Little of this actually made it into the book. It appears that Kennedy’s most heavy contribution was on John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts. His works including interviews with those near to Kennedy as he was working on it, his “research associates,” as well as access to President Kennedy’s notes on his writing project. Kennedy”, published in the 80s take a deeper dive. However, Historian Herbert Parmet’s book “Jack: The Struggles of John F. So, to him, he’d kept no secrets and had, in fact, been the author of Profiles in Courage. In Kennedy’s eyes, he’d credited his assessors, and Davids Sorensen, for example. A columnist in a televised interview stated that “Jack Kennedy is…the only man in history that I know who won a Pulitzer prize on a book which was ghostwritten for him.” A statement to which Kennedy was quick to draw his legal punches. Not everyone was on board that Senator Kennedy actually wrote it. Kennedy’s book a bestseller and a Pulitzer prize winner for biography in under a year, but the barely-promising Democrat was not in a primed spot for his election to the presidency, four years into the future.
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