U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy has a new book coming later this year.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish the Connecticut Democrat’s Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America this spring, the press announced in a news release. In the book, the press says, Murphy “assesses the destructive ideas that have seized the American spirit—and shows how the hidden alignments in our politics can free us from their hold.”
Murphy, an attorney, first entered politics at age 25, winning election to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1998. He served in that role for four years before being elected to the state senate in 2002.
He won election to the U.S. House in 2006 and then the U.S. Senate in 2012. As a senator, he has been an outspoken advocate for gun safety laws, economic populism, and reform of mental health care. He’s the author of a previous book, The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy, which a critic for Kirkus called “a fair-minded view of a topic that’s as divisive as any in the current political discourse.”
Farrar, Straus and Giroux says that Crisis of the Common Good “offers a new politics of the common good that is both deeply rooted in our past and a radical challenge to the status quo.”
Murphy, often seen as a possible presidential candidate in 2028, said in a statement, “If America is to worship anything, it should be the common good: a shared prosperity in which we care as deeply about the health of our communities and neighbors as we do about ourselves. This book is about how we lost that ethic, how Trump exploited its absence to tear us apart, and how we rebuild a society that can never be so easily broken again.”
Crisis of the Common Good is slated for publication on May 26.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
