What unites us : reflections on patriotism / Dan Rather & Elliot Kirschner.
Material type: TextSeries: Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfictionPublisher: Farmington Hills, Michigan : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018Copyright date: © 2017Edition: Large Print editionDescription: 311 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781432846237
- 143284623X
- Reflections on patriotism
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Large Print Book | Main Library | Large Print NonFiction | 323.6509 R234 | Available | 33111008702249 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
With his famously plainspoken voice and a fundamental sense of hope, Dan Rather has written the book to inspire conversation and listening, and to remind us all how we are ultimately united. This book will be a must-read for everyone you know who is engaged in the urgent national conversation right now -- and interested in our place in history going forward.
"Published in 2018 by arrangement with Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, a division of Workman Publishing"-- T.p verso.
Preface: Night flights -- What is patriotism? -- The vote -- Dissent -- The press -- Inclusion -- Empathy -- Immigration -- Science -- Books -- The Arts -- The environment -- Public education -- Service -- Audacity -- Steady -- Courage.
At a moment of crisis over our national identity, journalist Dan Rather reflects on what it means to be an American. 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.