"CORY BOOKER won a U.S. Senate seat in 2013, becoming the first black Senator from New Jersey and only the 21st person in American history to go straight from Mayor to Senator. But that was only the latest leg in his remarkable American journey. Raised in Harrington Park, NJ, by parents who were executives at IBM, he went on to Stanford, where he played football while earning two degrees; he won a Rhodes Scholarship; and he received his law degree from Yale. Instead of a road of affluence, he chose a path of service moving to the troubled city of Newark and becoming City Councilor, then Mayor. A compelling speaker and extremely social media savvy, he is a voice for finding compromise by way of strategic thinking and empathy. This book takes readers on a journey with Booker, through his experiences and into the realm of specific policy ideas."
