Larry Tye (Author of Satchel)

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Larry Tye is a New York Times bestselling author whose most recent book is a biography of Robert F. Kennedy, the former attorney general, U.S. senator, and presidential candidate. Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon explores RFK鈥檚 extraordinary transformation from cold warrior to fiery leftist.

Tye鈥檚 first book, The Father of Spin, is a biography of public relations pioneer Edward L.Bernays. Home Lands looks at the Jewish renewal underway from Boston to Buenos Aires. Rising from the Rails explores how the black men who worked on George Pullman鈥檚 railroad sleeping cars helped kick-start the Civil Rights movement and gave birth to today鈥檚 African-American middle class. Shock, a collaboration with Kitty Dukakis, is a journalist鈥檚 first- Larry Tye is a New York Times bestselling author whose most recent book is a biography of Robert F. Kennedy, the former attorney general, U.S. senator, and presidential candidate. Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon explores RFK鈥檚 extraordinary transformation from cold warrior to fiery leftist.

Tye鈥檚 first book, The Father of Spin, is a biography of public relations pioneer Edward L.Bernays. Home Lands looks at the Jewish renewal underway from Boston to Buenos Aires. Rising from the Rails explores how the black men who worked on George Pullman鈥檚 railroad sleeping cars helped kick-start the Civil Rights movement and gave birth to today鈥檚 African-American middle class. Shock, a collaboration with Kitty Dukakis, is a journalist鈥檚 first-person account of electro-convulsive therapy (ECT), psychiatry鈥檚 most controversial treatment, and a portrait of how that therapy helped one woman overcome debilitating depression. Satchel is the biography of two American icons 鈥� Satchel Paige and Jim Crow. Superman tells the nearly-real life story of the most enduring American hero of the last century.

In addition to his writing, Tye runs the Boston-based Health Coverage Fellowship, which helps the media do a better job reporting on critical issues like public health, mental health, and high-tech medicine. Launched in 2001 and supported by a series of foundations, the fellowship trains a dozen medical journalists a year from newspapers,radio stations, and TV outlets nationwide.

From 1986 to 2001, Tye was an award-winning reporter at The Boston Globe, where his primary beat was medicine. He also served as the Globe鈥檚 environmental reporter, roving national writer, investigative reporter, and sports writer. Before that, he was the environmental reporter at The Courier-Journal in Louisville, and covered government and business at The Anniston Star in Alabama.

Tye, who graduated from Brown University, was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1993-94. He taught journalism at Boston University, Northeastern, and Tufts. ...more

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	Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend 4.07 avg rating — 2,823 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon 4.39 avg rating — 2,565 ratings — published 2016 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Superman: The High-Flying History of the Man of Steel 3.91 avg rating — 1,316 ratings — published 2012 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy 3.94 avg rating — 824 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class 4.07 avg rating — 415 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and The Birth of Public Relations 3.91 avg rating — 381 ratings — published 1998 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America 4.07 avg rating — 210 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“the cartoonist Jules Feiffer, who saw Bobby Kennedy鈥檚 constellation of contradictions not as old versus new but as good versus bad. He called his schizophrenic senator the 鈥淏obby twins,鈥� explaining that 鈥渢he Good Bobby is a courageous reformer. The Bad Bobby makes deals. The Good Bobby sent federal troops down south to enforce civil rights. The Bad Bobby appointed racist judges down South to enforce civil rights. The Good Bobby is a fervent civil libertarian. The Bad Bobby is a fervent wire tapper. The Good Bobby is ill at ease with liberals. The Bad Bobby is ill at ease with grownups.”
― Larry Tye, Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon

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“The sound of their evolving jazz dialect formed a cultural fulcrum that no outraged protester or government-issued desegregation order could begin to achieve.”
― Larry Tye, The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America

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“use humor to disarm those who think they hate you, then dazzle them with your talent.”
― Larry Tye, Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend

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