In Her Sister's Shadow: An Intimate Biography of Lee Radziwill

DuBois, Diana

ISBN 10: 0316187534 / ISBN 13: 9780316187534

Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, 1995

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Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. [12], 414, [6] p. Notes on Sources. Bibliography. Index. Caroline Lee Bouvier (born March 3, 1933) is an American socialite, public relations executive, interior decorator, and former actress. She is the younger sister of the late First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and sister-in-law of President John F. Kennedy. Born in Southampton, New York, Caroline Lee Bouvier, named "Lee" after her maternal grandfather James T. Lee, is the daughter of stockbroker John Vernou Bouvier III and socialite Janet Norton Lee. Lee has been married three times. Her first marriage, in April 1953, was to Michael Canfield, a publishing executive who had been adopted as an infant by the American publisher Cass Canfield. Caroline and Canfield divorced in 1959, and the marriage was annulled in November 1962. Her second marriage, on March 19, 1959, was to the Polish prince Stanis aw Albrecht Radziwi . Their marriage ended in divorce in 1974. She worked briefly as an interior decorator, as well, in a style much influenced by her association with Mongiardino. Good in good dust jacket. DJ has some wear and soiling. Some sticker residue on front of DJ. Some spine weakness restrengthened with glue. First edition. First Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Seller Inventory # 71340

Bibliographic Details

Title: In Her Sister's Shadow: An Intimate ...

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

A portrait of a woman who lived a jealous rivalry with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, a sister who was a legend, reveals patterns of sibling competition formed in childhood that influenced her entire life

From Publishers Weekly:

Lee Bouvier Radziwill's lifelong rivalry with her older sister, the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, was intrinsic to each woman's identity and fueled their individuality, according to this perceptive, unauthorized biography. New York-based freelance journalist DuBois portrays Radziwill as a desperately insecure, manipulative yet vulnerable woman whose descent into alcoholism multiplied her woes and left her children, Anthony and Tina, adrift and forlorn. Her recovery was assisted by third husband Herbert Ross, the Hollywood director, whom she wed in 1988 after two unhappy marriages-first to drunken homebody Michael Canfield, adopted son of publisher Cass Canfield, and next to Polish emigre prince Stanislas Radziwill, a London real estate mogul with whom, she belatedly discovered, she had little in common. DuBois traces her subject's insecurity to her divorcing parents-the alcoholic, philandering Wall Street stockbroker John Bouvier III and the ambitious, dominant Janet Norton Lee-who used their daughters as instruments of revenge in a bitter, ongoing feud. DuBois nicely sets Lee Radziwill's social whirl with Rudolf Nureyev, Andy Warhol, Truman Capote and Diana Vreeland against a disconcerting portrait of a "soul of bluff and illusion." Photos not seen by PW.
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