so it's surprising to find her backing diana vreeland, one-time editor of "vogue "and laterally special curator of the costume group at the metropolitan museum of art. may lin monroe -- marilyn monroe and maria callas with iowa spot l o onassis. in backing diana to do this book which was called "allure, "and it came out in 1980, jackie seemed to be able to rise above her own history with these women and to join vreeland in saying both these women have indelible allure, attraction and appeal. and it seems to me one of the things which is, which attracted me to jackie, which attracted me to her as an editor that she separated her job as an editor from what kind of personal history she might have had with these women. she also encouraged barbara chase riboud to write a book on sally hemings, the slave misstress of thomas jefferson. she commissioned elizabeth cook to write "raven's bride," a normal about a -- novel about a woman who had a marriage that lasted only a few weeks to sam houston which broke up, probably, because of his infidelity and spent the rest of her time in seclusion tryin

vreeland introduced her to deborah turbo and they did a book of weird stage fashion photographs, including monkeys and death leaves and scantily clad models on the back stairs of their site called unseen versailles. louis often clark wrote the introduction to the book and he remembered that i had of the research division, calling this book is all going to be about soft pornography. she said here is her own number. give her a call. and that was the end of that trouble. i like this photograph because they'd look like that too ethereal beauties are to determine women who want to bring their book out. jackie also contributed to the production of this book in the southern photographer, william eggleston, a major artist and art photography, but also a bizarre figure who was a gun enthusiast. he is known about photography aficionados for being the first to bring color to art photography. but interestingly in this book, edelstein included pictures of the building in dallas in which lee harvey oswald had stayed to take aim at jfk. jackie didn't flinch. she allowed the photograph to go ahead and it