Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Nancy Tuckerman were friends over seven decades.

Nancy almost never talked to people writing books about Jackie. She made an exception for me because I was working with her former colleagues. She and I met for the first time at the Red Lion Inn on a cold day in February. She was wearing a plain brown sweater and hiding behind a newspaper. At first she was stiff with me. But at lunch the young waiter poured her a cold cup of coffee. When he stepped away we both laughed That was how we began a friendlier and franker conversation that lasted ten years.

This is a revised and expanded version of my article "Inside Jackie O's Longest, Most Complicated Friendship," VANITY FAIR, July 2019. Nancy's insights about Jackie are on every page, but this is also the story of Nancy Tuckerman herself. As I'm telling the story, it's sometimes about me too.

Reviews of my former book, READING JACKIE (Nan Talese/Doubleday, 2010).

"William Kuhn reveals the Jackie I knew as a person and professional: serious, smart, intuitive about ideas and aesthetics, but also down to earth." Bill Moyers

"Unexpectedly and intelligently dishy" Boston Globe

"Absorbing... fascinating... A treat for bibliophiles and Jackiephiles--and especially for whom those interests overlap" Richmond Times-Dispatch

"Provides insights that would never have been available to outsiders." Buffalo News

"Jackie was far more than just a socialite in an office with a drop-dead Rolodex." Los Angeles Times

"A fascinating look at the vanities of New York publishing in the late twentieth century" San Francisco Chronicle

"Onassis was much more intellectual and thoughtful than many portrayals in the media suggested." Town and Country

"[T]his book was especially endearing because I love the woman Jackie became in later years." rlmb via Amazon.com

"William Kuhn has done a fine job capturing the spirit of Jackie." LMcPell via Amazon.com

"Just when you think you've read all there is to read about Jackie, you find something new and wonderful!" Mari via Goodreads.com

"As a fan of all things Jackie--this biography in books did not disappoint. As a writer, editor, wife, mother, and fan of reading, I found the iconic woman surprisingly relatable." Mary Hackett via Goodreads.com

"She was very insular, keeping to herself all the agonies of her life. This is certainly not another trite, trashy book full of gossip about Jackie and the Kennedys. I think Kuhn is really able to bring out the dignity of Jackie in a very intelligent, sensitive, respectful manner." Linda via Goodreads.com

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