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Same Hands, Same Ground

Finding Common Ground in a Divided America

A personal search for the values that still connect working people across a divided country.

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Inside the book

Part family history and part civic reflection, this book begins with the people whose hands built, farmed, served, and sacrificed—and asks what their example can teach us now.

James moves from his father’s service as a heavy gunner in the Battle of the Bulge to the dignity of work and the danger of political spectacle, making a case for truth, memory, and common ground.

He fought fascism with bullets; I fight with words.

Questions it asks

Read. Question. Look again.

  1. 01What do working people still share?
  2. 02What does history ask of us now?
  3. 03Can dignity outlast division?

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