually abused by Jackson as children.

The Real Michael Jackson has much more in common with Louis Theroux's 2016 Savile film, in which the newly somber documentarian confronted his own journalistic failures and berated himself for not doing more to tackle a high-profile abuser who got away with it for so long. Didn't Jackson also "hide in plain sight"?

Peretti makes a compelling case that the pop star deliberately cultivated that 'Wacko Jacko' persona of the late 80s - Bubbles the chimp, the oxygen chamber, the Elephant Man bones - to provide cover for a truth that was much darker.

Savile's crimes were not on the same global scale. Peretti details the "Jackson machine", that small army of private investigators, expensive lawyers and fixers, which swung into gear during his trials, or whenever his reputation was threatened. It is an MO reminiscent of Harvey Weinstein or Jeffrey Epstein. Yet none of these other men had anything like Jackson's huge international fanbase, which, until uncomfortably recently, included Peretti himself.

"Is he a pedophile? That's the question that should be asked," Peretti says ruefully as he (and we) rewatch footage of a younger Peretti interviewing Jackson's longtime manager Bob Jones (who testified against Jackson in 2005) for one of his earlier films. "And I don't ask the question. That is a failure...that is a regret of mine."

In fairness, he is far from the only Jackson-adjacent journalist with regrets for not doing more to quiz Jackson on the rumors.

Jackson's habit of occasionally emerging from his post-Thriller seclusion to attend an awards ceremony arm-in-arm with a 12-year-old, or grant exclusive access to an interview, means there is a wealth of footage to scrutinize. Diane Sawyer in 1995 and Martin Bashir in 2003 made the most headlines - even asking him about the allegations - yet it's the softballs, including Oprah Winfrey's live 1993 interview at the Neverland ranch, which are retrospectively more creepy (although, to be fair, she did at least ask him about his sexuality). In the clip, Oprah approvingly notes one of several bedrooms on the property made up for young guests: "You have to be a person who really cares about children to build that into your architecture," she says.

Could anyone watch all this, especially after Leaving Neverland, and not have profound doubts about the professed innocence of Jackson's interest in young boys? Apparently so. J Randy Taraborrelli, the celebrity biographer and Jackson's loyal friend since childhood, continues to believe in Jackson's innocence and there were a couple occasions in his interview where you might wish he had been pushed harder. Ultimately though, the non-confrontational strategy paid off in an exchange that is enormously revealing about the nature of denial.

Peretti may not always ask the right question, but he has certainly been asking them of the right people. And now, at long last, the time is also right for genuine reflection. There are astute insights here from a variety of tabloid journalists as well as Jackson's fellow survivor of 70s child stardom Donny Osmond, and Matthew Knowles, talent manager and Beyoncé's dad. These guys weren't just there, in the distorting eye of the celebrity storm, they are all too aware of the types of games celebrities played to negotiate media scrutiny.

Is it possible to continue to continue to admire, even enjoy, Jackson in light of all that we now know? A lot of people remain very invested, both emotionally and financially, in believing that the answer to this question is yes.

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hi! are there any good books about Joan or featuring her?

AHello, yes! Not a lot but the ones that exist are pretty good.

Joan: The reluctant Kennedy by Lester David

Joan was interviewed a lot for this book. It’s excellent, the only thing is that it chronicles her life only until 1974. I loved learning about her childhood and teenage years.

2. The Joan Kennedy story: Living with the Kennedys by Marcia Chellis (1985)

A tell-all published by her ex-assistant who worked for her from 1979 to 1982-1983 I think. Of course I don’t approve of the author’s sneaky ways, but it is juicy and gives an in depth insight about what was going on privately during Ted’s last campaign.

3. The Joy of Classical Music: A guide for you and your family by Joan Kennedy (1994)

This is the only book written by Joan. Unfortunately it’s not an autobiography. I would say it’s 25% biography and 75% classical music. The pics are great though: there’s one pic of her as a girl scout, one of her and her family during Christmas, etc. All the pics were posted here of course.

4. Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot by J. Randy Taraborrelli (2000)

I loooove J. Randy Taraborrelli, I’ve read a few of his books (Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe) and I really like the way he writes. He does a lot of research for his books and all of his books are real page turner. This book doesn’t disappoint, it’s excellent.

5. The Kennedy Women: The saga of an american family by Laurence Leamer (1996)

A book about allllll the Kennedy women, starting from the 1800s. This book is so well researched. Oh and it’s also 992 pages, a brick!

6. The Kennedy Wives: Triumph and Tragedy by Amber Hunt and David Batcher (2014)

This one is good, but it’s more like an overview. It’s not as in-depth as some of the other books listed here.

Happy reading and thank you for your question :)

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