Charles Kenney, Author . Public Affairs $26 (331p) ISBN 978-1-58648-310-4
Author (The Last Man
; Keep Faith, Change the Church
) and former Boston Globe
journalist Kenney uses the events of Boston's 1942 Cocoanut Grove Fire ("the greatest fire in the city's history"), to which his grandfather responded as
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Jack Cochran, M.D., and Charles Kenney. Public Affairs, $23.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-61039-443-7
Cochran, executive director of the Permanente Federation, and former Boston Globe editor Kenney (Transforming Health Care) argue that while health care reform talk may be loudest among politicians in Washington, doctors have a pivotal role to play...
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Charles Kenney, Author . Ballantine $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-449-00588-0
Everyone seems to be haunted by the past in this competently written but overly schematic thriller. In a Boston doctor's office, Greta Wahljak stares at an old man named Schiller and recognizes him as Friedrich Schillinghausen, the last man...
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Charles Kenney, Author Simon & Schuster $21.5 (303p) ISBN 978-0-671-89697-3
Smart, tightly written and full of compelling background details, Kenney's debut earns a place near the head of the crime fiction pack. The story begins with the murder of Philip Stewart, Boston city councilman and a political icon with an...
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Charles Kenney, Author, Robert L. Turner, With Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-395-47089-3
The Democratic governor of Massachusetts is regarded as a neoliberal technocrat, concerned with people, but careful with dollars, according to the authors. Part of this reputation was developed during his first term, when in 1974 Dukakis took office
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Charles C. Kenny, Author, Charles Kenney, Author Little Brown and Company $22.95 (323p) ISBN 978-0-316-48919-5
Chinese immigrant An Wang, a Harvard Ph.D. and computer pioneer, turned a Boston storefront operation into one of the legendary success stories in the computer industry. But by 1985 the glory years at Wang Laboratories had given way to a downward...
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Charles Kenney, Author Ballantine Books $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-43294-0
Deception, greed and betrayal drive this well-plotted, moving thriller. Rough-edged but appealing Jack Devlin, a Harvard Law grad who's now a detective with the Boston police, has been assigned to covertly investigate suspected corruption in the BPD
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Charles Kenney. Arcade, $27.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-956763-98-0
Healthcare journalist and novelist Kenney (Leading Through a Pandemic) delivers a compassionate chronicle of three baby boomers who met as Harvard students in the 1970s as they contend with today’s changing world. Rob Barrow, now a law professor at...
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