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 Truman's
grandson and the son of the managing editor of The New York Times,
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.
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.
