JFK's Ghost

Kennedy, Sorensen and the Making of Profiles in Courage

David R. Stokes

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Taylor Trade
01 June 2021

History; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000

“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 Profiles in Courage 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 Profiles in Courage. Still, Jack Kennedy the writer is 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 Profiles in Courage were proven to be true prior to his ascendance to the Presidency, there might have been no brief and shining moment in America called Camelot.

By: David R. Stokes
Imprint: Taylor Trade
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 694g
ISBN: 9781493057689
ISBN 10: 1493057685
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 01 June 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

David R. Stokes has written several highly regarded works of fiction and nonfiction, as well as two screenplays. His first book, The Shooting Salvationist: J. Frank Norris and the Murder Trial that Captivated America (Steerforth/Penguin/Random House, 2011), a narrative non-fiction thriller set in the 1920s, quickly became a Wall Street Journal best-seller. He divides his time between homes in Virginia and Florida.