A Very Private Woman

Nina Burleigh's articles have appeared in Time, The Washington Post,The Chicago Tribune, and New York Magazine. She lives in New York.

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Title of ebook: A Very Private Woman
ISBN: 9780307574176
parent-ISBN: 9780553380514
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Internet download file size: 3323 kb
Pages: 380
Published: 10-2009
Released online for download: 10-28-2009
Author of eBook: Burleigh, Nina

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A Very Private Woman

The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer

Introduction

Anyone wanting to write about a member of the silent generation of women that mothered the baby boom and married the cold warriors confronts a peculiar obstacle: Many of these women believe their lives were utterly unremarkable. The cold war wives review years spent raising children and keeping house, arranging dinner parties for dignitaries, making art, or getting jobs. They find their personal histories bland compared to their husbands', men with war wounds on their bodies and secrets of state in their brains, men whose turf ranged from Havana to Moscow and Paris to Bucharest, and whose work altered world history.

When the woman in question had an affair with a married president of the United States and then died violently, the obstacle of humility is compounded by embarrassment and sorrow. Mary Pinchot Meyer's sister and closest friend say they burned her diary, and a CIA official destroyed her other papers, obliterating her voice from history. Her closest surviving friends made an informal pact not to discuss her. Many people who will talk are persuaded-for reasons that have more to do with Mary's access to powerful men and with ... read full excerpt from A Very Private Woman ebook

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