Ben Bradlee Jr. graduated from Colby College. He served in the Peace Corps in Afghanistan from 1970-1972. When he returned to the United States in 1972, he went to work as a reporter for the Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise, remaining there until mid-1975. He spent 25 years, from 1979 to 2004, with The Boston Globe as a reporter then an editor. As a deputy managing editor, he oversaw the Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church and supervised the production of a book on the subject entitled Betrayal. He has written several books including The Ambush Murders, Prophet of Blood, Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North, and The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams.
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