Unified: How Our Unlikely Friendship Gives Us Hope For a Divided Country

***New York Times* Bestseller**  
  
In a divided country desperate for unity, two sons of South Carolina show how different races, life experiences, and pathways can lead to a deep friendship-even in a state that was rocked to its core by the 2015 Charleston church shooting.  
  
Tim Scott, an African-American US senator, and Trey Gowdy, a white US congressman, won't allow racial lines to divide them. They work together, eat meals together, campaign together, and make decisions together. Yet in the fall of 2010-as two brand-new members of the US House of Representatives-they did not even know each other. Their story as politicians and friends began the moment they met and is a model for others seeking true reconciliation.  
  
In *Unified,* Senator Scott and Congressman Gowdy, through honesty and vulnerability, inspire others to evaluate their own stories, clean the slate, and extend a hand of friendship that can change your churches, communities, and the world.Read less