Michael Kranish is an American author and former correspondent with ''

The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe,'' also known locally as ''the Globe'', is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes. ''The Boston Globe'' is the oldest and largest daily new ...

''. He joined ''

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'' in 2016, where he is an investigative political reporter.

Biography

A graduate of the

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (Maxwell School) is the professional public policy school of Syracuse University, a private research university in Syracuse, New York. The school is organized in 11 academic departments and 1 ...

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, Michael Kranish joined the ''Boston Globe'' in 1984. He worked in the newspaper's Washington Bureau and was the White House reporter during the last two years of the presidency of

George H. W. Bush George Herbert Walker BushBefore the outcome of the 2000 United States presidential election, he was usually referred to simply as "George Bush" but became more commonly known as "George H. W. Bush", "Bush Senior," "Bush 41," and even "Bush th ...

and the first two years of

Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, ...

. He was the paper's national political reporter during the 1996 and 2000 campaigns. His other assignments with the ''Globe'' have included congressional reporter, New England reporter, and business writer. He previously worked for the ''

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'' and the ''

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''. He is the co-author (with Brian C. Mooney, and Nina J. Easton) of a biography of Senator John Kerry, ''John F. Kerry: The Complete Biography by the Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best'', and the author of a history of Thomas Jefferson, ''Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War''. He is co-author with ''Globe'' writer Scott Helman of ''The Real Romney''. Kranish joined the ''Washington Post'' in January 2016. With co-author Marc Fisher and supervised by ''The Washington Post'' editor Marty Baron, Kranish authored the biography, '' Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power''. Kranish authored a book about the African-American cyclist

Major Taylor Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor (November 26, 1878 – June 21, 1932) was an American professional Cycle sport, cyclist. He has been called "the first Black American global sports superstar." He was born and raised in Indianapolis, where he wor ...

in 2019, titled '' The World's Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero.'' Taylor won the world championship in 1899, and raced across the United States, Europe and Australia, overcoming racist efforts to ban him at the height of the Jim Crow era. Kranish is the 2016 winner of the Society of Professional Journalists award for Washington Correspondence.

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''Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War'' at OUP
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