TY - BOOK AU - Booker,Cory TI - United: thoughts on finding common ground and advancing the common good SN - 9781101965160 (hardcover : alk. paper) PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Ballantine Books KW - Booker, Cory. KW - Legislators KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Politics and government KW - 2009- KW - Newark (N.J.) N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -