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Happy Times by Lee Radziwill
Radziwill, Lee. Happy Times. First Edition. 2000. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition.
Lee Radziwill, the equally (some say more) stylish sister of one of the most celebrated, admired women of the 20th Century, could have made a bundle by signing with a major publishing house and writing a full-scale memoir. Instead, she went with a boutique publisher known for its beautiful coffee table books, and produced this scrapbook-style memoir, containing more pages of photographs than text. She explained that it would involve her in too many other lives (most notably that of her sister). As such, we don’t quite learn the downside of living so near the klieg lights of Camelot, but as to happy moments, she reveals quite a lot. With cameos by Truman Capote, the Kennedys, Peter Beard, Andy Warhol, Jawaharlal Nehru, Aristotle Onassis, Cecil Beaton, and other luminaries.
“One always looks up to older siblings for guidance. One tries to emulate them, and follow their achievements. That’s what I did with my sister.”
--Lee Radziwill