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...Though a tabloid can be leafed through inconspicuously at CVS while your boyfriend’s back is turned, a book requires the courage to face the cashier and acknowledge, “Yes, I care enough about Paris Hilton’s life to pay $22.00 for her ghost-written autobiography.” It’s difficult to take a celebrity’s life seriously when it’s printed in the National Enquirer alongside “Leading Experts Charge: Lovelorn Astronaut Intended to Leave Victim BURIED ALIVE or Even kill...
...Last November, The Los Angeles Times reported that the Pentagon pays to place both news reports and opinion pieces in the Iraqi media. Some articles are ghost-written by American soldiers and then planted in the Iraqi press; other payments are made to Iraqi journalists who write their own copy but toe the American line...
Haven't we all heard the Nick Leeson story one time too many? Let's see, there was the unauthorized biography, then the ghost-written how-I-did-it and even a celluloid treatment, with Ewan McGregor playing the Rogue Trader. Apparently some of the folks at Allied Irish, Ireland's biggest bank, needed another telling of the tale to drive home the message that inadequately supervised traders can threaten even the most venerable institutions. So last week we got the real-life reenactment: Allied Irish alleged that John Rusnak, 37, a currency trader at Allfirst, its U.S. unit...
HBPS bought the publishing rights for the story, which will be ghost-written by Steve Kemper, after a proposal backed by technology gurus promised the device would dramatically alter urban planning and the daily lives of city dwellers...
Plenty of books have been published on Robinson's life, including two ghost-written autobiographies bearing Robinson's name. But Rampersad, a professor of literature at Princeton and the co-author of Arthur Ashe's Days of Grace, secured the cooperation of Rachel Robinson, Jackie's widow, who gave him full access to her private papers and the archives of the Jackie Robinson Foundation. The result of Rampersad's research may strike some readers as unduly dry and academic. The prose sometimes seems stiff: "He thought of himself and his future in terms of moral and social obligations rather than...