Separated, Jacob Soboroff
Separated, Jacob Soboroff
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Separated
Inside an American Tragedy

Bestseller

Author: Jacob Soboroff

Narrator: Jacob Soboroff

Unabridged: 10 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 07/07/2020


Synopsis

From the award-winning NBC News and MSNBC correspondent comes a powerful and deeply reported journey to lay bare the full truth behind the defining moral crisis of the Trump years: the systematic separation of thousands of desperate migrant families at the US-Mexico border
In June 2018, Donald Trump’s most notorious decision as president had secretly been in effect for months before most Americans became aware of the astonishing inhumanity being perpetrated by their own government. Jacob Soboroff was among the first journalists to expose this reality after seeing firsthand the living conditions of the children in custody. His influential series of reports ignited public scrutiny that contributed to the president reversing his own policy and earned Soboroff the Cronkite Award for Excellence in Political Broadcast Journalism and, with his colleagues, the 2019 Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism.But beyond the headlines, the complete, multilayered story lay untold. How, exactly, had such a humanitarian tragedy—now deemed “torture” by physicians—happened on American soil? Most important, what has been the human experience of those separated children and parents?Soboroff has spent the past two years reporting the many strands of this complex narrative, developing sources from within the Trump administration who share critical details for the first time. He also traces the dramatic odyssey of one separated family from Guatemala, where their lives were threatened by narcos, to seek asylum at the U.S. border, where they were separated—the son ending up in Texas, and the father thousands of miles away, in the Mojave desert of central California. And he joins the heroes who emerged to challenge the policy, and who worked on the ground to reunite parents with children.In this essential reckoning, Soboroff weaves together these key voices with his own experience covering this national issue—at the border in Texas, California, and Arizona; with administration officials in Washington, D.C., and inside the disturbing detention facilities. Separated lays out compassionately, yet in the starkest of terms, its human toll, and makes clear what is at stake in the 2020 presidential election.

About Jacob Soboroff

Jacob Soboroff is an NBC News Political and National Correspondent. His first book, Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, was a New York Times bestseller, and it was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist and an American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award Finalist. Separated was adapted into an acclaimed film by Academy Award-winner Errol Morris. For his reporting on the child-separation policy, Soboroff received the Walter Cronkite Award for Individual Achievement by a National Journalist and the Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism. He lives in Los Angeles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessaka on July 14, 2020

Bleeding Hearts Usually, I have an idea of what I am going to say about a book, but this time I am at a loss for words, so I thought that I would just sit here and try to write. I remember when it first came to light that Trump was separating mothers and fathers from their children, and I mentioned i......more

Goodreads review by Tyler on July 19, 2020

I feel a little bad at rating this 3 stars because the subject matter is important and there’s a lot that’s good in this book. My issues with the book are generally related to the writing/delivery not content. How do you write an entire book about family separation and not make it crystal clear that......more

Goodreads review by Joe on July 23, 2020

This title is pitched as a deep dive into the Trump administration's draconian policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the southern U.S. border, but it's instead somewhat narrowly focused on author Jacob Soboroff's personal experiences investigating that story, including tedious......more

Goodreads review by Melanie on July 25, 2020

If you think you know what twisted reasoning and actions led our government to kidnap, imprison, separate parents from children, lie to and cheat asylum-seekers at our southern border - trust me, you don't. After you read this book, both objective and personal (because what human being wouldn't get......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on August 16, 2020

I didn’t finish the book, but I’m finished with it. I found it difficult to read, not because of the sad content, but the writer seemed to be all over the place. He said was following 4 different families, but one one appeared early on, and then nothing. Just a chronological account of what Trump’s......more