[PW] Sorensen on "Profiles in Courage"

[Graf, Jeffrey C]

Hello Fred,

Transcript ...

TED SORENSEN: Well, the author of Profiles in Courage was John F. 
Kennedy. The author is the man who stands behind what is there on the 
printed page. It's his responsibility to put his name to it and to put 
it out.

The Kennedys.  The American Experience.  PBS.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kennedys/filmmore/pt.html

Broadcast:

TELEVISION VIEW; A Nation's Romance With a Political Dynasty
Print Save By WALTER GOODMAN
Published: September 20, 1992, Sunday

"The American Experience" rounds out the week with repeats of "L.B.J." 
(Tuesday and Wednesday at 8 P.M.) and "Nixon" (Thursday night at 8), 
probing looks at other complex figures driven by power, idealism and 
fate. The scheduling makes sense; neither Johnson nor Nixon could fully 
shake off America's memory of John F. Kennedy.

...At the center of the carefully wrought four-hour documentary, which 
begins tonight at 8 on PBS, is Joseph P. Kennedy, the stock market 
manipulator, bootlegger, producer of low-budget movies and womanizer 
who became, in the narrator's assessment, "the richest Irish-American 
on earth."

Regards,

Jeff Graf
Reference Department
Wells Library
Indiana University - Bloomington










Quoting Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>:

>
> 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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