Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In

by Bernie Sanders

Overview

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When Bernie Sanders began his race for the presidency, it was considered by the political establishment and the media to be a “fringe” campaign, something not to be taken seriously. After all, he was just an Independent senator from a small state with little name recognition. His campaign had no money, no political organization, and it was taking on the entire Democratic Party establishment.

By the time Sanders’s campaign came to a close, however, it was clear that the pundits had gotten it wrong. Bernie had run one of the most consequential campaigns in the modern history of the country. He had received more than 13 million votes in primaries and caucuses throughout the country, won twenty-two states, and more than 1.4 million people had attended his public meetings. Most important, he showed that the American people were prepared to take on the greed and irresponsibility of corporate America and the 1 percent.

In Our Revolution, Sanders shares his personal experiences from the campaign trail, recounting the details of his historic primary fight and the people who made it possible. And for the millions looking to continue the political revolution, he outlines a progressive economic, environmental, racial, and social justice agenda that will create jobs, raise wages, protect the environment, and provide health care for all—and ultimately transform our country and our world for the better. For him, the political revolution has just started. The campaign may be over, but the struggle goes on.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250145000
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/29/2017
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

BERNIE SANDERS was a Democratic candidate for President of the United States. He is serving his third term in the U.S. Senate. Sanders previously served as mayor of Vermont’s largest city for eight years before defeating an incumbent Republican to be the sole congressperson for the state in the U.S. House of Representatives. He lives in Burlington, Vermont with his wife Jane and has four children and seven grandchildren.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Trade Paperback ix

Introduction 1

Part 1 Running for President

1 How Do We Turn Out the Way We Do? 7

2 My Political Life in Vermont 26

3 Thinking About Running 48

4 How Do You Run a Presidential Campaign? 86

5 The Campaign Begins 115

6 On the Campaign Trail 129

Part 2 An Agenda for a New America: How We Transform Our Country

1 Defeating Oligarchy 185

2 The Decline of the American Middle Class 206

3 Ending a Rigged Economy 218

4 Health Care for All 318

5 Making Higher Education Affordable 339

6 Combating Climate Change 355

7 Real Criminal Justice Reform 375

8 Immigration Reform Now 390

9 Protecting Our Most Vulnerable 404

10 Corporate Media and the Threat to Our Democracy 420

Conclusion 445

Acknowledgments 449

Editorial Reviews

2018 GRAMMY® Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album

"[Bernie] Sanders delivers charming humor, along with humble truths about losing elections and what he's learned from the campaign trail. Actor and activist Mark Ruffalo earnestly presents details of Sanders's work and ideas for a new America. Both Sanders and Ruffalo sound like they're directly addressing listeners, and hearing actual recordings of Sanders's speeches adds a further dimension to this essential work." -AudioFile Magazine

"Senator Sanders's gravelly voice and dramatic presentation are surely familiar to listeners. He reads with the same sincerity and earnestness he brought to audiences throughout his extraordinary primary campaign for president of the United States. A seasoned orator, he's particularly good at changing speed and intonation to emphasize the points he wants you to understand and absorb." — Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

2016-11-18
A dark horse speaks, advancing, after the fact, "an agenda for a new America."Leave it to Sanders to be contrary: most politicos, Trump included, write their campaign books while still campaigning. We can only imagine the author believes that his efforts will be ongoing and continual; in that interest, this book capably captures the main points of his message: Washington is corrupt, money needs to be taken out of politics, and the working class needs a fair shake and, yes, a new deal. Sanders begins on a note that could only have come after the race, of course: namely, that nearly 1.5 million people attended his rallies, and his campaign "attracted the energetic support of hundreds of thousands of volunteers in every state in the country." Here, the author, writing very much as he speaks ("Fortunately, we won that battle," he says of a Republican effort to cut aid to disabled veterans, "but it sickens me that we even had to wage the fight"), takes a long look at some of the planks that he and his movement pressed onto the Democratic Party platform in the 2016 election, including immigration reform, the $15-per-hour federal minimum wage, and the breakup of banks too big to fail. In the place of any regrets comes plenty of fire and a little ire, as when he impatiently recalls what he considers to be Hillary Clinton's mischaracterization of his position on guns. "This was an unfair attack," he writes, "but one that I didn't handle well." He adds, "to suggest, as Clinton did, that I was somehow sympathetic to the gun lobby was absurd." Most of the author's scorn is reserved, though, for those who stand in the way of his common-sense if sometimes-technical recommendations on such matters as capital gains taxation, Medicare expansion, and infrastructure spending.There's not much what-if here and certainly no indecision. Instead, as if rallying the troops, Sanders writes confidently of a program that's sure to be revisited in 2020.

Kirkus Reviews