KENNEDY, Jacqueline (1929-1994), First Lady . Two autograph letters signed ("Jacqueline Kennedy") to James MacGregor Burns, Hyannisport, Massachusetts, [4 November 1959] and [15 November 1959]. Together 5 pages, folio and 8vo, with original envelope (one signed "Mrs. John F. Kennedy") fine condition . In a cloth slipcase.
KENNEDY, Jacqueline (1929-1994), First Lady . Two autograph letters signed ("Jacqueline Kennedy") to James MacGregor Burns, Hyannisport, Massachusetts, [4 November 1959] and [15 November 1959]. Together 5 pages, folio and 8vo, with original envelope (one signed "Mrs. John F. Kennedy") fine condition . In a cloth slipcase. "JACK AND HIS FATHER ARE AS DIFFERENT AS DAY AND NIGHT. EACH SPEAKS FOR A DIFFERENT GENERATION. THERE IS OR WAS NO PUPPET-SVENGALI RELATIONSHIP" "IS HE TO BE JUST ANOTHER SOCIOLOGICAL CASE HISTORY? IRISH CATHOLIC, NEWLY-RICH, HARVARD EDUCATED..." One of the most powerful and revealing Jacqueline Kennedy letters to ever appear at auction, as she writes with polite, yet barely restrained anger, at how Burns has depicted JFK in his forthcoming book, John F. Kennedy, A Political Profile . "I think you underestimate him," she writes, stressing that she is writing solely on her own initiative and "without Jack's knowledge, as he is out in California for a week...Jack is a strong and self-sufficient person. If we could just lay to rest those bromides about Dad and Brother Joe. Let me assure you that no matter how many older brothers and fathers my husband had had, he would have been what he is today, or the equivalent in another field. There would have been 'the complete development of all faculties along lines of excellence,'" she writes, quoting one of JFK's favorite mottos. "The desire and the drive were always there." She thinks Burns depicts "a blundering weakling...It seems to me you lay too much stress on my husband's health. He now has everyone who tries to keep up with him--me, Ted Sorenson, Steve Smith dropping like flies. We can't stand his pace." As for the impact of Joseph Kennedy Sr. on his son, "Jack and his father are as different as day and night. Each speaks for a different generation. There is or was no puppet-Svengali relationship...Your book makes Jack sound as if he wasn't his own master--and he always was." "I see, every succeeding week I am married to him, that he has what may be the single most important quality for a leader--an imperturbable self-confidence and sureness of his powers...What other candidate has talked to Chamberlain, Baldwin, Churchill, Laski in his twenties, known De Lattre, Nehru, Ben Gurion in his thirties, been to Russia in Stalin's day, has friends and colleagues in the French and English parliaments." In the second letter she writes much less combatively: "It was so kind of you to take it as you did, and not be really irritated at my interfering, and I do appreciate the time and trouble you must have taken with your lengthy answer. I showed it to Jack and he said the same thing. Now I will find it very hard to wait patiently until the book comes out..." Together 2 items .
KENNEDY, Jacqueline (1929-1994), First Lady . Two autograph letters signed ("Jacqueline Kennedy") to James MacGregor Burns, Hyannisport, Massachusetts, [4 November 1959] and [15 November 1959]. Together 5 pages, folio and 8vo, with original envelope (one signed "Mrs. John F. Kennedy") fine condition . In a cloth slipcase.
KENNEDY, Jacqueline (1929-1994), First Lady . Two autograph letters signed ("Jacqueline Kennedy") to James MacGregor Burns, Hyannisport, Massachusetts, [4 November 1959] and [15 November 1959]. Together 5 pages, folio and 8vo, with original envelope (one signed "Mrs. John F. Kennedy") fine condition . In a cloth slipcase. "JACK AND HIS FATHER ARE AS DIFFERENT AS DAY AND NIGHT. EACH SPEAKS FOR A DIFFERENT GENERATION. THERE IS OR WAS NO PUPPET-SVENGALI RELATIONSHIP" "IS HE TO BE JUST ANOTHER SOCIOLOGICAL CASE HISTORY? IRISH CATHOLIC, NEWLY-RICH, HARVARD EDUCATED..." One of the most powerful and revealing Jacqueline Kennedy letters to ever appear at auction, as she writes with polite, yet barely restrained anger, at how Burns has depicted JFK in his forthcoming book, John F. Kennedy, A Political Profile . "I think you underestimate him," she writes, stressing that she is writing solely on her own initiative and "without Jack's knowledge, as he is out in California for a week...Jack is a strong and self-sufficient person. If we could just lay to rest those bromides about Dad and Brother Joe. Let me assure you that no matter how many older brothers and fathers my husband had had, he would have been what he is today, or the equivalent in another field. There would have been 'the complete development of all faculties along lines of excellence,'" she writes, quoting one of JFK's favorite mottos. "The desire and the drive were always there." She thinks Burns depicts "a blundering weakling...It seems to me you lay too much stress on my husband's health. He now has everyone who tries to keep up with him--me, Ted Sorenson, Steve Smith dropping like flies. We can't stand his pace." As for the impact of Joseph Kennedy Sr. on his son, "Jack and his father are as different as day and night. Each speaks for a different generation. There is or was no puppet-Svengali relationship...Your book makes Jack sound as if he wasn't his own master--and he always was." "I see, every succeeding week I am married to him, that he has what may be the single most important quality for a leader--an imperturbable self-confidence and sureness of his powers...What other candidate has talked to Chamberlain, Baldwin, Churchill, Laski in his twenties, known De Lattre, Nehru, Ben Gurion in his thirties, been to Russia in Stalin's day, has friends and colleagues in the French and English parliaments." In the second letter she writes much less combatively: "It was so kind of you to take it as you did, and not be really irritated at my interfering, and I do appreciate the time and trouble you must have taken with your lengthy answer. I showed it to Jack and he said the same thing. Now I will find it very hard to wait patiently until the book comes out..." Together 2 items .
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