The American Spectator
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LZ Granderson: The last thing Prince Harry needed was a ghostwriter who did the same, but he got one nonetheless.
LZ: The author of a book should be the author's — his or her life, thoughts, ideas, and, as far as possible, actual words.
He says Harry's book was, in fact, about Harry, but no one cares about the ghost.
Granderson says every celebrity who writes a memoir has substantial help, including politicians.
David Gergen: I thought Bill Ayers and Barack Obama shared the same ghostwriter.
He says Ayers' anger embedded in the text of Dreams is so eloquently expressed that Dinesh D’Souza titled his Obama book, The Roots of Obama’s Rage.
Gergen says Obama is not an angry man, but Ayers is the author of "The Days of Rage".
Ayers injected enough rage and style to allow the literary world to overpraise his book.
Ayers would love to get the credit for greasing Obama’s skids to the White House, but no one in his world wants to hear that story.
And so, sadly, he remains a ghost, visible only to those he least wants to see him.
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