What Unites Us, Dan Rather
What Unites Us, Dan Rather
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What Unites Us
Reflections on Patriotism

Bestseller

Author: Dan Rather, Elliot Kirschner

Narrator: Dan Rather

Unabridged: 7 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/07/2017


Synopsis

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 will bring to bear his decades of experience on the frontlines of the world's biggest stories, and offer readers 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.

About Dan Rather

Dan Rather has received virtually every honor in broadcast journalism, including numerous Emmy Awards and the Peabody Award. He anchored CBS Evening News for twenty-four years. Rather is one of America's most decorated news journalists of all time. He is also the author of such bestsellers as Deadlines & Datelines, The Camera Never Blinks, and The Palace Guard.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve on September 26, 2024

There are approximately 245 million adults in the United States. I wish all of them would read this book. And if you were born after, say 1985ish, I definitely recommend you read Rather’s stories. It illustrates that this country has been through a lot of rough times in the distant and recent past an......more

Goodreads review by SimitudeSims on October 18, 2020

This is a beautiful and comforting book especially in these trying times.......more

Goodreads review by Clif on February 03, 2023

Part memoir, part social and political commentary, this book contains sixteen essays in which Dan Rather provides his reflections of patriotism. The essays are grouped in five broad topics; Freedom (essays on “The Vote”, “Dissent” and “The Press”), Community (essays on “Inclusion”, “Empathy”, and “I......more

Goodreads review by Monica on September 10, 2020

update 2020: I was looking though this book yesterday — what I’ve highlighted & pages I’ve dog-eared. If you need bit of comfort during this time, I highly recommend you pick this up. . . “I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do.” — What Unites Us: Reflections......more

Goodreads review by Amy on November 03, 2017

Dan Rather is a national treasure and a true patriot (not a nationalist, an important differentiation as he points out). I loved hearing about his childhood and landmark stories he covered like Watergate, but he does not go deep on these. I'll have to pick up Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News to......more