A Very Private Woman

By Nina Burleigh

Subjects: Death and burial, Biography, Biography & Autobiography, Presidents, Investigation, Relations with women, Case studies, Nonfiction, Washington (d.c.), biography, Kennedy, john f. (john fitzgerald), 1917-1963, Murder, united states, Murder, New York Times reviewed, Presidents, united states, paramours, Mistresses, Paramours, Biographie

Description: In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary Meyer was a secret mistress of President John F. Kennedy, whom she had known since private school days, and after her death, reports that she had kept a diary set off a tense search by her brother-in-law, newsman Ben Bradlee, and CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton. But the only suspect in her murder was acquitted, and today her life and death are still a source of intense speculation, as Nina Burleigh reveals in her widely praised book, the first to examine this haunting story.From the Trade Paperback edition.