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    Every Day Is Extra
    Every Day Is Extra
    Every Day Is Extra
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    Every Day Is Extra

    Written by John Kerry

    Narrated by John Kerry

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateSep 4, 2018
    ISBN9781508266853
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    John Kerry

    John Forbes Kerry is a former Secretary of State and five-term US Senator. Kerry is the author of Every Day Is Extra, A Call to Service: My Vision for a Better America, The New War, and the best-selling This Moment on Earth. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow for Global Affairs at Yale University as well as the inaugural Visiting Distinguished Statesman for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, have two daughters, three sons, and seven grandchildren.

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    • 4/5
      5619. Every Day Is Extra, by John Kerry (read 11 Apr 2019) This is an autobiography and tells well of the busy life of the author, who was a Senator from Massachusetts for 28 years, the Democratic nominee for President in 2004 (if 35,000 in Ohio had voted for him instead of for George W. Bush he would have been elected), and Secretary of State during President Obama's second term. He tells well of his whole life (including his time in Vietnam and I found the book consistently interesting--though maybe a little overly detailed in regard to some of his efforts while Secretary, such as the fruitless quest to effect a peace between Israel and the Palestinians. One has to admire the sturdy work he did , especially while Secretary of State. We are fortunate that he did such good work, even though the present President seeks to undo some of it.
    • 4/5
      The former senator, presidential candidate and secretary of state has written a doorstopper, almost 600 pages long, but he has also led an extraordinary life. There were times early on when I contemplated putting this one down, but once Kerry started to talk about his time in Vietnam, he had me. He takes us through his service, his work with Vietnam Veterans Against the War and his entire political career. Kerry needed those 600 pages to tell his story and reveal something of himself. In fact, there are parts of his story he appropriately doesn't tell in detail, like the decline of his first marriage. He comes across as a very decent hard-working man dedicated to serving his country, similar to some of his friends like Joe Biden. I found his account of his 2004 presidential campaign very compelling but his descriptions of his efforts at diplomacy both as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as Secretary of State even more interesting. Kerry gives much credit to the career diplomats and foreign officials who worked with him on a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine problem, the JCPOA (Iran nuclear deal) and the Paris Climate Accords. Some of his behind the scenes accounts of decision making in the Obama White House show the President as the careful, calm decision maker he always seemed and Kerry's account of the JCPOA negotiations complement's Wendy Sherman's very well.