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There are more angles to this story. Kearns's new contract includes Richard N. Goodwin, her fiance and a former aide to Johnson. She says she's scrapping the original manuscript and writing a whole new book with Goodwin. Meanwhile, Kearns is also a nominee for tenure as a professor of Government at Harvard, by vote of that department's senior faculty last fall, based to a great extent on the strength of that disputed, 480-page manuscript. When kearns switched publishers in April, The New York Times ran a long story. The Wall Street Journal editorialized that Harvard should...
...main characters in the publishing scandal are very earnest and personable people--florid and loquacious reminders that the academic specimens around here who wear ties and sit behind desks, or infest libraries, or say 'No Comment' just don't make for exciting copy. Kearns is emotional and plaintive, Goodwin is garrulous and familiar, and Glikes is intense and a little self-righteous. They all call me Phil, they all love to go off-the-record and whine about the other characters in this story, no matter how minor, and they all have an axe to grind. And they...
...Doris's a postasy. And when I asked Glikes whether he had spoken to Kearns since the break, he sighed and--he must have been leaning back in his chair--said. "Well, I used to call her every night, just to ask her why she had done this, but Goodwin would always answer and hang up on me. But then, one morning I called, and Doris answered and said she was busy but she'd call back later. And I guess it was about a half hour later, I was in my office with a German publisher, and she called...
...papers, Glikes came off as a sap, a sweet guy who shared a few tender moments with Kearns until Goodwin swept onto the scene and left his nose out of joint. Kearns and Goodwin weren't so flattered by the newspapers' stage directions, but they both stressed Glikes's ingenuous attachment as a real wrench in the editorial works while Kearns had been with Basic...
Kearns, whose voice assumes a hurt and importunate tone, explained patiently, "You've got to understand; his feelings were so intense." Goodwin's well-used-and-gravelly Washington politics voice wasn't made for such subtlety: "He [Glikes] is trying to set himself up as a rejected suitor... He's living out his fantasy life in The New York times." Goodwin's theory in this publication scandal is that the whole thing has been cooked up against him and Doris buy a New York "literary cabal." He is defensive because he most feel somewhat responsible for Kearns's most...