Summary of Dan & Elliot Kirschner Rather's What Unites Us

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Get the Summary of Dan & Elliot Kirschner Rather's What Unites Us in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In a collection of original essays, the venerated television journalist, Dan Rather, 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 brings to bear his decades of experience on the frontlines of the world's biggest stories, and offers listeners a way forward.

After a career spent as reporter and anchor for CBS News, where he interviewed every living president since Eisenhower and was on the ground for every major event, from the assassination of John F. Kennedy to Watergate to 9/11, Rather has also become a hugely popular voice of reason on social media, with nearly two million Facebook followers and an engaged new audience who help to make many of his posts go viral. With his famously plainspoken voice and a fundamental sense of hope, Rather has written the book to inspire conversation and listening, and to remind us all how we are ultimately united.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jan 24, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638150060

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Summary of Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner’s What Unites Us

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Contents

Insights from Preface

Insights from What Is Patriotism

Insights from The Vote

Insights from Dissent

Insights from The Press

ghts from Inclusion

Insights from Empathy

Insights from Immigration

Insights from Science

Insights from Books

Insights from The Arts

Insights from The Environment

Insights from Public Education

Insights from Service

Insights from Audacity

Insights from Steady

Insights from Courage

Insights from Preface

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Important norms of American life are being shattered, along with a unity of purpose. There are chasms of entrenched partisanship, growing inequality on income and