Jfk courage book6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Sorensen said in his 2008 memoir that John Kennedy wrote the first draft of the book’s first and last chapters. He also wrote first drafts of some portions of the book in longhand on legal pads, which accounts for Mrs. Kennedy read widely for the book as he recovered in Florida from a back operation. As historian Herbert Parmet demonstrated more than 30 years ago, Sorensen was the principal author of most of “Profiles in Courage.” There is no question that then-Sen. Sorensen is depicted as having untruthfully claimed credit for the book, and then having greedily and ungratefully accepted all the proceeds it generated.īut the facts on these matters are known - and vary strikingly from what Mrs. ![]() Kennedy portrays her husband as the principal author of his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “ Profiles in Courage,” as well as his inaugural address. Kennedy’s writing partnership with Theodore Sorensen, his close aide and White House special counsel, once referred to by JFK as his “intellectual blood bank.” Mrs. But if the one subject on which I have some detailed knowledge is any indication, historians will need to be careful about putting too much stock in what Mrs. ![]() The recently released 1964 interviews of Jacqueline Kennedy by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. ![]()
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