Two years ago, Paul Alexander wrote a piece for Rolling Stone magazine that now seems prophetic: he named John Kerry as the candidate who would emerge as the Democratic front-runner in 2004, and, more than a year before Kerry announced his candidacy, identified the reasons why. Since then, Mr. Alexander has been following the campaign—often from a privileged position on the inside. This book will report what he saw, heard and witnessed about Senator Kerry and his campaign all along the way.

Veteran Political Journalist and Biographer Paul Alexander has been granted unprecedented access to Senator Kerry, his senior campaign team, members of his inner circle, his wife, and other family members. The new book from Riverhead Books will go on sale at the start of the Democratic Convention in July 2004

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