After reading Mrs. Kennedy and Me, this fall's Campus Read selection, you may be curious and want to find out more about Jackie Kennedy.

Check out this eBook from the BSC Library:

Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books by William Kuhn
 

 

"Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades of her life as an editor at Viking and Doubleday ...  Jackie is remembered today for her marriages to JFK and to Aristotle Onassis, but her real legacy is the books that reveal the tastes, recollections, and passions of an independent woman."

 

Find it in the Beyond Library Walls Digital Collection

An invitation ...

 

Please join us to talk about Clint Hill’s memoir, Mrs. Kennedy and Me, on Monday, October 7, at 3 p.m. in Library 116. 
 

This discussion will be a chance to share your initial impressions of the book as well as your ideas for possible classroom assignments and activities, whatever the discipline.   Even if you 're not a teacher, we would love to hear your ideas.

 

Michael R. Tomanek, co-chair of the Campus Read Committee and Assistant Professor of English, will lead the discussion.  We plan to hold other informal meetings and workshops throughout the semester as a way for us to engage this book as a campus community. 

 

 

 

 

 

The Kennedy Years: 50 Years Later

Check out this LibGuide on The Kennedy Legacy!  It's a great resource to use with the fall Campus Read book, Mrs. Kennedy and Me, or to prepare for the upcoming JFK Symposium on campus.

Campus Read 2013-2014

Fall 2013 Campus Read Selection

Mrs. Kennedy and Me by Clint Hill

 

North Dakota native, author, and former secret service agent, Clint Hill, protected Mrs. Kennedy during John F. Kennedy's presidency and, very publicly, on the day JFK was assassinated. Hill will be the keynote speaker at the JFK Symposium on campus, November 5-7, 2013.

 

Spring 2014 Campus Read Selection

American Boy by Larry Watson

 

Larry Watson, formerly of Bismarck and a 1967 BSC alumnus, is the author of Montana 1948, BSC's first Campus Read selection in 2004. American Boy,Watson's highly-praised eighth book, is about a young man's coming of age, a murder, and the American dream in a small town.

 

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