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

The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...

''. 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 at Syracuse University, 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 and the first two years of

Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...

. 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 '' Miami Herald'' and the ''

Lakeland Ledger ''The Ledger'' is a daily newspaper serving Lakeland, Florida, and the Polk County area. The paper was founded on August 22, 1924, as the ''Lakeland Evening Ledger''. In 1927, it bought its main competitor, the morning ''Lakeland Star-Telegram ...

''. 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 African-American professional cyclist. Even by modern cycling standards, Taylor could be considered the greatest American sprinter of all time. He was born and raised ...

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 OUPInterview
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