A Lady, First: My Life in the Kennedy White House and the American Embassies of Paris and Rome

by Baldrige, Letitia

First edition

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Book desription: New York, New York, U.S.A.:: Viking Press,, 2001.. First edition. Hard Back. Very Good in Near Fine dj. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 292 pages plus 16 pages black & white photos. The book is NEAR FINE/AS NEW (unread) with remainder mark to bottom block. The dust jacket is NEAR FINE with two small red marks on spine and minor wear. NOT price-clipped. Comes with BRODART jacket cover. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor..and other curious subjects. "LETITIA BALDRIGE has lived a life that most of us only dream about. - In her memoir, A Lady; First, she shares her stories about life as a tenacious and successful woman in some of the most exciting places in the world after World War II, at the height of America's international glory. As young women studying at Vassar, Letitia's schoolmates were concerned with finding husbands. Letitia wanted to go to Paris. When she was told only men could get overseas diplomatic jobs, she became even more determined and landed a coveted position in the American Embassy of Paris. There she quickly learned the dos and don'ts of diplomacy while partaking in the city's lively postwar social scene - along with Jackie Bouvier, Marlene Dietrich, and Elizabeth Taylor. These experiences led to the exciting job of working for Clare Boothe Luce at the American Embassy in Rome in the early 1950s. Back in the United States, as the first woman executive for Tiffany & Co., Letitia Baldrige was a trailblazer in the new field of public relations, appealing to the whims and tastes of the rich and famous, and those that aspired to be. Yet it was her role as the first lady's social secretary in the Kennedy White House that proved to be her most notable and challenging. She has been privileged to lead a glamorous, high-spirited life, and has witnessed some of the pivotal events of her time: the hilarity of a young Jackie Kennedy's antics on her foreign diplomatic visits, the terror of the Cuban missile crisis, the heartbreak of President Kennedy's funeral. Stylish, chic, and always polite, Letitia Baldrige manages to be a feminist and a lady at the same time. As the founder of Letitia Baldrige Enterprises, one of the first companies in the world to be run by a female CEO, and the author of countless books and articles about etiquette and protocol, she continues to be a role model and an inspiration to women across the country and around the world.

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