Word: ghostwritten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turns out the President's second effort at matching his wife's success is faring even worse than the first one. His latest literary adventure is nearly a year past its original due date, and has been buffeted by bureaucratic wrangling within the White House. A 400-page, ghostwritten draft of the text, which focuses on race in America, sits stuck in his In box. The topic is one that Clinton cares deeply about and is supremely qualified to examine. Tentatively titled Out of Many, One, the book aims to offer the President's personal vision of future racial...
...pretty sure he will never write. By chance he meets Eric, an attractive undergraduate, who invites him to his apartment to share some marijuana. Hoping for sex, Leavitt learns that the seductive Eric has a more complex transaction in mind: sex there will be, once the author has ghostwritten Eric's English term paper, and once that term paper has earned Eric an A. "I've got something you want," Eric says. "You've got something I need...
...West German contingent. In those heady days, Ratzinger and Kung applauded from the sidelines as Joseph Cardinal Frings, the Archbishop of Cologne, electrified the council by calling the prosecutorial tactics of the very office Ratzinger now leads "a cause of scandal to the world." Ratzinger is said to have ghostwritten most of that speech...
Since the book arises in part from a moment of personal crisis, it speaks with a certain passionate authenticity, a ring of the unfakable that is rare enough in the (usually ghostwritten) outpourings of politicians. The American public, much afflicted by sound bites, has all but abandoned hope for intelligent life in Washington. It may be impressed by Gore's sustained intellectual concentration and mastery of his subject, the environment. Gore has studied it a while. In the 1988 campaign, the Senator held the wedding guests with his glittering eye and talked about such obscurities as the greenhouse effect...
...hired by the Justice Department as a clerk in July 1917. He so blatantly cultivated an image of pious rectitude that one wit dubbed him "that Virgin Mary in pants." In reality, Hoover was permanently on the take: he decorated his home at government expense, funneled royalties from his ghostwritten books into a private slush fund, accepted free vacations in Florida and California from toadying millionaires. Hoover had no qualms about using gossip about clandestine homosexual encounters for blackmail. Meanwhile, he was seen so often in the company of his deputy, Clyde Tolson, that stories constantly circulated that...