Every Day Is Extra

Simon & Schuster. New. New Simon & Schuster, 2018-09-04 New 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 testified powerfully before Congress as a young veteran opposed to the war

Kerry served as a prosecutor in Massachusetts, then as lieutenant governor, and 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 Kerry returned to the Senate, chaired the important Foreign Relations Committee, and 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

Every Day Is Extra is Kerry's passionate, insightful, sometimes funny, always moving account of his life 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 deplores the hyper-partisanship that has infected Washington

Few books convey as convincingly as this one the life of public service like that which John Kerry has lived for fifty years Every Day Is Extra 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