{"product_id":"jfks-ghost-david-r-stokes-9781493057689","title":"Jfk's Ghost: Kennedy, Sorensen and the Making of Profiles in Courage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I'd rather win a Pulitzer Prize than be President of the United States,\" John F. Kennedy confided to author Margaret Coit shortly after his election to the Senate in 1953. Kennedy got his wish four years later, when his book \u003ci\u003eProfiles in Courage\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the Pulitzer for biography--even though it wasn't among the finalists for the prize. Furthermore, the role of Ted Sorensen in drafting the main chapters in the book was never acknowledged by Kennedy's inner circle, and Kennedy himself was hyper-sensitive until his dying day about rumors that cast doubt on his ownership of \u003ci\u003eProfiles in Courage\u003c\/i\u003e. Still, Jack Kennedy the \u003ci\u003ewriter \u003c\/i\u003eis part of the Kennedy narrative that helped propel his political career. And he did indeed work for a time as a journalist, and brought a measures of erudition, wit, and charm to his speeches. But if the rumors surrounding authorship of \u003ci\u003eProfiles in Courage \u003c\/i\u003ewere proven to be true prior to his ascendance to the Presidency, there might have been no brief and shining moment in America called Camelot. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David R. Stokes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1493057685\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781493057689\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lyons Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 6.38w x 1.10d","brand":"David R. Stokes","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44042525311231,"sku":"9781493057689","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b5fa6cd4-2246-44bf-bb8d-21c3a154c0d7.jpg?v=1684962037","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jfks-ghost-david-r-stokes-9781493057689","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}