
Unified
How Our Unlikely Friendship Gives Us Hope for a Divided Country
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J D Jackson
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John McLain
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Tim Scott
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Trey Gowdy
About this listen
In a divided country desperate for unity, two sons of South Carolina show how different races, life experiences, and pathways can lead to a deep friendship - even in a state that was rocked to its core by the 2015 Charleston church shooting.
Tim Scott, an African-American US senator, and Trey Gowdy, a white US congressman, won’t allow racial lines to divide them. They work together, eat meals together, campaign together, and make decisions together. Yet in the fall of 2010 - as two brand-new members of the US House of Representatives - they did not even know each other. Their story as politicians and friends began the moment they met and is a model for others seeking true reconciliation.
Here, Senator Scott and Congressman Gowdy, through honesty and vulnerability, inspire others to evaluate their own stories, clean the slate, and extend a hand of friendship that can change your churches, communities, and the world.
Download the accompanying reference guide.©2018 Tim Scott and Trey Gowdy (P)2018 Oasis AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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- Kindle Customer
- 06-14-20
great read
This should be required reading for all kids high school and college. A book that presents solutions not just problems!
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- LarryCU
- 09-03-18
Civic lesson - Required reading
I bought several books to give. Sons, friends of a different race and a few northerns/yankees to show we have moved on since that war of northern aggression😉
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- JAC
- 06-12-20
Love the message!
A beautiful story about open hearts and the power of listening and respect. We need more of this in our country, our politicians, ourselves!
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- Pam
- 10-02-18
Excellent
I really enjoyed this refreshing outlook and should be required reading for all DC leaders, as well as their staff!!! It definitely made me look harder at my own life. Thank you Tim and Trey!
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- Wolfgang Schwartzenweintraub
- 09-29-18
How similar Thinking and Purpose are Shared
Well, my awareness of Trey Gowdy's presence on the planet has been enriched. I now have an awareness of his friend Tim Scott who deserves my attention as well. I believe the South will solve the problem of racial inequality long before the North decides it is a worthwhile thing to do. The impact of the changes that have occurred and the fact that reconstruction is continued to be an ongoing work of art further convinces me that Tim and Trey are the two that will bring the issues of this delima to the forefront as they have together done in this book. I have heard their rhetorical thoughts and statements before. Like them I am a follower of God's teachings. The difference here is the message they are sending to us is coming from both of them at the same time and in a framework of friendship wrapped around it. Thank You for that. I would like to carry on a correspondence with both of them. Would you furnish me with there e-mail addresses please. tell them my copy of the book is headed for the Philippines to pastor Raymond Rabe of the Fourth Baptist School in Hilongos Lyte. You see he and I are friends much like Tim and Trey. With due respect; Wolfgang M. Schwartzenweintraub 16719770123 ( Island of Guam) wolfmannn2018@gmail.com
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- Mark Mears
- 06-26-21
Definitely worth your time
This account of the friendship between Sen. Tim Scott and Rep. Trey Gowdy does provide hope for a Unified nation. Someday. Maybe.
Both are obviously the other’s biggest cheerleader. Both are modest and forthright in their narratives.
You will read/hear about personal experiences that have shaped their personalities and their characters. Both have faced and overcome adversity, Sen. Scott more so than Rep. Gowdy.
There are lessons here for all of us. Some of them difficult, some of them mere reminders of who can be when we disregard the hate some need to advance their political agendas.
Definitely worth your time.
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- J Currey
- 09-26-20
Everyone should hear this
If we had their attitudes in life everyone would get along. Everyone would understand we all don’t have to be the same. We can do this!
Thanks to the authors for creating this book!
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- Anonymous User
- 12-29-21
must hear!
was not what I thought it would be! this is a hope book. I in the human race. Not who is black, brown, yellow. red , or green. it is not about gender, creeds, tribes, or cultures. it is about being human, and being a better human.
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- Sarah V. Wildman
- 08-18-22
Grateful!
Thank you, Trey and Tim, for taking the time to chronicle your friendship and experiences, both together and as separate individuals. I'm inspired and received with thanks your admonitions to put aside the fear of treading unfamiliar ground and forging friendships with those who might not think and look like me. I have a wonderful circle of mostly left-leaning friends (I might be the only right-leaning friend most of them have) and find our conversations refreshing and surprising many times ("I had no idea you thought that!"). These conversations are almost always across the table with food in between. I talk about being "blessed" and they often roll their eyes. But we always find fun and commonality, and we all are better for it, I believe.
In the readers' voices, I can hear both Trey and Tim...but I would rather they had spoken their own words as I love those southern accents (I'm a Midwesterner)! Still, the readers did a very respectable job of giving them voice without trying to copy their vocal inflections. That would be so bad!
The stories they share are heartbreaking, inspiring, eye-opening, thought-provoking. Both men are storytellers in the best southern tradition. They share an almost intimate look into their friendship and for this, I am very grateful.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-13-20
Love this book
They discussed challenging racial issues facing our country and how they learned from each other and others. This book gives me hope for our country!
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