A review by lovesarahmae
United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good by Cory Booker

4.0

Cory Booker has been rising the ranks of social justice and politics for years now. I had heard his work in Newark NJ was more grass roots than politics, and I wanted to know what this rising star liberal was bringing into Congress. Turns out Booker is bringing a lot. This book is a get to know me letter to the country, an overwhelming honest recount of Booker's time and works thus far, and a call for what must come in the light of not just a Trump Presidency, but in addressing the very real issues that resulted in our heighten and stressed electoral process this go around. I had very much wanted for this book, which I listened to (it's read by the author) to be the first book I finished this year - but this is not to be rushed through. Booker's work is to be read diligently, digested, and reflected upon in discernment - for it is a text for our social justice movement, and a key marker for the next few years in America.