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Publisher's Summary
Two friends - a Democrat and a Republican - travel across America "on a deeply personal journey through the heart of a divided nation...to find growth, hope and fundamental strength in their own lives" (Bob Woodward) and the country they love, in good times and bad.
In the year before Donald Trump was elected president, Jordan Blashek, a Republican Marine, and Chris Haugh, a Democrat and son of a single mother from Berkeley, CA, formed an unlikely friendship. Jordan was fresh off his service in the Marines and feeling a bit out of place at Yale Law School. Chris was yearning for a sense of mission after leaving Washington, DC.
Over the months, Jordan and Chris' friendship blossomed not in spite of, but because of, their political differences. So they decided to hit the road in search of reasons to strengthen their bond in an era of strife and partisanship. What follows is a three-year adventure story, across 44 states and along 20,000 miles of road to find out exactly where the American experiment stands at the close of the second decade of the 21st century.
In their search, Jordan and Chris go from the tear-gas-soaked streets of a Trump rally in Phoenix, Arizona, to the Mexican highways running between Tijuana and Juarez. They witness the full scope of American life, from lobster trawlers and jazz clubs of Portland and New Orleans to the streets of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the prisons of Detroit, where former addicts and inmates painstakingly put their lives back together.
Union is a road narrative, a civics lesson, and an unforgettable window into one epic friendship. We ride along with Jordan and Chris for the whole journey, listening in on front-seat arguments and their conversations with Americans from coast to coast. We also peer outside the car to understand America's hot-button topics, including immigration, mass incarceration, and the military-civilian divide.
And by the time Jordan and Chris kill the engine for the last time, they answer one of the most pressing questions of our time: How far apart are we really?
Critic Reviews
"Union takes readers on a deeply personal journey through the heart of a divided nation. Haugh and Blashek discover an instinct to endure and improve that is shared by the left, the right, and the ever-narrowing center, and detail Americans' abilities to find growth, hope, and fundamental strength in their own lives." (Bob Woodward, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author)
"In the great tradition of American road trip sagas, Chris and Jordan set out across America. Two young people with different politics and outlooks, they were able to see the cool and inspiring things that bind us as a nation. Now more than ever, this is an important book-and also an enjoyable one!" (Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs)
"More than ever, America needs people like Chris and Jordan to teach and inspire us to build our own bridges across the diverse experiences and perspectives that make up our great country. Union is a book for anyone who believes in the future of America, despite this moment of polarization and divided politics. This beautiful travel log gives us hope for a more optimistic shared future." (Kerry Healey, President of the Center for the Advancement of the American Dream, former Lt. Governor of Massachusetts (R)
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- Max
- 09-22-20
Great Read
We follow two best friends with opposing political views across the country to meet its diverse and opinionated people. Some in real struggles to change their lives, better their lives.
There are a few fights between the friends, centering on their candid discussions about differing views on race, policing, climate, and also the struggle to be heard as more than just a Republican or a Democrat. I actually would have like more of those conversations!
The writing is poetic and ultimately we come away feeling very hopeful that we can find common ground.
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- Adam
- 08-15-20
Inspiring concept written wonderfully
In a world where unfriending seems more prevalent than befriending, a story in search for a more perfect Union is just the prescription. The story of understanding perspective while striving for hope combined with Chris and Jordan’s eloquent writing make this a 5 star recommendation.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-03-20
Two douchbags go on road trips
This book is about two rich kids who have differing political preferences basically sharing topical arguments they have in the car.
A good read for any perp school 15 year old. I wasn't impressed with any of the findings and didn't really care for either of the guys.
An unnecessary and pointless read. As far as the audio goes... it is well read.
Maybe insightful for wealthy out of touch Americans who may learn something from the different folks met in the stories.
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- Elaine M Aldrete
- 11-10-20
Inspiring hope and unity
This is a hopeful piece of work. I wanted to listen because I was not feeling very connected to people in our immediate community or with people across our nation. I had people in my life who I had thought were friends and they turned out to be more like acquaintances. This is/was mostly due to political differences. I wondered how, per the title, a Democrat and a Republican could be friends since our entire country seems so divided. Without giving any of the details of the journey away, I can say that what Jordan and Chris share left me feeling inspired and hopeful that I and others can find peace and unity.
