The CNN senior political analyst and USA Today columnist offers a
path to navigating the toxic division in our culture without
compromising our convictions and emotional well-being, based on her
experience as a journalist during the Trump era, interviews with
experts, and research on what leads people to actually change their
minds.
"Bracing, elevating, and essential . . . Kirsten Powers has given us a
great gift at an urgent hour." --Jon Meacham
For years, New York Times bestselling author Kirsten Powers has been
center stage for many of our nation's most searing political and
cultural battles as a columnist, TV analyst, and one-time participant in
the thunderdome of Twitter. On a good day, there will be civil
disagreement. On a bad day, it's all-out trench warfare--nothing but a
cycle of outrage and self-righteousness. More and more, Powers finds
herself wondering, along with countless Americans: How are we to cope
with this non-stop madness?
In Saving Grace, Powers writes with wit and insight about our
country's poisonous political discourse, chronicling the efforts she's
made to stay grounded and preserve her sanity in a post-truth era that
has driven many of us to the edge. She draws on lessons offered by faith
leaders, therapists, theologians, social scientists, and activists
working for change today. She dismantles the widespread misconception
that grace means being nice, letting people get away with harmful
behavior, or choosing neutrality in the name of peace. Grace, she
argues, is anything but an act of surrender; instead, it is a kinetic
and transformative force.
Saving Grace offers a template for a different kind of America, one
where we can engage with people who hold opposing views without
sacrificing our values or our passionate beliefs in the causes we care
about. It's a culture that embraces repentance and repair, a process
through which those who have caused harm can take responsibility and
work toward righting the wrongs in which they have participated. It's a
place where we're empowered to see the possibility in other people, even
people who are driving us nuts.
Provocative, original, and filled with deep wisdom, Saving Grace is an
essential read for anyone engaged in the struggle to live
compassionately in an era of relentless demonization and division.
