Of Diamonds and Diplomats: An Autobiography of a Happy Life by Letitia Baldridge (HQ564)

Published 1968: Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Inscribed by the Author and a Friend on the First Free Page

Original pictorial covers sealed in protective wraps. 337 very clean and bright pages. Slight shelf wear on dust jacket. (HQ564)

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Ms. Baldrige was Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis's social secretary in the Camelot years. Fascinating read into the behind the scenes of life in the White House.

Reviews:
Amusing memoir by Letitia Baldrige, who served as Social Secretary at both the French and Italian embassies, public relations director at Tiffany's in New York, and then the social secretary for Jacqueline Kennedy during the JFK White House years. When this book came out in 1968, Ms. Baldrige was still working for the Kennedy family, at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. She wrote a considerably more frank book about the famous people in her life much later on, but this one is still very entertaining.

Reviews:
I really enjoyed this earlier autobiography by Letitia Baldrige. It was fun to compare the similarities and differences with her much later published memoir. In this book in particular, Baldrige seemed to go into more detail about her time working in The White House. I highly recommend both books for a fascinating glimpse of a time long passed.

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