Outsider in the White House

In this book, Senator Bernie Sanders explains where he comes from. He describes in detail how, after cutting his teeth in the Civil Rights movement, Sanders helped build an extraordinary grassroots political movement in Vermont, making it possible for him to become the first independent elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in forty years and now the longest-serving independent in U.S. political history. An extensive afterword by The Nation's National Affairs correspondent John Nichols continues the story with Sanders's entrance into the Senate, the drama of the 2016 Democratic Primary, his ongoing resistance to Trump, and the thrilling launch of his 2020 bid for the White House. A new foreword by Nina Turner, former president of Our Revolution and co-chair of the Sanders for President campaign, provides a rare glimpse of Bernie as a person. Outsider in the White House tells the story of a passionate and principled political life.

About the author

Bernie Sanders was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 after serving 16 years in the House of Representatives. He is the longest serving independent member of Congress in American history. Early in his career, Sanders was director of the American People's Historical Society. Elected Mayor of Burlington by 10 votes in 1981, he served four terms. Before his 1990 election as Vermont's at-large member in Congress, Sanders lectured at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and at Hamilton College in upstate New York.John Nichols is the Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine, a contributing writer for the Progressive and In These Times, and the associate editor of Madison, Wisconsin's Capital Times. He's the author of several books, including The Death and Life of American Journalism, The Genius of Impeachment and The "S" Word.Huck Gutman, a long-time political collaborator of Sanders, is Professor of English at the University of Vermont.

Summary

Bernie Sanders's Political Autobiography

Product details

• Authors: Bernie Sanders, Sanders Bernie
• Assisted by: John Nichols (Afterword)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781788737692
• ISBN: 978-1-78873-769-2
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Parties, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, Memoirs, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Political structure & processes, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Central / national / federal government, Political structure and processes, Political parties and party platforms, Central government