[PW] Sorensen on "Profiles in Courage"

[Fred Shapiro]

I am under deadline writing an article about ghostwritten famous 
quotations, and have a pressing need to track down a statement by Theodore 
Sorensen.

My editor tells me that she recollects seeing a documentary about John 
Kennedy or the Kennedy family sometime in the 1970s or 1980s in which 
Sorensen was interviewed about Kennedy's book _Profiles in Courage_. 
Sorenson, asked point-blank if JFK wrote the book, said, more or less, 
"The author is the person whose name is on the work and who takes 
responsibility for it, and he was the author."

Can anyone supply any details of this broadcast interview or about other 
instances where Sorensen said something along these lines about authorship 
of a ghostwritten book?

Fred Shapiro


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