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An energetic new voice in American politics, United States Senator Cory Booker sounds a stirring call to reorient our civic discourse around the principles of empathy and solidarity. Telling candid, inspiring stories from his life and career, and imparting lessons learned from people who motivated h...

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Main Author: Booker, Cory (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Ballantine Books, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
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Booker, Cory.
Legislators > United States > Biography.
United States > Politics and government > 2009-
Newark (N.J.) > Biography.
Autobiographies.
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Summary:An energetic new voice in American politics, United States Senator Cory Booker sounds a stirring call to reorient our civic discourse around the principles of empathy and solidarity. Telling candid, inspiring stories from his life and career, and imparting lessons learned from people who motivated him to serve, he speaks of rising above discord, tending to our shared resources, and embracing our common destiny. --Publisher
Physical Description:223 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:9781101965160 (hardcover)
1101965169 (hardcover)
Author Notes:CORY BOOKER is the United States Senator from New Jersey. Born in Washington, D.C., his parents worked for IBM and relocated the family to Harrington Park, NJ. A star high school athlete, Booker earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Stanford, where he also played for the football team. While at college, Booker ran a crisis hotline for students and worked with disadvantaged youth in East Palo Alto. He then attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar before earning his law degree from Yale. Booker won a special election to fill the term of the late Senator Frank Lautenberg to become became New Jersey's first African-American senator and only the 21st person in American history to go straight from Mayor to Senator.

Booker lives in Newark's Central Ward community.

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