In the Kennedy Style: Magical Evenings in the Kennedy White House

New York: Doubleday. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; 144 pages; Inscribed and Signed on the halftitle -- To Kay -- / Some happy memories are / here --- Tish Hollensterner [Letitia Baldrige] / Apr 1, 1998" This marvelous book by Jacqueline Kennedy's good friend and White House social secretary describes several of the stellar evenings of grand entertainment at the White House during the Kennedy Administration. The remarkable luncheon for Princess Grace, the fabulous musical evening for Pablo Casals, the literary evening with Andre Malraux and so many more. Baldrige's prose is enlivened with many photographs and the wonderful addition of the menus and recipes for the evening provided by White House Chef Rene Verdon. This copy is inscribed to Baldrige's good friend and a friend of the Kennedy's Kay Winton Evans. PROVENANCE: Katherine "Kay" Winton Evans was a Washington writer and editor and with her husband political columnist and television journalist Rowland Evans, Jr. a major figure in the social life of Georgetown, Washington, DC from the 1960s on. Mrs. Evans grew up in Minnesota outside Minneapolis on the shore of Lake Minnetonka; her father David J. Winton was president of the Winton Lumber Company. She graduated from the Putney School in Vermont and was a 1946 graduate of Vassar College, where she was editor of the Vassar Chronicle. After college she worked on the editorial page of The Minneapolis Times, and moved to Washington in 1948 where she met and married Rowland Evans, Jr., then a reporter for the Associated Press Washington Hill bureau. Mrs. Evans was on staff of Senator Hubert H. Humphrey and later for Senator Paul H. Douglas. In 1980 she became the managing editor of The Washington Journalism Review, a publication on the press and in 1983 became editor, a position she held until 1987. Mrs. Evans was a trustee for Vassar College for 15 years. Their home was the site of many memorable gatherings of influential and remarkable people from journalism, politics and general society over the decades from the 1960s to the 2000s. ; Signed by Author .