{"product_id":"united","title":"United","description":"Description for UNITED:  THOUGHTS ON FINDING COMMON GROUND AND ADVANCING THE COMMONG GOOD by Cory Booker: \u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nRaised in northern New Jersey, Cory Booker went to Stanford University on a football scholarship, accepted a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, then studied at Yale Law School. Graduating from Yale, his options were limitless.\r\n \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nHe chose public service.\r\n \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nHe chose to move to a rough neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, where he worked as a tenants’ rights lawyer before winning a seat on the City Council. In 2006, he was elected mayor, and for more than seven years he was the public face of an American city that had gone decades with too little positive national attention and investment. In 2013, Booker became the first African American elected to represent New Jersey in the U.S. Senate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n \r\nIn UNITED, Cory Booker draws on personal experience to issue a stirring call to reorient our nation and our politics around the principles of compassion and solidarity. He speaks of rising above despair to engage with hope, pursuing our shared mission, and embracing our common destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n \r\nHere is his account of his own political education, the moments—some entertaining, some heartbreaking, all of them enlightening—that have shaped his civic vision. Here are the lessons Booker learned from the remarkable people who inspired him to serve, men and women whose example fueled his desire to create opportunities for others. Here also are his observations on the issues he cares about most deeply, from race and crime and the crisis of mass incarceration to economic and environmental justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n \r\n“Hope is the active conviction that despair will never have the last word,” Booker writes in this galvanizing book. In a world where we too easily lose touch with our neighbors, he argues, we must remember that we all rise or fall together—and that we must move beyond mere tolerance for one another toward a deeper connection: love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Connies Bookshelf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42956597461208,"sku":"9781101965160","price":5.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0648\/9099\/4904\/products\/United965160.jpg?v=1655044621","url":"https:\/\/conniesbookshelf.com\/products\/united","provider":"Connies Bookshelf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}