Posted on 09/15/2007 6:55:59 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK – Sen. Edward Kennedy has held preliminary discussions with publishers about writing a book on his career, an adviser to the senator told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Kennedy, whose books in recent years include a policy work and a children's story, has retained Washington, D.C., attorney Robert Barnett. Barnett's many literary clients include former President Clinton, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan.
“After many years of being requested to do so, and after writing several other books in recent years, Sen. Kennedy has decided to consider the possibility of writing a book about his career and his views about some of the most critical historical events in modern times,” said Kennedy adviser Stephanie Cutter.
“When and if the time comes, we'll announce further details.”
Asked if the book might go beyond his Senate record into such personal history as the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, Cutter said “there have only been a few preliminary meetings.”
“It's premature to even describe the book. It doesn't exist yet,” she said.
According to Cutter, the immediate inspiration for a possible book was an oral history project about Kennedy's public life that was launched in 2004 in conjunction with the Miller Center at the University of Virginia. The project, expected to last several years, will include interviews with the senator, family members, colleagues, journalists, foreign leaders and others.
Cutter said the project “refocused his attention on the enormous progress we've made in civil rights, equal opportunity and justice, as well as the critical challenges we face in the future.”
Despite his obvious interest in his own record, Kennedy, 75, has no plans to retire, Cutter said, noting that he was re-elected last year. The Massachusetts Democrat is the reigning patriarch of one of the country's most famous, and tragic, political dynasties.
He has served in the Senate since 1962, emerging as a leading legislator and voice of liberalism while enduring the deaths of his brothers, the breakup of his first marriage and numerous other personal trials.
“People would certainly want to hear what he has to say; among the Kennedys still living, he is one of the few who can go back into the relationships to his two brothers,” says historian Robert Dallek, who has written a best-selling biography of President Kennedy.
Kennedy's previous works include “My Senator and Me,” a children's story, and “America Back on Track.” He has been the subject of countless books and cooperated with one author, Adam Clymer, for a biography that came out in 1999.
Through the Bottom of a Bottle: My failures as a Senator, Presidential Candidate and a Man. By Teddy Kennedy.
Through the Bottom of a Bottle: My failures as a Senator, Presidential Candidate and a Man. By Teddy Kennedy.
How about “What Happens in the Car Stays in the Car?”
“If I Did It” Part II
big time.
My Senator and Me is written from the point of view of his dog Splash (I am NOT making that up), and the illustrations of Kennedy all through the book slim him down at least 150 lbs.
Which career ..?? Drunk or murderer ..??
lol.....that's good. : )
And unions are clearing out basements as they prepare to buy truck loads of this Kennedy screed and store it next to “It Takes a Village” and stolen Republican absentee ballots.
And this fat ba$tard is also at least partially responsible for (with one of his bills in decades past)the majority of legal immigrants being from third-world countries, rather than European. My primary goal in life, now that I’m in my sixties, is-I pray that I live long enough to see this swine die before me. That’s the only thing that will get him out of office.
The Life and Times Of Edward 'Ted' KennedyChapter 1
I Was Kicked out of Harvard for Cheating
(But daddy was really really RICH so that doesn't count.)Chapter 2
How To Get Away With Murder and
other Things I Learned From My FamilyChapter 3
Anyone Can Get Elected To Congress - I knowChapter 4
Writing Legislation While Drunk Is Really FunChapter 5
Your Liver and Why You Don't Need ItChapters 6 through 10
Hey! It's Cocktail Time - Where's The Women!!!
or .. I Was So Drunk I Can't Remember The Last 35 Years
Would one of those "other personal trials" be leaving a woman to drown to death while he frantically sought to escape the scene and cover his (likely enebriated)fat a$$? It's amazing (or maybe not) how this piece of human garbage has been lionized as some great public servant over the years. What a mess the Kennedy family is. Without a doubt, the most corrupt political dynasty (and that is saying a lot)in our nation's history.
The Kennedy/Faust Connection
hes pickled...longer shelf life ya know.
In honor of this historic book, my new tagline makes mention of the Kennedy legacy.
Hilarious!!!!
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