Clint Hill
&
Lisa McCubbin Hill
RELEASE DATE: Oct. 11, 2022
A follow-up to the bestselling Mrs. Kennedy and Me.
Teaming up once more along with his co-author (now spouse) on earlier books, Hill, a distinguished former Secret Service agent, remembers his days touring the world as Jacqueline Kennedy’s trusted bodyguard. After John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, Hill obtained a medal for valor in defending the president and his spouse, Jackie, from Lee Harvey Oswald’s bullets. Later, the medal vanished together with pictures of the creator’s travels with Mrs. Kennedy as a Secret Service bodyguard. Hill recounts how his seek for an previous award he by no means needed yielded an excellent larger treasure: forgotten photographs of his globe-trotting adventures with the primary girl. The images—some in coloration, some in black and white—instantly transported the bewitched creator again to the glittering heyday of Camelot. Photos of Jackie in Paris introduced recollections of the president’s first main state tour to France, in 1961, the place the in any other case very personal first girl was “the middle of all consideration.” Quite a few different diplomatic journeys adopted—to England, Greece, India, Pakistan, and throughout South America. All the things Jackie did, from visiting ruined temples to having lunch with Queen Elizabeth, was headline information. Hill dutifully protected her from gawkers and paparazzi not solely on public events, but in addition extra personal ones akin to household retreats to the Amalfi Coast and the Kennedys’ nation dwelling in Middleburg, Virginia. In three brief years, the never-romantic bond between the 2 deepened to a spot “past friendship” through which “we may talk with one another with a glance or a nod….She knew that I might do no matter she requested—whether or not it was a part of my job as a Secret Service agent or not.” Replete with unseen personal pictures and anecdotes of a singular relationship, the ebook will attraction principally to American historians but in addition anybody within the personal world inhabited by one of the crucial beguiling however enigmatic first women in American historical past.
A fond remembrance of a glamorous, bygone period.
Pub Date: Oct. 11, 2022
ISBN: 978-1-982181-11-6
Web page Depend: 304
Writer: Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster
Evaluation Posted On-line: July 20, 2022
Kirkus Opinions Situation: Aug. 15, 2022
Did you want this ebook?