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71/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Ari Rabin-Havt
Publisher:
Liveright
Date:
April 26, 2022
As a close advisor and deputy campaign manager on Sandersâs most recent presidential campaign, the tireless Rabin-Havt spent more hours between 2017 and 2020 with the Vermont senator than anyone else. This is his account.
What The Reviewers Say
... engaging.
... offers insightful details of campaign rallies and 2020 primary debates and documents the drama and excitement of the Sanders campaign’s increasing success.
Rabin-Havt delivers an admirable portrait of his candidate, but of more interest to students of applied politics are the numerous episodes in which he explores the art of political calculus: how Sanders decided, for instance, to attack Pete Buttigieg among the field of candidates in the Iowa caucuses as 'the candidate of the wealthy elite,' along with the horse trading involved in Sanders’ 'Medicare for All' plan.
... breezy, colorful, and often insightful, but also evasive in blaming Sanders’s defeat on the Democratic Party establishment’s animus toward him without considering whether his left-wing politics were acceptable to most voters. Still, the portrait of Sanders as a crusty but caring man, passionately committed to principles and the interests of working-class people, vividly shows why he is one of America’s most influential politicians..
