Five Democratic senators throw a legal bombshell at the Supreme Court with unusual brief in gun case

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71. Not at all. They already know more than the writers. The writers are there to make their knowledge

more accessible to a wide audience in the 3rd largest country on the planet. That way, their cut comes from the publisher's wider marketing. Because the topic is greater than local or regional interest, it's of national interest.

Content is one thing -- Whitehouse's knowledge of corporate law's history of corruption of US democratic government players, legal decisions and governing.

Writing is another -- Wachtell Stinnett's knowledge of how to construct information arc through chaptering, paragraphing sequence to include weaving anecdote, quotes and concepts with legal events, smooth word choice style, varying of sentence length.

When you're a senator, president, etc., your job can be so demanding that the "crafting" of the message can be turned over to experienced crafters.

New Press out of New York, and/or Whitehouse, probably picked her from other possible writers. But they didn't pick him.

Then beta readers -- editors -- take the position of reader audience to further give input to the crafter, but not the content person.

I've received data and researchers' analyses in medical and education institutions, taken the content and written the analyses presentable for a lay audience. But I was in no way the brains of the content. I was the brains in writing organization and style, to the wider audience the researchers wanted to reach.

The above are a few of the current activities of publishing. They in no way impugn the intelligence of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, as evidenced by how all reviews that never give any co-writer co-equal recognition or review. Only name recognition.

That is because reviewers know that content originators are the foundation of publishing. No content, no writer. Content is not optional. Writer is optional. Or there might be lower sales if the content person does the writing.

Without Whitehouse, Wachtell Stinnett would have no resume as a co-author. She'd still be a former project manager out of Boston.

In fiction, the Clinton/Patterson book "The President is Missing" is another example. Clinto provides the content, character behaviors, motives, Patterson fits them into detective formula, and he admits he couldn't have co-written anything without the experience of President Clinton.

Seriously, I don't know why you'd persist in wanting to give Whitehouse a lower standing with Wachtell. It's clearly not a vanity project.

Have you read his book?