Word: ghostwritten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Underlined Horror. Books like this tend to be ghostwritten, but Mrs. King wrote this one herself. The resulting weaknesses are also the book's strength. If there is an overabundance of expressions of gratitude to myriad friends, there is also much affection that might have been mawkish if presented in more professional prose. The story, moreover, is full of details: The Kings' eldest daughter Yolanda explaining at school that her daddy "goes to jail to help people"; the awed Martin Luther King Sr. listening to his son preach in London's St. Paul's Cathedral...
...will no doubt be called the name regularly applied to him in the course of his career: liar. Often enough, he and Anderson get their facts askew through careless checking or the fear of losing a story. Pearson, for example, claimed that Kennedy's Profiles in Courage was ghostwritten. The Kennedys promptly produced evidence to the contrary. Pearson taunted Secretary of Defense James Forrestal for fleeing in fear when a burglar held up his wife; in fact, Forrestal was elsewhere and unaware of the robbery. Not long after the accusation, Forrestal committed suicide, and many people blamed Pearson...
...statement of Drs. Farnsworth and Prout on marijuana (I'll leave the LSD part to someone who knows more about that drug) is a mixture of some fact, considerable nonsense, and a great deal more exaggeration and innuendo. It reads like a handout from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (ghostwritten maybe?) and is an inexcusable document for a medical unit that is supposedly well staffed, particularly one that has access to a decent medical library. Some points...
Ostensibly a ghostwritten political promotion for his California gubernatorial aspirations, Reagan mentions nary a word of his political ambitions until the last couple of pages. But he slips in a sentence now and then so we know he's really qualified. Take his long experience as a lifeguard for instance. "Life guarding provides one of the best vantage points in the world to learn about people," says Reagan. "During my career at the park I saved seventy-seven people." Funny thing though, all the "victims" accused Reagan of trying to play the hero. Ronnie admits it. In football, he recalls...
With 60,000 words already ghostwritten Michael Chaplin was suddenly having some second thoughts about the unfilial opus due out next month called I Couldn't Smoke the Grass on My Father's Lawn. Father Charlie had decided long ago that he didn't like the fumes of his beatnik boy either, but even with the family feud Michael was beginning to worry that Grass was a bit thick, asked a London High Court justice to suppress the book because it exploited "the piquancy of a situation where the son of a famous man is shown...