Dawn Tripp — Jackie - with Maureen Dowd

<p><strong> </strong>When Jackie meets the charismatic congressman Jack Kennedy in Georgetown, she is twenty-one and dreaming of France. She has won an internship at <em>Vogue</em>. Kennedy, she thinks, is not her kind of adventure: &quot;Too American. Too good-looking. Too boy.&quot; Yet she is drawn to his mind, his humor, his drive. The chemistry between them ignites. During the White House years, the love between two independent people deepens. Then, a motorcade in Dallas: &quot;Three and a half seconds--that's all it was--a slivered instant between the first shot, which missed the car, and the second, which did not. . . . A hypnotic burst of sunlight off her bracelet as she waved.&quot;</p><p>This vivid, exquisitely written novel is at once a captivating work of the imagination and a window into the world of a woman who led many lives: Jackie, Jacks, Jacqueline, Miss Bouvier, Mrs. Kennedy, Jackie O.</p><p><br /></p><p>PURCHASE BOOK HERE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9780812997217?ic_referral=E789l_N-r1XmeEIibV-J10wBWcK5Zb3yxb_d2jfZZTAwM4J9p1AC0NZdOEUjqqBOmqjDwKCXp0ABe8qcdwca0gKOhyfkIJe62koHIBchZVSWPJe0sak8a4YpZi3_fVf8_bgTHKA</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Dawn Tripp</strong> is the author of the novel <em>Georgia, </em>which was a national bestseller, a finalist for the New England Book Award, and the winner of the Mary Lynn Kotz Award for Art in Literature. She is the author of three previous novels: <em>Game of Secrets</em>, <em>Moon Tide, </em>and <em>The Season of Open Water, </em>which won the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction. Her poems and essays have appeared in the <em>Virginia Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, AGNI, Conjunctions, </em>and NPR, among others. Tripp lives in Massachusetts with her sons.</p><p>Tripp is in conversation with <strong>Mareen Dowd</strong>. Dowd is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the <em>New York Times </em>and author of <em>Notorious</em>. She is known for her sharp and incisive commentary on politics and culture. She is the author of three additional bestselling books: <em>Bushworld, Are Men Necessary?</em>, and <em>The Year of Voting Dangerously</em>. She lives in Washington, DC.</p><p>*recorded 6/20/2025</p>