Francis Barry

Jul 24, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Francis Barry

I’m a sucker for “travel across America” books. John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charleyor William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highwayscome to mind. The kind of book where the author drives the nation’s backroads to find “real Americans” who are colorful and offer homegrown bromides, hard cider, and maybe directions to the world’s largest donut. With that in mind, I plowed into Francis S. Barry’sBack Roads and Better Angels, a doorstopper-sized trip from one coast to the other and back.

Jul 4, 2024 | nextbigideaclub.com | Francis Barry |Tom McGrath |Eric Weiner

Eric Weiner is a New York Times bestselling author and journalist. A former international correspondent for NPR, his work has appeared in The Atlantic, National Geographic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and the anthology Best American Travel Writing. Below, Eric shares five key insights from his new book, Ben & Me: In Search of a Founder’s Formula for a Long and Useful Life. Listen to the audio version—read by Eric himself—in the Next Big Idea App.

Jun 18, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Francis Barry

Democracy Dies in DarknessFrancis S. Barry is the author of “Back Roads and Better Angels: A Journey Into the Heart of American Democracy.”President Biden’s recent speech in Normandy, highlighting the choice the world faces between democracy and autocracy, underscored what has been clear since he kicked off his reelection campaign in January: He is running as a democrat as much as a Democrat.

Apr 29, 2024 | aei.org | Francis Barry |Era Dabla-Norris |li Liu |With Robert Doar

In his new book, Back Roads and Better Angels: A Journey into the Heart of American Democracy, Bloomberg’s Francis S. Barry brings together two of America’s unifying loves—road trips and Abraham Lincoln—to take readers on a thought-provoking journey into the heart of our democracy and the soul of our country.