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That was lets say emanating out of washington andernen circles in new york. i found people to be a lot more reasonable, less strident, and more decent than paradoxically the people they elect. >> so given all this political and social chaos and threats of anarchy, was there, were there a combination of characters that you ran into on this road trip that gave you any sense that the center will hold? >> oh, it definitely did. i think that if perhaps a lot of ordinary americans were had a greater v...

Uniting or disuniting the country and i wanted to talk to ordinary americans about that, and interview the 83 of them along the way. and got lots of answers ranging from a very simple one, one woman in texas told me its hope that unites us and there were probably as many answers to that question as there were people i interviewed. >> uh-huh. philip, you said in your book that the america of 2010 is wa not the america of 1996. ive been living in it the whole time but in some ways i did rec not re...

Believe this country is headed in the wrong direction. a new book titled "the longest road" explores that in fascinating detail and asks a critical question. what keeps this united states of america together? joining me now, philip caput toe, are author of the book. talk about what you did covering 16,000 plus miles. what did you say it was 16241. >> 16,241 thats right. >> you went from florida to alaska. what was the impulse that drove you into making this road trip? was it a sense of adventure...