Larry Tye is the New York Times bestselling author of Bobby Kennedy and Satchel, as well as Demagogue, Superman, The Father of Spin, Home Lands, and Rising from the Rails, and coauthor, with Kitty Dukakis, of Shock. Previously an award-winning reporter at the Boston Globe and a Nieman fellow at Harvard University, he now runs the Boston-based Health Coverage Fellowship. He lives on Cape Cod.
"""[Tye] has a keen gift for narrative storytelling and an ability to depict his subject with almost novelistic emotional detail."" -- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, on Bobby Kennedy ""Tye captures 'Low Blow Joe' in all his shambolic ingloriousness . . . The result is an epic expose that . . . will leave [readers] shaking their heads over the rise and fall of the greatest demagogue in American history, with the possible exception of the current White House incumbent."" -- Boston Globe, on Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy ""Rescuing an icon from the edge of oblivion is no easy task; making room for him in the collective memory is harder still. But revealing his profound influence on our social and cultural institutions today requires insight and imagination. Larry Tye has both."" -- San Francisco Chronicle, on Rising from the Rails: The Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class ""[Mr. Tye] succeeds wonderfully in illustrating the often creepy power of our opinion makers."" -- New York Times, on The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations ""Knowing Satchel Paige is knowing nobody like him. This is a superb book about an outstanding man."" -- Yogi Berra on Satchel"