Former Secretary of State and five-term US Senator John Kerry joins the roster of award-winning authors at Morristown Festival of Books! EVERY DAY IS EXTRA: AN EVENING WITH JOHN KERRY is an event you won’t want to miss, so mark your calendars now! Kerry will be speaking at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, October 12 at the Mayo Performing Arts Center, South Street, Morristown.
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.
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. Kerry will be speaking at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, October 12 at the Mayo Performing Arts Center, South Street, Morristown. Call the Mayo box office now at 973-539-8008 to order your tickets or purchase online here! Tickets are $50 for adults, $25 for students, and all adult tickets include a signed, hardcover copy of Every Day Is Extra. Kerry’s appearance is generously sponsored by Investors Bank.
The all-day, free main Festival takes place on Saturday, October 13. More than 50 award-winning and best-selling authors will speak and answer questions at five locales, all within walking distance of each other along South Street in historic Morristown, including St. Peter’s Church Sanctuary and Parish House, The Presbyterian Church Parish House, The Church of the Redeemer, the Morristown/Morris Township Library and the Starlight Room at the Mayo Performing Arts Center. Book sales and signings will occur at a tent on the grounds of the historic Vail Mansion. The free, all-day Saturday Festival is presented by Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management.
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