I believe that this book is for everyone who desires to put the division that has plagued our country behind and anyone who wants see that a difference of opinion is just that. We should be able to sit down and talk to one another. We may disagree yet it does not make us enemies.
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- Shandra McClanahan
- 10-12-20
the story our country needs
the story of coming together from two different sides and learning to understand the other side. the only hope for our country.
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- Arnekins
- 10-02-20
it's even better as an audiobook
it's a great listen, and a great reader. I highly recommend the audio version of this book
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- By: Stephen Markley
- Narrated by: Corey Brill, Danny Campbell, Gibson Frazier, and others
- Length: 40 hrs and 39 mins
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In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat.
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Couldn’t get into it.
- By Review Reviewer on 01-20-23
By: Stephen Markley
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Mothertrucker
- Finding Joy on the Loneliest Road in America
- By: Amy Butcher
- Narrated by: Amy Butcher
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Amy Butcher was an accomplished college professor, mentor, and writer, but in her own home, she was embarrassed and emotionally burdened by an increasingly abusive relationship. Exhausted and terrified of the ways her partner’s behavior could escalate, Amy reached out to Instagram celebrity Joy “Mothertrucker” Wiebe. Joy was a 50-year-old wife and mother and the nation’s only female ice road trucker, a woman who maneuvered big rigs through the Alaskan wilderness along the deadliest road in America.
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Not accurate
- By Mrs H on 11-13-21
By: Amy Butcher
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99% True
- Almost a National Bestseller
- By: Paul McGowan
- Narrated by: Paul McGowan
- Length: 14 hrs
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Paul McGowan tells all (and then some) in this riotous tale of misbegotten success that’s 99 percent true in all the best ways. From his not-so-innocent youth growing up in the shadow of Disneyland and summer evenings in the innocent 1950s, to his dope-smoking, snake-eating, draft-dodging, loony-bin misadventure through Europe, to his struggles to build a thriving enterprise from a stack of dusty albums - see how the CEO of a worldwide company took 50 years to become an overnight success.
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Not at all what I was expecting!!! And that’s a good thing.
- By Jeff Hanson on 06-27-19
By: Paul McGowan
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The Company You Keep
- By: Neil Gordon
- Narrated by: Donald Corren, Hillary Huber, Kirby Heyborne, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
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Set against the rise and fall of the radical antiwar group the Weather Underground, The Company You Keep is a sweeping American saga about sacrifice, the ecstatic righteousness of youth, and the tension between political ideals and family loyalties. When Jason Sinai, one of the last Vietnam-era fugitives still wanted on murder charges for a robbery gone wrong in 1974, encounters a young newspaper reporter in search of a story, he must abandon years of safe underground life for the dangerous life of the road.
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Audiobook of the Year
- By connie on 05-13-12
By: Neil Gordon
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1 Dead in Attic
- After Katrina
- By: Chris Rose
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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1 Dead in Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national praise, Rose provides a rollercoaster ride of observation, commentary, emotion, tragedy, and even humor - in a way that only he could find in a devastated wasteland. They are stories of the dead and the living, stories of survivors and believers, stories of hope and despair.
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Still Makes Me Hurt
- By Gillian on 02-27-15
By: Chris Rose
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The Hard Crowd
- Essays 2000-2020
- By: Rachel Kushner
- Narrated by: Rachel Kushner
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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Rachel Kushner has established herself as “the most vital and interesting American novelist working today” (The Millions) and as a master of the essay form. In The Hard Crowd, she gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that addresses the most pressing political, artistic, and cultural issues of our times—and illuminates the themes and real-life experiences that inform her fiction.
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Adventures in peril.
