“One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor — you promote the book and the author.”

—  Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Interview with Publishers Weekly (19 April 1993)

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public figure, First Lady to 35th U.S. President John F. Ke… 1929–1994

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