(Ebook) The Best Strangers In The World by Ari Shapiro ISBN 9780063221369, 0063221365, B0B6KNPH58

(Ebook) The Best Strangers In The World by Ari Shapiro ISBN 9780063221369, 0063221365, B0B6KNPH58

From the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered, a stirring memoir-in-essays that is also a love letter to journalism“The Best Strangers in the World is a witty, poignant book that captures Ari Shapiro’s love for the unusual, his pursuit of the unexpected, and his delight at connection against the odds."  -  Ronan Farrow, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative JournalistIn his first book, broadcaster Ari Shapiro takes us around the globe to reveal the stories behind narratives that are sometimes heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking, but always poignant. He details his time travelling on Air Force One with President Obama, following the path of Syrian refugees fleeing war, or learning from those fighting for social justice both at home and abroad. As the self-reinforcing bubbles we live in become more impenetrable, Ari Shapiro keeps seeking ways to help people listen to one another, to find connection and commonality with those who may seem different, to remind us that, before religion, nationality, or politics, we are all human. "...Ari Shapiro is both revelatory and comforting. Revelatory in how he coaxes out and shapes a story, comforting that he is actually doing so. He is a beacon of idiosyncratic frankness and curiosity in an increasingly banal and complicit journalistic world. Here, though, it is he who is the story, and his scoop is letting us meet his true self: as good and kind and effortlessly brilliant a man as you could hope to meet.”  -  Alan Cumming, author of Not My Father’s SonThe Best Strangers In The World is a testament to one journalist's passion for Considering All Things - and sharing what he finds with the rest of us.