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From Monsters and Critics.com Books News In this new book White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters by Robert Schlesinger, he tracks the days of FDR to JFK to LBJ and just what went into their speeches. The NYT notes, “Pointing to the many recent White House memoirs, Mr. Schlesinger concludes that ghosts aren’t what they used to be: invisible. It’s too bad that the visibility of spin remains an undeveloped issue in such an intriguing book.” Publishers Weekly states, “Schlesinger's coverage is wide, his researccomprehensive, his pace fast, his prose light. But surely there's much more to say about the way pre-FDR presidents went about conceiving and writing their major speeches, about what we may have lost (while also gaining) from the intervention of outside wordsmiths. And one wishes the author had sprung free of his material and ended with his own thoughts about what he's written, for no one knows more about this subject than Schlesinger.” Simon & Schuster is the publisher, and the book has 8 pages of black and white photos, and finishes at 592 pages. As the NYT article notes, “The Pulpit Wouldn’t Be So Bully Without Them.” Click here to read the article.
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