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An Effort To Understand: Hearing One Another (and Ourselves) in a Nation Cracked in Half

English

By (author): David Murray

An insightful book packed with wonderful writing, practical advice, and hope for a better, kinder future. Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life

Youre ready to give up. Throw up your hands and walk out the door. You don't know what else to sayto some dear family and close friends, let alone the crazy strangers that seem to populate half the country.

Congratulations: You're ready to read An Effort to Understand.

But dont worry. This is not a book about civility.

Instead, David Murray (blogger, speechwriter, rhetoric authority, and professional curmudgeon) is urging readers to join him in a near-spiritual movement, one that pushes us to consider communication as more than a means of persuading others to our way of thinking, but as a way of thinking all its own.

With his signature blend of wit, warmth, and four-letter words, Murrays essays tackle subjects from the specter of cancel culture and the responsibilities of citizenship to the art of dealing with annoying neighbors and the challenges of talking to kids about injustice. His words show that the personal and political gulfs between us are small compared to our common desire to connect.

It may be a last-ditch effort, but Americans have a chance at trust, peace, and solidarity if we make an effort to speak more honestly and listen to understand.

Because when it comes to communication, were all the bad guys. Thankfully, we have a chance to be the good guys too.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 326g
  • Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Mar 2021
  • Publisher: Disruption Books
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781633310483

About David Murray

David Murray heads the global Professional Speechwriters Association and comments daily on communication issues on his popular blog Writing Boots. He is an award-winning journalist and is editor and publisher of Vital Speeches of the Day one of the world's longest continuously published magazines. He is the author of Raised By Mad Men a memoir about his advertising parents and co-author of the New York Times bestseller Tell My Sons: A Father's Last Letters. The son of two writers Murray grew up in Hudson Ohio and studied English at Kent State University before moving to Chicago to make his own writing life. He lives in Chicago with his wife Cristie Bosch and daughter Scout Murray.

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