Word: ghostwritten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course not. Yet virtually all of the memorable speeches of the 1980s were ghostwritten. As historians of the next century attempt to delve the psyche's of George Bush and Ronald Reagan, will have to base their conclusions on the remarks of an obscure housewife named Peggy Noonan...
...while, the organs of the "respectable press" held out and refused to print ghost-written work. But the cause was probably lost when the New York Times Magazine published a ghost-written piece by Jimmy Carter. A few months ago, Time ran a ghostwritten cover story with George Bush's byline--and even had the gall to run a full page photo that purported to show the President "putting the finishing touches" on the piece at his Oval Office desk...
College students are supposed to be idealists. That's what I thought, anyway, when I received a ghostwritten "open letter from the President" that the White House P.R. machine sent to every college newspaper in the country...
DeVore says that some textbooks are ghostwritten by journalists, and marketed under the names of well-known scholars to improve national sales. Although he says he knows of no one at Harvard who would stoop to such a practice, he believes it is more common among "people at lesser-known universities...