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A Very Private Woman
The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
by Nina Burleigh
ISBN: 0553106295
ISBN-13: 9780553106299
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
This riveting investigation of the unsolved murder of alleged JFK mistress Mary Meyer creates a respectful portrait of an intriguing woman. Against the backdrop of a 1950s and '60s America populated by double-dealing CIA agents, the Eastern social elite, and bored housewives, Meyer is portrayed as a Washington socialite with bohemian roots, who tried LSD with Timothy Leary and smoked marijuana with JFK. The author alleges that Meyer's unsatisfactory marriage to an influential CIA official drove her to pursue other men. As the author exposes the secrets surrounding Meyer's life and death, she unearths more questions than answers.
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"Bad news for Kennedy conspiracy connoisseurs. The murder of JFK mistress Mary Pinchot Meyer may not be so mysterious after all, according to a new book....Burleigh says that prosecutors, who claimed that Meyer was killed in the course of a bungled mugging, were caught off-guard by a sharp defense lawyer. What's more, in the years since Crump's acquittal, the book contends that he has been charged with rape, assault with a deadly weapon, grand larceny and numerous instances of arson." -- George Rush
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
Published date: 1998
Size: 6.5 x 9.75 inches
Weight: 1.45 pounds
Pages: 356
Publisher's Notes
One of the enduring mysteries of recent decades was the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer, the well-born, beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a CIA official, who was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath in 1964. Mary Meyer was a mistress of JFK, and after her death, news that she had kept a diary set off a tense search for the document by CIA spymaster James Jesus Angelton as well as Marys brother-in-law, journalist Ben Bradlee. But the crime was never solved, and today her life and death are still a source of fascination, as Nina Burleigh will reveal in a book that looks at a heady, sometimes glamorous period in the nation's capitol, and at a woman who embodied the grace and turbulence of her times.
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A Very Private Woman : The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
Burleigh, Nina
New York: Bantam Books, 1998 Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (23.95). No chips or tears. No remainder mark. No owner's name or bookplate. True crime. From the Dust Jacket: "Her husband was a top CIA official. Her lover was the president of the United States. And three decades after her death, her murder is unsolved... Mary Pinchot Meyer was found shot to death on a wooded Georgetown towpath less than a year after President John F. Kennedy's assassination... Her marriage in ruins, she became the president's lover and trusted companion, the woman JFK chose to be with on the night after Marilyn Monroe's body was discovered." Chapter notes. Index First Printing of the First Edition . Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 356pp + 8 pages of photos. ( more information)
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A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
Burleigh, Nina
New York, Toronto, London: Bantam Books, 1998. Hard Cover. VG/VG. 1st. pp. 356, index, notes, illus., rubbing, wear on top and bottom spine, edges lightly soiled, dj: rubbing, creasing along top edge. F. Hardcover. ( more information)
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A VERY PRIVATE WOMAN (The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer)
Burleigh, Nina
New York: Bantam Books, 1998. In 1964, a year after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the President's mistress and wife of a CIA executive, was shot and killed on a wooded Georgetown towpath in what remains an unsolved murder; First Printing of the First Edition; Fine in Fine dustjacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. ( more information)
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A Very Private Woman: The Life And Unsolved Murder Of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
BURLEIGH, NINA
Bantam Books, New York: 1998. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. In this compellingly told book about a life, a murder and a trial Nina Burleigh has captured both the grace and the darker turbulence of a heady, glamorous woman seeking to live a very private life. Includes an Index. "Nina Burleigh has dissected Washington's most intriguing murder mystery and produced a captivating biography, a thriller, and an insightful portrait of Georgetown in its golden presidential age." - Christopher Ogden, author of Life of the Party: The Biography of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman ISBN: 0553106295. ( more information)
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Bantam, 1998. 356pp, index, plus 8 glossy photo-pages. Her husband was a top CIA official, her lover was the president of the United States, but she was found shot to death in a wooded area of Georgetown less than a year after JFK was assassinated and her murder remains officially unsolved...until now. Unmarked. First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 9" Tall. Price Intact. ( more information)
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A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
Burleigh, Nina
good, good Bantam Books New York 1998 First 25 cm, 356, illus., notes, index, red pencil note and marginal underlining on p. 23, DJ somewhat soiled Mary Pinchot Meyer, a former CIA wife and John F. Kennedy's mistress, was found shot to death on a Georgetown towpath less than a year after Kennedy's assassination. ( more information)
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