Jackie Under My Skin is a passionate investigation of the ways Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis transformed America''s definition of celebrity identity and style. In a gallery of fantasies and tableaux Wayne Koestenbaum explains the late first lady''s hold on Americans by examining the myths and metaphors that we''ve 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.