- By J. Brinkman on 06-21-21
By: Rachel Kushner
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Midnight in Mexico
- A Reporter's Journey through a Country's Descent into Darkness
- By: Alfredo Corchado
- Narrated by: Timothy Andres Pabon
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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Noted Mexican American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink from reporting on government corruption, murders in Juarez, or the ruthless drug cartels of Mexico. One night, Corchado received a tip that he could be the next target of the Zetas, a violent paramilitary group - and that he had 24 hours to find out if the threat was true. Midnight in Mexico is the story of one man's quest to report the truth of his country - as he races to save his own life.
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Fascinating & suspenseful historical non-fiction!
- By Ruth Barrie on 06-30-19
By: Alfredo Corchado
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The Wild Shore
- The Three Californias Triptych, Book 1
- By: Kim Stanley Robinson
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
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North America, 2047. For the small Pacific Coast community of San Onofre, life in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear attack is a matter of survival, a day-to-day struggle to stay alive. But young Hank Fletcher dreams of the world that might have been, that might yet be - and dreams of playing a crucial role in America's rebirth.
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Needs 6 stars
- By Carl on 01-12-16
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The Good Hand
- A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood, and Transformation in an American Boomtown
- By: Michael Patrick F. Smith
- Narrated by: Michael Patrick F. Smith
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
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Like thousands of restless men left unmoored in the wake of the 2008 economic crash, Michael Patrick Smith arrived in the fracking boomtown of Williston, North Dakota, five years later homeless, unemployed, and desperate for a job. Renting a mattress on a dirty flophouse floor, he slept boot to beard with migrant men who came from all across America and as far away as Jamaica, Africa, and the Philippines. They ate and drank together, argued like crows, and searched for jobs they couldn't get back home. Smith's aim was to find the hardest work he could - to find out if he could do it.
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Best Memoir in a Decade!
- By Jennifer T Platt on 02-22-21
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Spirit Run
- A 6000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
- By: Noé Álvarez
- Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
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Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noe Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother. A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Álvarez struggled to fit in. At 19, he learned about a Native American/First Nations movement called the Peace and Dignity Journeys, epic marathons meant to renew cultural connections across North America. He dropped out of school and joined a group runners, all fleeing difficult beginnings. Telling their stories and his own, Álvarez writes about a four-month-long journey from Canada to Guatemala.
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Good book about a running adventure
- By Lynette on 06-23-22
By: Noé Álvarez
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The Best American Short Stories 2019
- By: Anthony Doerr, Heidi Pitlor
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff, Heidi Pitlor, Scott Shepherd, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
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#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
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a lovely blend of stories well read
- By Timothy P. Welch on 10-22-22
By: Anthony Doerr, and others
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Out of Time
- A Novel
- By: David Klass
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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A massive FBI manhunt is underway for an elusive and terrifyingly adept serial bomber. He's just struck his sixth target, Idaho's Boon Dam, killing a dozen innocent people. But the bomber, who the press has dubbed "Green Man", insists these drastic acts of violence - each one carefully selected to destroy a target that threatens the environment - are necessary to draw the world's attention to the climate-change emergency. The FBI has no real leads. Until young Agent Tom Smith approaches the task-force leader with an unexpected insight.
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If want a 10 hour lecture climate change, this is it
- By Anonymous User on 12-14-21
By: David Klass
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The Great Offshore Grounds
- A Novel
- By: Vanessa Veselka
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
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On the day of their estranged father’s wedding, half sisters Cheyenne and Livy set off to claim their inheritance. It’s been years since the two have seen each other. Cheyenne is newly back in Seattle, crashing with Livy after a failed marriage and a series of personal and professional dead ends. Livy works refinishing boats, her resentment against her freeloading sister growing as she tamps down dreams of fishing off the coast of Alaska. But the promise of a shot at financial security brings the two together to claim what’s theirs.
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Epic Family (blood and chosen) Saga
- By Kait on 09-19-20
By: Vanessa Veselka
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Walking to Listen
- 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time
- By: Andrew Forsthoefel
- Narrated by: Andrew Forsthoefel
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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At 23, Andrew Forsthoefel headed out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read "Walking to Listen". He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn't know how. So he decided to take a cross-country quest for guidance, one where everyone he met would be his guide. In the year that followed, he faced an Appalachian winter and a Mojave summer. He met beasts inside: fe