David Shipler recounts the arc of his career after college, including his service as an officer in the US Navy, early jobs at the New York Times,  assignments in Vietnam, Russia, and Israel, and how he came to author books.  Among the seven books he published are Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land (for which he won a Pulitzer Prize), Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams, and A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America.  David adds his thoughts on Russia and Ukraine as well as troubling aspects of democracy in the US.