In this book, some readers might be troubled by the lack of attribution for “she felt,” “he thought,” “said an intimate,” “revealed an associate,” “confided an employee,” and “reported someone with knowledge of the situation.” Then, like a bird feathering its nest, he snatches twigs and wisps from newspapers, magazines, and tabloids while plucking from the vast trove of other published lore, which Jill Abramson, in the New York Times, once estimated to be 40,000 Kennedy books. No documentation is provided, other than the author’s note that he recycles sources from his previous books. Auchincloss deceased for many years, I wondered what possible “sources” could’ve been interviewed about the intimacies of their bedroom. With eyes popping, I turned to the chapter notes for documentation on this “never before revealed secret.” Under source notes for “Janet’s Unconventional Pregnancy,” Taraborrelli writes: “Because of the sensitive nature of this chapter, my interviewed sources asked to remain anonymous.” And - hang on - we’re told why: “Even though Hugh was not able to sustain an erection, he was able to produce sperm… used a kitchen utensil along the lines of a turkey baster - though it would be incorrect to say that this was the specific instrument she used no one can quite remember.” Auchincloss was incapable of impregnating Mrs. Janet was 37 Hugh was 58, and he had had three children by two previous wives.
The big reveal, according to his publisher’s press release, is that (supposedly) their mother performed do-it-yourself artificial insemination to get pregnant twice after she divorced their father and married her second husband, Hugh D. Spoiler alert: He adores Jackie and abhors Lee. He wrote After Camelot in 2012, and he now offers Jackie, Janet & Lee: The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill.
In 2000, he wrote Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot, which became a two-part TV series on NBC in 2001. Randy Taraborrelli, who’s been mining two of those veins for the last 20 years and claims “many New York Times best sellers” to his credit. A book entitled How JFK Made Love to Marilyn Monroe on 150 Calories a Day would zoom to instant success.
Nothing sells like sex, diets, and the Kennedys.
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