The Fighting Soul

On the Road with Bernie Sanders

The Fighting Soul
Ari Rabin-Havt
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Hardback
h236 x 160mm - 352pg
24 May 2022 US
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9781631498794
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Bernie Sanders is one of the most influential figures of our time, a politician who inspires fervent love and, even among his enemies, a measure of grudging respect-yet we know comparatively little about this famously private left-wing firebrand. Now, Ari Rabin-Havt, a trusted Sanders aide, is able to take us where no press features or televised interviews have been able to go. The Fighting Soul is a behind-the-scenes chronicle of Sanders' s meteoric 2020 campaign for president-from the first campaign meeting in Rabin-Havt' s living room to Sanders' s heart attack and the end of the campaign as the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world-that deepens into an unforgettable portrait of Sanders: the history that drives his deep ideological commitments to the working class, his views of his young supporters, his sense of humor, which few outside his immediate circle ever witness, and the role his wife, Jane, plays in his success. In the tradition of What It Takes and other exuberant works of American political writing, The Fighting Soul shows the making of the rare politician motivated by principle, not power.
Rabin-Havt delivers an admirable portrait of his candidate. . . Among the better campaign confessionals and just the thing for presidential-politics wonks. -- "Kirkus Reviews" Rabin-Havt describes, sometimes in humorous detail, the determined, principled persona that Sanders consistently embodied. . . . Offers insightful details of campaign rallies and 2020 primary debates and documents the drama and excitement of the Sanders campaign' s increasing success. . . . A thoughtful and comprehensive account of the Sanders 2020 campaign and an authoritative description of the candidate' s personality. --Jill Ortner "Library Journal" The maverick socialist senator from Vermont flouts the norms of presidential politics in this rollicking campaign memoir . . . Rabin-Havt' s account of the Democratic primary race is breezy, colorful, and often insightful . . . 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. -- "Publishers Weekly"
Ari Rabin-Havt served as deputy campaign manager on Senator Bernie Sanders' s 2020 presidential campaign and was a Sanders aide from 2017 to 2021. His writing has appeared in the New Republic and the Washington Post, among other publications, and he lives in Washington, DC.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781631498794
Published: 24 May 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Height: 236mm
Width: 160mm
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 561g
Pages: 352

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