rebecca76 's review for:

What Unites Us by Elliot Kirschner, Dan Rather
5.0

This was on my Christmas list and I happily received and started to read it. Each essay reminds you what the best of this country is about, he shares personal stories and talks about his own ignorance and evolution in regards to his views on race, discrimination and the realization that the idolized country of his youth was not the reality. Dan Rather has been in a front row seat for many historic, both good and bad, events for this country. He has traveled extensively, interviewed and asked tough questions. This book is full of meditations, insights and in some ways challenges on what it means to be a Patriot. Mr. Rather is well aware he is in the waning years of his life and makes a successful attempt at putting down on paper his hard won lessons about this country. I look forward to re reading these essays to fully digest and contemplate them.