If Kennedy Had Survived by Leonard Gross

Bend, Oregon author and playwright, Leonard Gross's gripping novel tells the story of the ghostwriter who is sent in to save JFK's memoirs from certain failure. This novel is based on interviews with more than fifty of JFK's closest friends, advisors and associates. Former LOOK Magazine editor, Leonard Gross brings the reader into the room with the President, as JFK tells his side. End Quote

Dallas, TX (1888PressRelease) November 14, 2013 - 50 Years Later: A JFK Novel Based on Fact

With the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination and in the shadow of the U.S. government shutdown one has to wonder. What would our country and the world look like today if JFK had not died in Dallas? Author, playwright and award-winning LOOK magazine journalist Leonard Gross answers that question, basing his new novel THE MEMOIRS OF JFK: If Kennedy Had Survived on fact rather than pure fiction.

Twenty years after JFK's assassination, Gross began conducting in-depth interviews with 50 sources-many of them members of the president's administration, some of them journalists he favored, a few of them JFK's close friends. Gross asked Kennedy's inner circle-which included historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Kennedy's best friend Red Fay-about past events, future plans and about the man himself, and then used their answers to shape his book.

The novel THE MEMOIRS OF JFK assumes that eight years after surviving the Dallas shooting, Kennedy has submitted a flawed memoir which skirts the conflicts in both his life and his presidency. A worried publisher sends in seasoned ghostwriter Asher Daniels to try and ferret out the real story along with the real man. Their combat is the engine of this novel. Kennedy ultimately tells all, then all but destroys the man who made him bare his soul.

Gross' own background sparked the idea for THE MEMOIRS OF JFK. "By the 1980s I had done a considerable amount of ghostwriting and was convinced of the form's potential for dramatic conflict between the celebrity whose story was to be told and the ghostwriter who had been hired to help him or her tell it," says Gross. "By this point I'd also become convinced that a single bullet, the one that shattered John Kennedy's head, had changed the course of history. I put on my reporter's hat and traveled the country, seeking the views of the people who had known JFK best. All of them seemed keen to reflect, perhaps because in doing so they were gaining perspective on how that bullet had changed their lives as well. It's that experience, I hope, that awaits each reader of THE MEMOIRS OF JFK."

No one, of course, can know for certain what decisions Kennedy would have taken, but given the nature of the man and his expressed intent, the world described in THE MEMOIRS OF JFK is one we might well have lived in had he survived Dallas.

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THE MEMOIRS OF JFK: If Kennedy Had Survived
Author: Leonard Gross
6" x 9"
147 pages

Contact: Joshua Queen
541-306-4404
Josh ( @ ) EastCoastWestPR dot com

http://www.EastCoastWestPR.com

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