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...publisher has high hopes for the 532-page tome, with a 1.5 million-copy first printing in the works. And banking on the international appeal of the Kennedy name and legacy, Twelve will publish the book in numerous countries, including the U.K., France and Italy. Twelve is profoundly guarded about the details of the embargoed book, as it angles for a huge best seller. But it does allow that, for ardent fans, a signed, leather-bound, limited-edition copy of the book can be preordered on the publisher's website...
...writing the book, Kennedy collaborated with Ron Powers, co-author of the No. 1 best seller Flags of Our Fathers and author of the critically acclaimed Mark Twain: A Life. Jon Karp, the editor in chief and publisher of Twelve, edited the book. In a statement, he described working with Kennedy as "the greatest experience of my 20 years in the publishing business." (Karp declined an interview.) He said, "For the past two years, I've had the incredible opportunity of asking Senator Kennedy every question I could think of - and receiving answers that deepened my understanding of national politics...
...that Kennedy's memoir will soar to the top of the best-seller list, though in the wake of his death his political aides are considering how best to handle its marketing - with his family in mourning, they may turn to his Senate colleagues to give interviews about the book. Three other recent books about Kennedy - Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy, edited by Peter Canellos (Simon & Schuster); Ted Kennedy: The Dream That Never Died by Edward Klein (Crown); and Ted Kennedy: Scenes from an Epic Life by the Boston Globe (Simon & Schuster) are also climbing...
...trawls, Venice merely the conveyance that takes his characters to those dark domains. The persuasive immediacy of the prose is such that it becomes all too easy to see Venice through Atman's self-consciously hip sunglasses. Pleasure dissipated from my first vaporetto ride the moment I opened the book. "You came to Venice," muses Atman, "you saw a ton of art, you went to parties, you drank up a storm, you talked bollocks for hours on end and went back to London with a cumulative hangover, liver damage, a notebook almost devoid of notes and the first tingle...
...conflict within India's political establishment. Last week, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a right-wing Hindu nationalist bloc that leads the opposition in Parliament, expelled Jaswant Singh, a former foreign minister in a BJP government and party stalwart. His crime? To have published a revisionist book on the history of Partition and, in particular, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founding father of Muslim Pakistan who Indians of all political stripes have often blamed for the violent sundering of the Subcontinent. Singh's Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence portrays Jinnah as a secularist and a great statesman, an image that would make...