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John F. Kerry: The Complete Biography: By the Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him BestBy Michael Kranish, Brian C. Mooney, and Nina J. Easton
The biography is a greatly expanded version of the in-depth profile of Kerry that the Globe ran in June 2003.
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"The nation of immigrants that Fred Kerry epitomized was prospering in 1921, while the Europe that he had left behind sixteen years earlier was coping with an assortment of crises, from the onset of communism to the gathering storm that would become known as Nazism. The grandfather of the future Senator John F. Kerry had earned—and had lost—two fortunes. Now he was working on his third.
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GLOBETALKS
Globe journalists held a free public discussion at Faneuil Hall May 13 about the biography and reporting on the 2004 campaign. |
Intellect drives positionsWhen John Forbes Kerry was chosen to deliver the class oration at his Yale graduation ceremony in 1966, he didn't intend to offer his fellow students "any eternal truth." His purpose, he wrote in his draft, was "to challenge and not to preach, to question and not to answer." But then Kerry switched course, threw out the speech, and delivered a prescient critique of US foreign policy in Vietnam.
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Kerry's link to Fonda gave him early fameJohn F. Kerry's rise to fame was affected by two people who could not have been more opposite: the actress and antiwar activist Jane Fonda, and President Richard M. Nixon. Both associations helped seal Kerry's early reputation as a scourge of the political right. |
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CHAT
Globe political reporter and biography co-author Michael Kranish chatted about the book with Boston.com users on April 28.
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