Since 2001, he has said they were ghost-written but refused to name the author.

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More reliable money came from modelling, from a number of autobiographies ghost-written, endorsing consumer products and commenting on the game on television.

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The fact that America's bestseller lists feature works written by academic authorities amongst the ghost-written memoirs and celebrity suck-up jobs should be cause for rejoicing.

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Paul claims the letters were ghost-written, and I believe him.

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But by the time the bill reached the floor of Congress the following summer, Mr Clinton denounced it as a watered down version of his own proposals, "plainly ghost-written" by the NRA, and "worse than current law".

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Some of them now qualify for the Order of Celebrityhood. (Not much more can be said of CEOs who pass off their ghost-written banalities in bookstores everywhere.) Is this noise really contributing to a base of public knowledge and reflection that makes for better and richer societies?

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But suffice to say it is a taut, well-written story, which manages to do something new and different with the traditional ghost story.

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