 They later were revealed to have been ghostwritten by Walter J. Sheldon and then Robert Westbrook.Despite his lifelong reputation for political liberalism, morally Allen was highly critical of vulgarity on both television and radio, and particularly strident in criticizing Howard Stern and other shock jocks.At the time of his death he was completing a book on the subject called "Vulgarians at the Gate," about what he saw as "the rising tide of smut on television."