Ghostwriters

'Ever since I started reading Charles de Gaulle's memoirs as a young man, I have been fascinated by ghostwritten books. Though it was never definitely proved that the celebrated novelist Andre Malraux had collaborated on these works with the equally great French statesman, I was more than willing to believe rumors spread by his detractors, both young and old, because the writing was electrifyingly entertaining, and de Gaulle did not seem like an electrifyingly entertaining kind of guy. By farming out his life's story to a titan of French literature, de Gaulle seemed to be saying, ''I've got the dinero; go fetch the Camaro.''' Was this article ghostwritten?