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  • A Very Private Woman

  • The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
  • By: Nina Burleigh
  • Narrated by: Siiri Scott
  • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
  • 3.4 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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By: Nina Burleigh
Narrated by: Siiri Scott
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Summary

In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary Meyer was a secret mistress of President John F. Kennedy, whom she had known since private school days, and after her death, reports that she had kept a diary set off a tense search by her brother-in-law, newsman Ben Bradlee, and CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton. 

But the only suspect in her murder was acquitted, and today her life and death are still a source of intense speculation, as Nina Burleigh reveals in her widely praised book, the first to examine this haunting story.
©1998 Nina Burleigh (P)2018 Tantor
Historical Politicians Murder Women United States
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Mote dialogue than content.

The dreadful stilted narration and over detailed and monotonous prose. Thank goodness it was a free book, worth exactly what I paid for it!

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What a story. From her beginning to end. Her murder is a strange one. Rather gripping

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