Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 3
Part I Childhood and Family
1 Becoming Bunny 13
2 Crafting Happiness 28
3 "The Most Beautiful Playboy" 37
4 The Mythology of Contentment 50
Part II The Path to Happiness
5 London, War-and Women 50
6 The Field of War 70
7 The Chase and the Wedding 78
8 The Marriage and the Troubles 86
Part III Bunny's New Path
9 Finding the Way 103
10 Life in Pictures: Degas-and Rothko and Braque 115
11 Bunny and the Modern Museum 130
12 Johnny and the Jewels 146
13 Clothes and the Man 160
Part IV Oak Spring Farm in Virginia
14 An American Pastoral 175
15 Say It with Flowers: The Walled Garden 187
16 Walking Through the House 209
Part V Bunny and the Kennedys
17 Bunny and Jackie: A Friendship 223
18 A Garden for the President 235
19 "America's Country House" 251
20 Arlington Cemetery: Portrait of a Landscape Gardener 266
Part VI A Garden Fit for a King
21 Le Potager du Roi 279
Part VII For Everything There is a Season
22 Osterville and Antigua, Island Havens 295
23 "A House of My Own": South Pasture on Nantucket 315
24 Magnificence in New York, Sorrow in D.C. 329
Part VIII The Garden Library
25 A House of Books 351
26 Competition and Colleagues 370
Part IX Meetings and Farewells
27 "Le Plus Parisien des Antiquaires Hollandais" 383
28 A Long Goodbye to Paul 396
29 Goodbye, Eliza 407
30 "I Want to Make a President" 426
31 Robert Isabell 442
32 "I Am Not Afraid" 452
Chronology 469
Notes 487
Index 519