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HarperOne To Publish AMERICAN PORTRAIT: The Story Of Us, Told By Us
PBS Series Companion Book Reveals What It Really Means to Be an American Today SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- HarperOne announced today it will
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[{"type":"text","content":"PBS Series Companion Book Reveals What It Really Means to Be an American Today\n\n\nSAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- HarperOne announced today it will publish AMERICAN PORTRAIT: The Story of Us, Told by Us on June 15, 2021, part of the PBS documentary series and user-generated-content website. The book reflects a year in the life of everyday people across America in words and images gathered over the course of an extraordinary and historic time.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nHarperOne to Publish AMERICAN PORTRAIT. PBS Series Companion Book Reveals What It Really Means to Be an American TodayAMERICAN PORTRAIT offers an authentic, complex, and fascinating portrait of the people who call America home, chronicling themes of family, work, fun, faith, community, and more. The television series \"PBS American Portrait\" was produced by RadicalMedia in 2020 as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of PBS and its documentaries were broadcast in early 2021. The first-of-its-kind project captured the lives of people from every state, age, and background and with a series of prompts asked them to reflect on the country in their own words on the special website created for the project. The unprecedented effort brought together stories from 14,000 people from all walks of life as told in their own words. \nJudith Curr, President and Publisher of HarperOne Group said: \"This project grew in significance as it unfolded, since it was planned before anyone knew that 2020 would be so historic. These stories are moving and encouraging in that they reveal that we are much more alike than what separates us. We need this message now more than ever.\"\nBill Margol, Executive in Charge of American Portrait for PBS said: \"American Portrait captured 2020 in a way we could have never expected, giving so many people a way and a voice to express themselves and their feelings at an unprecedented moment in history. And so, PBS couldn't be happier to have these voices and this project collected in this beautiful book, in a way, frozen in time as a record of what we've all been through – the good, the bad, and everything in between.\"\nJon Kamen, CEO, RadicalMedia said: \"For us, this has been the realization of a dream project at an important time in the American story, and we're all incredibly proud to have it memorialized in this beautiful book, t...