United : thoughts on finding common ground and advancing the common good /

Booker, Cory,

United : thoughts on finding common ground and advancing the common good / Cory Booker. - First edition. - 223 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Introduction: empathy, responsibility, action -- A conspiracy of love -- Talents -- Ms. Virginia Jones -- Do something -- My father's son -- I see you -- To Washington -- The high cost of cheap labor -- Law, order & accountability -- Incarceration nation -- My brother's keeper -- The law of the commons -- Epilogue: go far together.

An energetic new voice in American politics, United States Senator Cory Booker sounds a stirring call to reorient our civic discourse around the principles of empathy and solidarity. Telling candid, inspiring stories from his life and career, and imparting lessons learned from people who motivated him to serve, he speaks of rising above discord, tending to our shared resources, and embracing our common destiny. --Publisher.

9781101965160 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1101965169 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2015048415


Booker, Cory.


Legislators--United States--Biography.


United States--Politics and government--2009-
Newark (N.J.)--Biography.

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