{"product_id":"four-friends-promising-lives-cut-short-9781250266309","title":"Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author William D. Cohan.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his masterful pieces for \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eFour Friends\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJack 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 Truman's grandson and the son of the managing editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, does everything possible to escape the burdens of a family legacy he's ultimately trapped by. Harry Bull builds the life of a careful, successful Chicago lawyer and heir to his family's 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 know--is told here with surprising new details that cast it in an entirely different light. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFour Friends\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Flatiron Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/08\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250266309\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384","brand":"William D. Cohan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39956645413045,"sku":"9781250266309","price":22.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_8a4e1cce-727e-4a64-bf37-d046858f3c51.jpg?v=1620221840","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/four-friends-promising-lives-cut-short-9781250266309","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}