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Michael Kranish

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The Real Romney
 

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Michael Kranish

Michael Kranish, deputy chief of the Boston Globe’s Washington Bureau, has been a congressional reporter, White House correspondent and national political reporter. He has produced major articles about the history of the Bush family and Senator John F. Kerry. Kranish co-authored, with other Globe reporters, John F. Kerry: The Complete Biography, which was a New York Times and Washington Post bestseller. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War.



 

Scott Helman

Scott Helman is the former political editor of the Boston Globe, where he has worked as a reporter and editor for ten years. Previously he was a national political reporter, serving as the paper’s lead writer on the 2008 presidential campaign. He chronicled the meteoric rise of Mitt Romney and wrote extensively about Barack Obama. He has been a frequent guest analyst on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR.  
 



 

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The Real Romney
The Real Romney
Michael Kranish
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  • 1/10/2012
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"The Real Romney pulls together lots of details into a narrative that's absorbing and fair-minded."


- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Balanced and rigorous reporting on Romney's life and career. . . . The authors are especially good on his close relationship with his father, a three-term Michigan governor who unsuccessfully ran for president in 1968."


- USA Today
"The Real Romney lays out Romney's story in full and clear detail, including fascinating in-depth stuff about his family's history. . . . This book shows us a Mitt Romney for whom family and faith remain unshakable pillars and who knows that his 'power-ally is money.'"


- The Los Angeles Times
"A timely, balanced new biography. . . . An impressively researched and thought-provoking portrait of a man many Americans may want to know more about in the coming weeks and months."


- The Boston Globe
"Kranish and Helman are veteran and well-regarded reporters. . . . They give a comprehensive account of the Bain years -- the greatest contribution of their book."


- Michael Tomasky, The New York Review of Books
"The writers, two senior journalists at The Boston Globe, have thoroughly trawled through the would-be-president's history, and indeed that of his zealous Mormon ancestors. The book charts the various stages of Romney's polymorphic life in impressive detail. . . . All this is well done. The analysis of Romney's time at Bain is balanced and fair."


- The Economist
"Kranish and Helman have done a good job of finding and interviewing people who knew Romney at various early stages of his life. . . . They deserve credit for a well-balanced and thorough campaign biography."


- The Washington Independent Review of Books
"Michael Kranish and Scott Helman, veteran Boston Globe reporters, have assembled a genuinely compelling story and a more thorough record of Romney's life than has yet appeared. . . . The mass of evidence and insight they've gathered reveals a man who has devoted himself not to elaborating a new politics but to doggedly making the philosophy of his father come to life."


- The Washington Post
"A fascinating story [that] sheds new light on an elusive subject. . . . It illustrates well how in his private life and in business, he has relied on a tight, protective circle all his life. . . . This biography helps to explain why he still struggles to free himself from the shackles of his stereotype."


- The Financial Times
"A comprehensive and eminently fair-minded biography of the GOP's fitful frontrunner."


- The New Republic
"An excellent biography."


- David Frum, The Daily Beast
"Balanced and informative. . . A well-written and useful resource for Romneyana great and small."


- Louis Menand, The New Yorker
"The great service of this new biography is that it humanizes Romney. The authors sniff over their subject with bloodhound thoroughness, dredging up old report cards, housing deeds, and family records and videos. They interview seemingly everyone who had contact with Romney in every phase of his life."


- The New York Times Book Review
"Who is the real Mitt Romney? This well-researched biography by two Boston Globe reporters offers useful clues."


- Katha Pollitt, The Guardian