European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Words on Ted Kennedy but whose Are they by Sarah Lyall Trie new York times Joe Mcginniss forthcoming Book about  Kennedy the last brother includes riveting description of Kennedy and his Sis Ter Eunice Shriver standing beside their father i bed in november 1963, struggling to break the news that president Kennedy had been shot. The senator wanted to speak Mcginniss writes. He was going to speak. He just needed one More moment to think of How to begin. And so he stood at the foot of the bed As mute As his father his hands clasped behind his Back unable even to look the old Man in the Eye. Finally Eunice could take it no More. She threw herself on the bed and began to shout daddy daddy there s been an Accident. But Jack s of. Jack was in an Accident. Daddy " Mcginniss a Best Selling author who has been involved in controversy before interviewed Nei ther Kennedy nor Shriver. Although the last Broth Era called nonfiction much of the dialogue and internal monologues Are compelling enough to be fictional and they Are. In an extraordinary note on the copyright Page of the Book which is to be published by Simon & schuster this fall the publisher says the events and circumstances described in the last brother have been extensively researched by the author. Some thoughts and dialogue attributed to figures in the narrative were created by the author based on such research and his knowledge of the relevant people places and  Mcginniss refused to comment on the Book say ing through his publisher that he would discuss his research techniques after it was published. But car Olyn Reidy the president and publisher of Simon & schuster said Mcginniss had intentionally written a work of interpretive  there Are certain scenes where he has used his imagination based on his research to infer a thought process or perhaps even a conversation in order to give the scene and what s going on its full expression Arcidy said. He was not intending to write a Book that has 150 pages of  the publisher s note could Well leave the Reader baffled about what is True and what was made up said Martin Garbus a prominent lawyer specializing in first amendment cases. What you re doing is putting thoughts into people s minds that Are clearly your own invention and people Are going to believe that they re True he said. Nonfiction books that take real people and spin fictional accounts of their thoughts and conversations Are not new. The most famous example is prob ably in cold blood in which Truman capote serv ing As an omniscient narrator painstakingly re created conversations thoughts and events leading to the gruesome murder of a Kansas family in 1959. But capote spent hundreds of hours interviewing everyone involved including the two men who committed the murders and said that he re created conversations based on his interviews. What makes the last brother an extraordinary work is that Mcginniss has sometimes created the dialogue of Well known people based on his own imagination almost As if this were the written ver Sion of a television docudrama often described As being based on real events or a movie like Oliver Stone s Juk. The Book is already being made into a miniseries for Abc Reidy said and vanity fair is planning to run excerpts in its september and october issues. Reidy said Mcginniss put in extensive research poring through documents and conducting numerous 11kst  sen. Edward Kennedy might not have the Las word in Joe Mcginniss the last brother. Interviews. It is truly based upon real events and real people and the vast majority is absolutely grounded in recorded fact she said. An excerpt of the Book has already been distributed to booksellers and has gained considerable and Vance attention. But in the excerpt at least it is often unclear which particular quotations were taken from other sources which were made up and which came directly from interviews. The Kennedy family is already gearing to denounce the Book. Last year Kennedy and three of his Sisters wrote an article for the oped Page of the new York times attacking Juk a reckless youth by Nigel Hamilton saying it presented a distorted View of relationships within their family. As for the last brother said Pamela Hughes a spokeswoman for Kennedy the Book s own pub usher admits that it s free form journalism. Senator Kennedy and his family did not cooperate with Joe Mcginniss in any aspect of this  the controversy is the latest in a series involving Mcginniss whose books include the Selling of the president 1968 Blind Faith and fatal vision. After fatal vision was published its subject Jeffrey Mac Donald a former Green Beret who was convicted of murdering his family sued Mcginniss contending that the author had charmed him into cooperating and then betrayed him with a damning portrait. Mcginniss eventually settled the Case paying Macdonald $325,000. The Case became the subject of a scathing series and Book by Janet Malcolm who herself was the defendant recently in a similar Case. Paperback reviews City of boys stories by Beth Nugent Vin Tage contemporaries. The hard edges of Bleak lives Shine in these stories which explore the fragility of relationships. Tho journals of John Che Over Ballantine. 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