Civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton will take on the age of President Trump in a book coming out before the 2020 election, the Associated Press reports.
Sharpton’s Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads will be published in late summer by Harlequin imprint Hanover Square Press.
The publisher calls the book a “profound examination of the American soul and a clarion call to action.”
“In Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads, Rev. Al Sharpton revisits the highlights of the Obama administration, the 2016 election, and Trump’s subsequent hold on the GOP, and draws on his decades-long experience with other key players in politics and activism,” Hanover Square press says. “He also amplifies the new voices and movements that have emerged in response to the Trump presidency.”
In a statement, Sharpton said he aims to “get people to understand the gravity of where we are as a nation; whether we will choose to continue the path of progress towards human rights and to value all people or whether we will choose the path of returning to a value system of where might is right and wealth is the measure of human value."
Sharpton is the author of three previous books: The Rejected Stone: Al Sharpton and the Path to American Leadership, Al on America, and Go and Tell Pharaoh.
Rise Up is slated for publication on Sept. 15.
Michael Schaub is an Austin, Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
