Full name: What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism

Author: Dan Rather Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781616207823 1616207825

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do.” —Dan Rather At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity, reflecting on—and writing passionately about—what it means to be an American. Now, with this collection of original essays, he reminds us of the principles upon which the United States was founded. Looking at the freedoms that define us, from the vote to the press; the values that have transformed us, from empathy to inclusion to service; the institutions that sustain us, such as public education; and the traits that helped form our young country, such as the audacity to take on daunting challenges in science and medicine, Rather brings to bear his decades of experience on the frontlines of the world’s biggest stories. As a living witness to historical change, he offers up an intimate view of history, tracing where we have been in order to help us chart a way forward and heal our bitter divisions. With a fundamental sense of hope, What Unites Us is the book to inspire conversation and listening, and to remind us all how we are, finally, one. Similar books: A Power Governments Cannot Suppress by Howard Zinn Uncovering Clinton by Michael Isikoff Heroes by John Pilger Distant Voices by John Pilger Corruptions of Empire by Alexander Cockburn The Time of Our Lives by Tom Brokaw Miami and the Siege of Chicago by Norman Mailer The Next Century by David Halberstam Generation of Swine by Hunter S. Thompson Salvador by Joan Didion Imperial America by Gore Vidal The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens Things That Matter by Charles Krauthammer Songs of the Doomed by Hunter S. Thompson Longitudes and Attitudes by Thomas L. Friedman