JACKIE: Public, Private, Secret

The power in a writer’s hands can never be underestimated.  Nor can the power of truth.  Nor can the power of empathy.  In a world where everything is documented forever, it is so special to find a writer who looks above and beyond, one who is curious and full of sensitivity and awareness of both individual and societal pressures.

In a Gawker interview J. Randy Taraborrelli muses…

“I think as you get older as a writer, your standards change. When I was a kid, my standard was very simple: If it was true, I put it in my book. That was it. There was no wiggle room to that. I’ve been through enough in my lifetime to realize there has to be more of a standard in biography than just the truth. There has to be an eye toward empathy. There has to be and eye toward understanding interpretation. There’s a lot of nuance that goes into a biography that is bigger than whether or not something is true. When I was a kid, it was a simpler time. Today, I weigh everything on a moral compass. It has to do with: Is it fair? Is it hurtful? Is it going to cause people pain? That’s a big part of my process today that when I was a kid, I never considered.

His New York Times bestselling books on one of the most iconic women of our time JACKIE: Public, Private, Secret comes out in paperback 23 July 2024.

When an accomplished bestselling Author writes a book that can actually shed new light on an iconic subject that has truly been picked over for decades, it’s a break-through worthy of attention.