. >> coming up, william coon recalls the publishing career of jacqueline kennedy onassis.mong this is relationships and the book on the assassination of john lennon and a -- >> i want to begin by telling you what a nosey biographer when invited to your house for the first time. you may not know me very well, but off me a cup of coffee or tee or a glass of wine and you go in the kitchen to get it for me, and while you're out of the room, i look at your book shelf, raise your hand if you've done such a thing yourself? [laughter] all right, there's others in the room. i think the point is that the collection of books tell you something important about a person and possibly something that person might not be willing it -- to tell you right away themselves, and the same is true of jacqueline kennedy onassis. you can tell a lot about her and about the 100 books she brought into print when she was an editor at viking and double day. if any, editor's books are even more indicative of her personality because they include works that she's selected, she's invested her time in, and he

and it's true of jacqueline kennedy onassis. and think she may not have been willing to tell you herself about the 100 books she brought into print when she was an editor first of viking and then at doubleday for the last 20 years of her life, from 1975 to 1994. if anything, editors books are more indicative of her personality because they include what she has selected, invested time and. so what i'd like to do is tell you a story of those 100 books in a little bit about how they connect to her life in who she was. the first -- there are two things i'd like to say about jackie's personality, which i think you may not know about. and the first is that she was the reader. among her earliest memories was being sent out to her mother's headroom to take a nap when she was a child and getting out of the bag, taking down one of her mother's books from the bookshelf and going over to the window seat or an hour and reading the book instead of taking them out. and she told that story in a kind of essay she wrote for a competition to go in

and the same is true of jacqueline kennedy onassis. you can tell a lot about her and a lot she may not have been willing to tell you herself about the hundred books she brought into print when she was an editor first at viking, and then at doubleday. for the last 20 year of her life, from about 1975 until when she died in 1994. if anything, an editor's books are even more indicative of her personality pause they -- because they include work that she's selected, she's investigated her time in, and -- invested her time in, and she's helped to bring to publication. so what i'd like to do is tell you the story of those 100 books and a little bit about how they can connect to her life and who she was. the first -- there are two things that i'd like to say about jackie's personality which i think you may not, may not know about. and the first is that she was a reader. among her earliest memories was being sent up to her mother's bedroom to take a nap when she was a child and getting out of the bed, taking down one of her mother's books from