![]() ![]() Kerry is up against the odds with Every Day is Extra. Paul’s classmates, Robert Swan Mueller III. ![]() They should have learned from people like Kerry. Today’s meritocratic elites want power without responsibility. ![]() Every Day Is Extra is a bittersweet reminder of what the country once demanded of its leaders, and what the American upper classes once aspired to supply. This is Buddenbrooks via Louis Auchincloss, told by someone in the tomb where it happened. As the chapters proceed, the narrator seems increasingly a man out of time, a ghost from an age when class meant something more than money. There are a few mini-revelations, but what lingers are not the parts but the whole not the life, but the man. Aspiring candidates and officials will find good career advice wonks will appreciate the ticktocks of negotiations on Israel, Iran and climate change cynics will see it as a trial balloon for one last run. ![]() Like others in its genre, it is long and slow, but it is frank, thoughtful and clearly written. Every Day Is Extra offers a detailed record of an important life, a dutiful recounting of long-forgotten triumphs and setbacks, and a high-minded coda about the virtues of public service. John Kerry has written a solid political memoir. ![]()
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