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.
Chapter One: learning to swim...
“No Morals? No Problem! My Life, by Ted Kennedy”
Awl her fawlt some kind of coeurs awn moy famly.
I always want to recommend this book, but how the hell do you find a copy?
Used book stores? Yard sales on the Cape? Although hysterical in tone and laden with archaic conspiracy theory, it is the basic factual compendium of what really happened.
Imus (may he rest in post-drug peace) is always referring to Esther (Lobster) Newberg, his book agent. She was there! She lied. Never been properly debriefed. If the cadaverous faux cowboy ever makes it back on the air, maybe he should really interview her, i.e., as if she were a Republican.
Love also to see Ann Coulter work this vein a little bit!
Cute! How about:
Confessions of a Catholic Politician:
How I Sold My Soul to the Devil (and how you can, too!)
RE#18 I like the fourth choice.
Love you post, I couldn’t have said it better. Thank you.
RE#73
No problem. I meant every word of it.
This book would “sink to the bottom” of the bestseller list.
Good book!!!!!!!
FYI Kennedy ... you did.
The last thing Teddy boy might see before the Devil hauls him off is Mary Jo Kopechne in the arms of Jesus in Heaven, similar to the Lazarus story in the Bible. (Luke 16:22)
Every day that man lives proves that God is merciful. I hope he repents and has a dramatic, sudden and significant (and lasting) conversion before it's too late for him.
How about “Drowning for Dummies” By Fat Ted
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