This is a personal audiobook, sometimes angry, sometimes funny, always moving. Kerry returned to the Senate and endorsed Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in 2008, and when Clinton resigned in 2012 to run for the presidency, Kerry was confirmed as Secretary of State. In that position he tried - and, like all his predecessors, failed - to find peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (he is critical of both sides but especially Prime Minister Netanyahu) dealt with the Syrian civil war and the rise of ISIS negotiated the Iran nuclear deal and signed the Paris climate accord. In Every Day Is Extra, he explains why he chose not to contest widespread voting irregularities in Ohio, fearing that after the 2000 election went to the US Supreme Court, another challenge would undermine confidence in the voting system. Bush and came within one state - Ohio - of winning. In 2004 he ran for president against the incumbent George W. He played an active role in the BCCI and Iran-Contra matters. Unlike most senators, who travel on foreign junkets for 'fact-finding missions', Kerry travelled to the Philippines and, based on what he learned, helped to orchestrate the peaceful transition from Ferdinand Marcos to the duly elected Corazon Aquino government. Kerry’s service in the Senate was distinguished. His friendship with the Kennedy family gave him valuable contacts, but he earned his victory by campaigning hard. Kerry served as a prosecutor in Massachusetts, then as Massachusetts lieutenant governor, and was elected to the Senate in 1984. He returned home disillusioned, became active against the war, and testified in Congress as a 27-year-old veteran who opposed the war. He commanded river patrols - swift boats - and was highly decorated, but he discovered that the truth about what was happening in Vietnam was different from what the government was reporting. A child of privilege, Kerry went to private schools and Yale, then enlisted in the US Navy during the Vietnam War. The title comes from a saying he and his buddies had in Vietnam. Every Day Is Extra is John Kerry’s personal story.

Every Day is Extra by John Kerry