The opening pages of this study of Jackie Onassis read like a study in high camp writing style; surely, you think, Wayne Koestenbaum can't keep this up, this stuff about the formation of the icon and the liberation of his inner Jackie, for 290 pages? But he can, and he does, and it's clever and witty and occasionally, in its impassioned dissection of the contemporary phenomenon known as "celebrity for its own sake", illuminating. What it isn't, really, is even remotely interesting - though hordes of outraged Jackie fans will no doubt disagree.
