A VERY PRIVATE WOMAN

Bantam, New York, 1998, 1^st pr.  ISBN 0-553-10629-5.  Hard cover, 356 pages including Notes and Index.  Very good plus; light edge wear, spine ends lightly bumped; tight binding; small mark on lower fore-edge page block.  Dust jacket with price intact shows only a few light rubs.  Interior clean and unmarked; black & white photo plate section.  ‘Mary Pinchot Meyer was found shot to death on a wooded Georgetown towpath less than a year after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.  Because she was a former CIA wife, Mary’s murder fueled intense speculation.  What few knew at the time was that Mary, a frequent visitor to the White House, had also been JFK’s lover. … the search for her diary was carried out by her brother-in-law, newsman Ben Bradlee, and by CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton.  Did Mary Meyer die because of her nearness to power?  Or was the right man – an alleged would-be mugger – arrested after all, only to be acquitted?’ (from rear flap)