Too bad this tittle is taken...
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.
Boy, that’ll rocket to the top of Amazon.com.
Barabra Streisand will probably buy a million copies just to save the good senator embarrassment.
Then again, maybe she won’t.
Wonder what he’ll have to say about Chappaquidick?
It better come with crayons because I’m not spending extra on a box.
InebriNation: A drunk’s efforts to destroy a nation.
He’s co-writing it with OJ and it’s called how we got away with it...
These aholes believe the Kennedy’s to be second only to the Pope, or perhaps the equivalent of. Being a Democrat in this state is a cult, much like Islam.
Kerry and Kennedy are an embarassment to the Country, but here in Masshole land, they are the Union Choice.
Any state that can elect Governor Teletubbie (Tinkie Winkie) deserves to be isolated from the Democratic Republic of the United States. You all should revolt!
Let me sell my property first!!
Wonder what he’ll have to say about Chappaquidick?
I’m not paying retail to find out (or even buying any by-product of his memory. the best parts’ll be online in no time). ;-)
“You Can Fool Enough of the People Enough of the Time”: Old, wrinkled cover, nothing but blank pages inside.
Printing cost will be reduced with the book being written on the back of old Chavis bottle labels from the Kennedy Collection. Notes and Appendix will be written on an old waterlogged Oldsmobile Operators Manual.
“he may have to have a separate chapter for each of his nephews.. why are the kennedy gals so tame by comparison..?”
Rosemary Kennedy, sister to John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy, was given a lobotomy when her father complained to doctors about the mildly retarded girl’s embarrassing new interest in boys.
Wonder if he will write about the waitress sandwich he had with Chris Dodd?
It will be on the card table “This book is free because we can’t get rid of it”?
I can’t wait. A 450 lb book that no one understands until after the eighth cocktail.
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NEVER FORGET
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After seeing for himself what the Fight for Freedom was really all about while personally touring a then Free South Vietnam at the very beginning of the Vietnam War in 1965 ( See 5th Photo down - http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm ),
...Sen. TED KENNEDY later went on to fool a post-WATERGATE Democrat Congress into cutting off our funding for the then Free South Vietnamese People to fight for their own Freedom with.
This just as the Communist Soviet Union, as revealed by now open KGB Files, had given $6 Billion for over 600 Tanks, 1,000’s of mobile artillery pieces and tons of Ammunition to the invading Communist North Vietnamese People for their planned ‘Final Solution’ in the Free South.
Horridly bringing down upon the once Free South Vietnamese People:
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Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education (SLAVE LABOR) Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
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..”JOURNEY from the FALL”.. Movie Premieres = Fall of Saigon CLARITY..
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806248/posts
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NEVER FORGET
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And not one comment yet about Adam Clymer, the tall tale-teller formerly of the New York Times? Must be a real busy weekend for posters.
Doubtless, this book will have to be printed on waterproof paper. Oh, alcohol proof paper too.
How about “It Takes a Village Idiot”
GaG
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