Word: simonizes
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...stir was triggered by 2,000 advance copies of the first 123 pages of McGinniss's book, which Simon & Schuster had been distributing to whet booksellers' interest. They contained a statement about McGinniss's extensive research, adding, "Some thoughts and dialogue attributed to figures in this narrative were created by the author, based on such research and his knowledge of the relevant people, places and events." When questioned, McGinniss admits that his subject granted him no interviews for the book; he also allows that he regularly inferred in his narrative what Kennedy might have been thinking. "I absolutely did that...
When a book makes headlines months before its scheduled release, the publisher and author can normally uncross their fingers and alert their accountants. Is such euphoria warranted even when the headlines are rotten? That question concerns Simon & Schuster and Joe McGinniss, the best-selling writer (The Selling of the President, 1968; Fatal Vision) whose forthcoming biography of Edward M. Kennedy, The Last Brother, has been prompting a blizzard of bad news. Biographic License? headlined the Washington Post. The New York Times put the matter, bluntly, on its front page: Kennedy Quotes in New Book Are Invented...
...spectacle, a classic Washington combination of cynicism and naivete, seems different this time. For one thing, the lead hectors are not Helmsian right-wingers but liberal Democrats, Senator Paul Simon and Representative Edward Markey. This time, too, TV executives are groveling a bit, making mea culpas. "It's hard not to believe we've had some role in this," says Howard Stringer, CBS's president. Ted Turner told one congressional committee that he and his peers are "guilty of murder." And so, this time, the broadcasters felt obliged to make some concrete concession: starting two months from now, programs that...
Thirteen years ago, it didn't take much wooing to lure Simon M. Schama from Cambridge, England to Cambridge, Mass...
...thrilled that he's coming," says Alan Brinkley, a former lecturer at Harvard in history and literature. "There is no historian who does the sorts of things Simon does...