Publishing News

It's hard to know how we missed THIS story last week, in which the AP reported that Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D. Mass.) was to publish a children's book titled "My Senator and Me: A Dogs-Eye View of Washington, D.C." In a statement we present without comment, the Senator explained:

I am very excited about the opportunity to create a book for young readers and their families that will deepen their understanding of how our American government works.

And clearly there is much the Senior Senator from Massachusetts could tell about how Government works, some of which probably requires no plea bargain before his testimony.

The Associated Press goes on:

Books are a Kennedy family tradition, from John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Profiles in Courage" to the poetry compilations edited by Caroline Kennedy.

Thus presumably raising the question of who actually wrote this one, as well.