Every Day Is Extra
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Every Day Is Extra

  1. 624 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Every Day Is Extra

About this book

An instant New York Times bestseller, John Kerry’s revealing memoir offers “a detailed record of an important life…frank, thoughtful, and clearly written…A bittersweet reminder of what the country once demanded of its leaders” (The New York Times Book Review).

Every Day Is Extra is John Kerry’s candid personal story. A Yale graduate, Kerry enlisted in the US Navy in 1966, and served in Vietnam. He returned home highly decorated but disillusioned, and he testified powerfully before Congress as a young veteran opposed to the war. Kerry was elected to the Senate in 1984, eventually serving five terms. In 2004 he was the Democratic presidential nominee and came within one state—Ohio—of winning. He succeeded Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State in 2013. In that position he tried to find peace in the Middle East; dealt with the Syrian civil war while combatting ISIS; and negotiated the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate agreement.

“In these pages Kerry shows remarkable honesty, depth, even spirituality…There is remarkable poignancy—not the usual currency of the career politician and the country’s top diplomat” (The Boston Globe). A witness to some of the most important events of our recent history, Kerry tells wonderful stories about colleagues Ted Kennedy and John McCain, as well as President Obama and other major figures. He writes movingly of recovering his faith while in the Senate, and how he deplores the hyper-partisanship that has infected Washington.

Every Day Is Extra “draws back the curtain on a life you thought you knew, but turns out to be a bit different…A surprisingly personal book” (The Washington Post) that shows Kerry for the dedicated, witty, and authentic man that he is and provides forceful testimony for the importance of diplomacy and American leadership to address the increasingly complex challenges of a more globalized world.

Information

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781501178979
eBook ISBN
9781501178962
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Political Biographies
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. Author’s Note
  5. Chapter 1: Childhood
  6. Chapter 2: Bright College Years
  7. Chapter 3: Raising My Right Hand
  8. Chapter 4: War
  9. Chapter 5: The War at Home
  10. Chapter 6: Finding My Way
  11. Chapter 7: The Old Senate
  12. Chapter 8: Holding Washington Accountable
  13. Chapter 9: Making Peace
  14. Chapter 10: A Time of Transition
  15. Chapter 11: Cancer and Comebacks
  16. Chapter 12: Within a Whisper
  17. Chapter 13: Dusting Myself Off
  18. Chapter 14: New President, Broken Senate
  19. Chapter 15: Mr. Chairman
  20. Chapter 16: Diplomacy in a Dangerous World
  21. Chapter 17: Getting Caught Trying
  22. Chapter 18: Preventing a War 485
  23. Chapter 19: The Open Wound
  24. Chapter 20: Protecting the Planet
  25. Afterword
  26. Photographs
  27. Acknowledgments
  28. About the Author
  29. Index
  30. Image Credits
  31. Copyright

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