The new book about Jackie Kennedy has debuted today, its official release date, at the pole position on two major bestseller lists: Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The book, aptly, if not creatively, titled Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy, quickly zoomed to the top after several new channels acquired early copies from bookstores that broke the embargo that was supposed to protect the exclusivity for ABC News’ Jacqueline Kennedy: In Her Own Words with Diane Sawyer.
To their dismay, and to the delight of age-old and new-gen fans of the Kennedy family, news of secret audio recordings and snippets of the Jackie Kennedy interviews with famed historian Arthur Schlesinger were already out, which may have helped the book along on its phenomenal debut. Originally, Mrs. Kennedy had stipulated that the interviews only be released in the year 2044, or 50 years after her death in 1994, but her only surviving child, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, broke the seal, reportedly to counter the negative picturization of her family in the miniseries The Kennedys, which ultimately sported ten Emmy nominations.
Sales of the book should help the production speed for Jackie, a movie that has been in the pipeline for a while now. The film was to originally cast Rachel Weisz as the elegant Jackie Kennedy, but little has been publicized about the movie since it hit the 2010 Black List of unproduced films in Hollywood.
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