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ghostwrite stories: 6 news summaries

Palin Writing
Pal Hails From Partisan Fringe

Co-author Vincent's earlier books skew religious, conservative

Oct 1, 09 8:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - The woman who co-wrote Sarah Palin's bestseller-before-it's-published memoir Going Rogue has been palling around with some pretty roguish types herself. Lynn Vincent has co-authored books with a journalist with a penchant for racist rhetoric and a disgraced general, and has herself written that Barack Obama is the "minority survivor"... More »

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memoir • ghostwrite • Sarah Palin • Going Rogue • Lynn Vincent

OPINION

 Palin on Facebook: 
 Now She's Got a Ghostwriter 

She even used a semicolon—it can't possibly be her

Aug 13, 09 8:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin came out swinging on Facebook last night, responding to criticism of her infamous “death panels” comment in a 1,000-word, point-by-point rebuttal, complete with footnotes. There’s only one problem, notes Cajun Boy on Gawker: “There’s no way in hell Sarah Palin wrote it.”... More »

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health care • Facebook • ghostwrite • health care reform • Sarah Palin • death panel • deathers

 GOP Offered $10K to Prove Ayers Authored Obama Book

Goal was to prove Ayers penned 'Dreams From My Father'

Nov 2, 08 1:12 PM CST
(Newser) - A Republican congressman and his brother-in-law approached an Oxford philosophy don in an attempt to prove that Barack Obama's autobiography had been ghostwritten by William Ayers, the Times of London reports. Peter Millican says he was offered $10,000 to analyze Obama's Dreams From My Father and Ayers' Fugitive Days... More »

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Barack Obama • Oxford • memoir • ghostwrite • Dreams From My Father • Election 2008 • Bill Ayers


 Brother's
 Ghost
 Writer:
 Madonna

Singer's goal: concert ticket sales

Jul 28, 08 10:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Christopher Ciccone’s perfectly timed book, Life with My Sister Madonna, may have had a world-famous ghost writer: the Material Girl herself. In a bid to sell concert tickets, Madonna "actually ghost-wrote parts of it with him,” an insider tells the New York Post. “That's why there's... More »

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Alex Rodriguez • ghostwrite • Madonna • ticket sales • celebrity tell-alls • concert tour • Christopher Ciccone

 Miley Cyrus
 to Outsource
 Autobiography 

Disney tween will hire ghostwriter for tell-all

Apr 17, 08 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Miley Cyrus has inked a multimillion-dollar deal with Disney Books to pen an autobiography of her short, sweet life, according to Ok! magazine. But don't think it'll read like some 15-year-old's homework assignment. The "hush-hush" tween queen is looking for a ghostwriter to put the young superstar's life... More »

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Disney • ghostwrite • autobiography • Miley Cyrus • nonfiction books

White House
to Ghostwrite
Surge Report

Think Progress blogger furious over detail hidden in LA Times

Aug 15, 07 9:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - An irate blogger has blown up the fine print in today's news, exposing a plan by Washington to pen a long-awaited report on Iraq’s troop surge. Think Progress blogger Faiz posted a paragraph he discovered deep in a Los Angeles Times story, revealing that the White House will secretly... More »

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Bush administration • troop surge • White House • David Petraeus • ghostwrite • Iraq war • George W. Bush

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