{"id":1756,"date":"2010-05-10T12:32:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T17:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2010-05-10T12:37:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T17:37:43","slug":"american-conservative-on-the-barr-ghostwriting-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/10\/american-conservative-on-the-barr-ghostwriting-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"American Conservative on the Barr &#8217;08 Ghostwriting Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor Kelly Jane Torrance, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amconmag.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/10\/reading-lessons\/\"><strong>post<\/strong><\/a> titled, &#8220;Reading Lessons&#8221;: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBob Barr Lessons in Liberty #1 Pay Your Ghostwriter\u201d is how Jim Bovard headlines his post announcing that he\u2019s suing the former Libertarian Party presidential candidate. There might be a bigger lesson here, though: If you don\u2019t want people to know you didn\u2019t write your own book, pay your ghostwriter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBob Barr has once again made history. His is the only U.S. presidential campaign to ever be sued by its ghostwriter,\u201d TAC contributing editor Bovard writes. Most candidates like to keep the fact that they don\u2019t write their own quick-and-dirty campaign books at least nominally under wraps. Bovard contracted to write Barr\u2019s Lessons in Liberty in June 2008, and the book was released that fall to coincide with the former Republican congressman\u2019s Libertarian Party presidential campaign. Bovard was to be paid $77,000 for the book; he was only given $30,000. If the Barr campaign is having trouble coming up with the cash, maybe they should try selling copies of the book. There\u2019s only one for sale on Amazon right now, and it\u2019s going for $50.<\/p>\n<p>We wonder how Bob Barr came to appreciate Jim Bovard\u2019s prose. Could it have been when he reviewed Bovard\u2019s The Bush Betrayal for TAC? He wrote approvingly of the book, \u201cWith the thoroughly researched and footnoted style that has become his forte, and with the heavy doses of relevant anecdotes and dry humor that have become his trademarks, the author has compiled a virtual almanac of American political abuse.\u201d It was that year, 2004, that Barr left the Republican Party, said he regretted voting for the Patriot Act, and endorsed a Libertarian candidate. As he wrote, \u201cBovard lays out a convincing case.\u201d We\u2019re assuming, of course, that Barr actually wrote the review and didn\u2019t have a ghostwriter like, say, Bovard write it for him. 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