Word: schwed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After telling his editors of his concerns, Buck decided he was ethically unable to do the book. So Peter Schwed, then chairman of the editorial board of S & S, recommended that the book be turned into a spy novel ("That's a simple way of presenting something you are nervous about presenting as fact," he told the Wall Street Journal). Two novelists declined...
...Schwed has since retired and had nothing to do with Vengeance-the same story from the same secret agent but with a new writer. It was offered by a small Canadian publisher to Michael Korda, who jumped at it. Korda is the nephew of Film Producer Sir Alexander Korda. Articulate, aggressive and imperturbably assured, he makes so little secret of his ambition for recognition that friends consider it part of his Hungarian charm. Among his own bestsellers is Power! How to Get It, How to Use It, a book neither as trashy nor as clever as it sounds. Hype...