CHASING HOPE by Nicholas D. Kristof focuses on his life as a reporter and his almost forty years of working for The New York Times. Over that span, Kristof has informed the public about numerous crucial world events and still has important messages to share about the pursuit of truth and the need for compassion and action in support of others. Chapters in this lengthy text (roughly 480 pages) deal with difficult topics like the Tiananmen Square protests, the Yemeni civil war, and genocide in Sudan. Others profile lesser-known heroes, dissidents, and inspirational advocates. Commenting on Kristof's reporting efforts, his publisher says, "Some of the risks he took while doing so make for hair-raising reading." I concur and I think listening to the audiobook of CHASING HOPE would be fascinating – much like the tales of daring and courage which Admiral William McRaven shared in Sea Stories. Kristof weaves in interesting facts like, "My passports are huge, like paperback books, for I get extension after extension stapled in at overseas embassies. My last passport had 170 pages." He turns to domestic issues and includes a chapter on covering Donald Trump ("I had never known an American politician so uneducated about policy, so self-absorbed and so deceitful...") and another on campaigning to be the Governor of Oregon ("a chance to lift issues onto the agenda and generate political will for better policies"). Kristof describes how journalism has been transformed in the last half century and how public attitudes towards journalists have changed, too. Anyone who reads his pieces knows that his vision for journalistic storytelling has remained steadfast "not just as a technical craft but as one with an ethical mission: a better world." Truly an act of hope.