Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting an Icon

Jackie Under My Skin is a passionate investigation of the ways Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis transformed Americas definition of celebrity identity and style. In a gallery of fantasies and tableaux Wayne Koestenbaum explains the late first ladys hold on Americans by examining the myths and metaphors that weve attached to her. An exuberant paean to a great star Jackie Under My Skin is also a meditation on fame mortality and the difficulty of defining desire.