The reviews are beginning to come in. Here's what the notoriously critical Publishers Weekly writes about Mrs. Kennedy and Me.
Mrs. Kennedy and Me:
An Intimate Memoir
An Intimate Memoir
In November 1960, Hill, who had been on President Eisenhower’s Secret
Service detail, wasn’t looking forward to his new assignment—which he
viewed as a demotion—of protecting Jacqueline Kennedy. But a
disappointed Hill soon realized he was actually serving the president
“by protecting the things that were most important to him,
personally—his wife and his children.” Hill was completely won over by
the first lady’s spontaneity, curiosity, sincerity, and joie de vivre.
He accompanied her to Greece twice; on the first trip, in 1961, he was
under strict if baffling instructions from JFK to keep his wife away
from Aristotle Onassis. Hill was with Mrs. Kennedy on a Virginia hunt
where she flew headfirst over her horse and a rail fence, through the
death of infant Patrick and in Dallas when the president was
assassinated. Hill is close-mouthed about JFK’s infidelities. His book
is most valuable for his perceptive recall of the daily routine and
problems faced by the Secret Service detail. This is a worshipful,
competent insider’s glimpse of a matchless first lady whose diplomatic
skills and glamour enabled her to do the unthinkable: briefly wrest the
Mona Lisa from France. Photos. (Apr.)
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