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...little girl," terrified of a snake, with Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, then the bold horsewoman with Pakistan's leader, Ayub Khan, leaving both men charmed. Back in the U.S., her elegant parties, renovation of the White House and patronage of the arts all helped "lend prestige to her husband's presidency." Once Kennedy regained his footing after the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, however, Jackie was again sidelined...
What the American public likes in its First Lady--a warm, domestic woman strong enough to support her husband in his demanding work but without the initiative to actually participate in it--doesn't offer much to the serious biographer. Jacqueline Kennedy, who brought youthful chic to the White House but didn't test any of the limits of her role, has inspired dozens of books in which the photographs often seem more important than the text. With Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years (Free Press; 406 pages; $25), Barbara Leaming seeks to correct the balance, arguing...
...female essayists. She first came to national prominence in 1968 with the publication of Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a compilation of writings about the 1960s. Born in 1934 in Sacramento, Calif., Didion now writes novels, columns and essays from her home in New York City, where she lives with her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne. In her warm, witty and rich manner, she discussed her latest book, Political Fictions, the state of politics in America, the terrorist incident of Sept. 11 and the process of writing...
...picture, our situation is a lot better," says Maria Meza, 37, a travel agent who has been at Montrose for six years. To handle the pay cut, she has scaled back her weekly housecleaning service to every other week and eats out less often with her husband and three children...
...friends didn't always get it. But times have changed. Earlier this year, Cardiff, 44, who grew up on a farm in Brussels, Ont., represented Canada at the Venice Biennale with a sound-and-film installation that she produced with her husband George Bures Miller. Next week a mid-career survey of her work opens at P.S. 1, a New York City museum affiliated with the Museum of Modern Art. "It's amazing," she says, "what 10 years will do to public understanding of what...