Photo of the Day, November 6, 2009: Newburyport Night 1
Heroic MBTA Operator and Inspector Honored: Saved Woman's Life
Photo of the Day, November 10, 2009: Just Altitude, No Attitude
Google to Give Away WiFi at Logan, Elsewhere
Magnetic Fields New Album - Realism
Senator Ted Kennedy might be writing a book about his career, and he has hired a lawyer who has worked with other big leaders (as in the Clintons) on their books.
His adviser has leaked it but is being awfully tight-lipped about what the book will involve. The mere fact that the announcement emphasizes his career rather than his life suggests that it won't be the juicy tell-all that many people would like to see. Will he write about his brothers? About Chappaquiddick? About Joan? About sailing?
Ted Kennedy has published a children's book about his life from the perspective of his dog, and he's published a manifesto entitled America Back on Track. But both books dance around the much more fascinating subject - himself.
Tons of ink has been spilled on pages exposing the "real" Kennedy, particularly regarding Chappaquiddick, and Adam Clymer wrote a huge biography a few years ago. Maybe it's time for Kennedy to write about himself - and not from his dog's perspective.
Image of My Senator and Me from Amazon.
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebook
I'm sure a memoir from Teddy would be a page turner, not to mention a best-seller in waiting. Even if it's limited to his public career I'm sure there'd be a wealth of information and a unique perspective on the last 40-50 years of American and world history.
I'm probably in the minority on wanting to know everything about his personal scandals. I don't need a tell-all trashfest. I think we can all figure out what happened at Chappaquidick. Joan Kennedy has enough problems and I hope Teddy wouldn't expose their issues to the world. I don't want or need more dirty laundry.
One other thing, Adam Clymer was the reporter who inspired the infamous ''big time'' moniker from Bush/Cheney. There was another impolite term used in that exchange that I won't include. It's on the Internets.
Seriously? Clymer was the "big-time you-know-what." I guess he didn't endear himself to W. by writing on Ted Kennedy.
Unfortunately, Ted Sorensen is a little long in the tooth. Ted will have to find another ghost-writer. (You youngsters can look up the provenance of "Profiles in Courage" on Wiki.)