Four friends : promising lives cut short
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New York : Flatiron Books, 2019.
Edition
First edition.
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369 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
973.922 COHAN 2019
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New York : Flatiron Books, 2019.
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Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English

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A powerful portrait of the lives of four boarding school graduates who died too young, John F. Kennedy, Jr. among them, by their fellow Andover classmate, New York Times bestselling author William D. Cohan. In his masterful pieces for Vanity Fair and in his bestselling books, William D. Cohan has proven to be one of the most meticulous and intrepid journalists covering the world of Wall Street and high finance. In his utterly original new book, Four Friends, he brings all of his brilliant reportorial skills to a subject much closer to home: four friends of his who died young. All four attended Andover, the most elite of American boarding schools, before spinning out into very different orbits. Indelibly, using copious interviews from wives, girlfriends, colleagues, and friends, Cohan brings these men to life on the page. Jack Berman, the child of impoverished Holocaust survivors, uses his unlikely Andover pedigree to achieve the American dream, only to be cut down in an unimaginable act of violence. Will Daniel, Harry Trumans grandson and the son of the managing editor of The New York Times, does everything possible to escape the burdens of a family legacy hes ultimately trapped by. Harry Bull builds the life of a careful, successful Chicago lawyer and heir to his familys fortune...before taking an inexplicable and devastating risk on a beautiful summer day. And the life and death of John F. Kennedy, Jr.a story we think we knowis told here with surprising new details that cast it in an entirely different light. Four Friends is an immersive, wide-ranging, tragic, and ultimately inspiring account of promising lives cut short, written with compassion, honesty, and insight. It not only captures the fragility of life but also its poignant, magisterial, and pivotal moments.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Cohan, W. D. (2019). Four friends: promising lives cut short (First edition.). Flatiron Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Cohan, William D. 2019. Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short. Flatiron Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Cohan, William D. Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short Flatiron Books, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Cohan, William D. Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short First edition., Flatiron Books, 2019.

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