What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism

✍ Scribed by Rather, Dan

• Book ID: 110006729
• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 219 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781616207847

✦ Synopsis

"I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do."
At a moment of crisis over our national identity, Dan Rather has been reflecting—and writing passionately almost every day on social media—about the world we live in, what our core ideals have been and should be, and what it means to be an American. Now, in a collection of wholly original essays, the venerated television journalist celebrates our shared values and what matters most in our great country, and shows us what patriotism looks like. Writing about the institutions that sustain us, such as public libraries, public schools, and national parks; the values that have transformed us, such as the struggle for civil rights; and the drive toward science and innovation that has made the United States great, Rather will bring to bear his decades of experience on the frontlines of the world's biggest stories, and offer readers a way forward.
After a career spent as...