America, a Redemption Story: Choosing Hope, Creating Unity

by Tim Scott

Overview

The American Dream isn’t a thing of the past, but a miracle of the present.

Now more than ever it’s easy to focus on the divisions that plague our nation. It may seem as if our best days are behind us, but bestselling author and senator Tim Scott believes we have yet to realize the fullness of our identity. We are in the midst of a story that’s still unfolding. And beautiful opportunities await.

In this powerful memoir, Scott recounts formative events of his life alongside the inspiring stories of other Americans who have risen above hardship and embodied the values that make our nation great. Together these personal and inspirational accounts call readers to embrace

• the mountaintops as well as the valleys on the journey to a more perfect union;
• a path marked by optimism, hope, and resolve; and
• a future characterized by endurance, unity, and strength.

Both a clear-eyed reckoning with our nation’s failures and an ode to its accomplishments, America, a Redemption Story issues a clarion call for all of us to rise courageously to the greatness within our reach.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781400236497
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	08/09/2022
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	151,644
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Tim Scott is a New York Times bestselling author, successful small businessman, and U.S. senator from South Carolina. Having grown up poor in a single-parent household, he has made it his mission to positively affect the lives of a billion people through a message of hope and opportunity. He is the first African American to be elected to both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate, and he currently serves on the Senate Committee on Financial Services; the Committee on Banking; the Committee on Small Business; the Committee on Aging; and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. He lives in South Carolina.

Table of Contents

Foreword Frances "Mama" Scott xiii

Introduction xxi

1 A Game of Inches 1

2 The Wrestler 11

3 Teet 19

4 Pivotal Moments 27

5 Tim Scott for President 37

6 Grit and Innovation 49

7 These Heroes Rise 59

8 Champion Our Differences! 75

9 Three Generations 85

10 Hail to the Chief 97

11 President Trump 109

12 Opportunity 119

13 Honor the Blue 133

14 January 6 149

15 This Little Light 163

16 The Black Experience 173

17 Blind Spots 185

18 America, a Redemption Story 193

Acknowledgments 201

Notes 203

About the Author 207

Editorial Reviews

2022-09-06
An aspirational pep rally of a book, courtesy of South Carolina’s junior senator.

Though Scott “grew up in poverty in a single-parent household,” he overcame numerous obstacles to make it to Congress—and, as he claims throughout, the U.S. is the best country on the planet. That’s about the long and short of this sort-of memoir, sort-of Trumpian manifesto, which has some curious bifurcations. Near the beginning, the author writes, “I don’t for one second believe the false narrative of a racist, divided America that has been spun by big media.” Later in the text, he notes, “as a conservative black man in public office, I experience racism on every level.” Mostly, it’s the liberal media that serve up that racism, since they expect Scott to decry this racist, divided country; never mind the crowds of people waving Confederate flags at Trump rallies or besieging the U.S. Capitol. To his credit, the author at least picked up on the dog whistle when, after the White supremacist rally in Charlottesville in 2017, Trump said there were good people on all sides. Scott stated publicly that by praising White supremacists, Trump had “compromised his moral authority to lead.” All was forgiven after Trump signed off on “opportunity zones” in inner cities and praised Scott’s mother and gave her a ride on Air Force One. In summary, America’s not racist; Trump’s a decent man who represents ordinary people and is “a man who believes he can fix things”; many of the rioters on Jan. 6 “came late and, for the most part, never realized how violent things had been”; and the “liberal elitists in the media” are the nation’s true villains. Scott checks all the requisite right-wing boxes, piling on pablum about national unity, can’t-we-all-get-along goodwill, and the privilege of voting—and never mind his party’s anti-minority voter-suppression efforts.

A snooze in which cheerleading, apologia, and all-too-familiar political rhetoric collide.

Kirkus Reviews