I'll be buying it!
On page 135 Burkett writes about Kerry's phoney throwing of his "medals". He also says "Kerry did not return from Vietnam a radical antiwar activist. Friends said that when Kerry first began talking about running for office, he was not visibly agitated about the Vietnam War. "I thought of him as a rather normal vet," a friend said to a reporter.
Burkett also writes that "Kerry's emotional, from-the-heart speech had been carefully crafted by a speechwriter for Robert Kennedy named Adam Walinsky, who also tutored Kerry on how to present it".
My personal opinion of John Kerry is that he is a mentally unbalanced man who has had an almost stalking like desire to become John F. Kennedy. And that since he met Kennedy as a young man Kerry has seen himself as the same as JFK. I think John Kerry is a person that has delusions of grandeur and thinks he has some manifest destiny to be the president. But never had the chance until a series of strange events put him within reach of the presidency. If not for the manufactured insanity of the 2000 election and the generated hatred of George W. Bush Kerry would never be in the running. I also think that the Clinton's "supported" Kerry because they already knew that they could cut Kerry to pieces with his Vietnam history.