Season two of Homeland is set about six months after the events of the first season finale with Brody a newly-minted Congressman for Virginia and Carrie, now an ESL teacher, working with the CIA in Lebanon.
The passing of former Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke III, at age 95, gave obituary writers and political commentators a rare opportunityâperhaps one of the lastâto put together the words âliberal Republican.â
Brooke divorced in 1978 and married Anne Fleming in 1979. Brooke and his second wife had a son, Edward W. Brooke IV. Brooke declined offers to join established law firms, choosing instead to start his own practice in the predominantly AfricanâAmerican community of Roxbury.