The Book You Need to Read to Understand Bernie Sanders and His Populist Crusade

[ProudToBeLiberal]

Every time I write about a book about Bernie Sanders, somebody sends me a better one. If this keeps up, by the time his campaign is over I should be reading the best book ever written and be completely out of touch with reality. The latest is The Bern Identity by Will Bunch, and it's the most substantive, best researched and most coherent book of the bunch so far.

Bunch admires Bernie for learning the lessons of the 1960s, and for the most part, never selling out. Bunch finds this remarkable, almost unique. And, of course, it is that among U.S. senators, and among the gang of misfits occupying the two stages at the freak shows we call presidential primary debates. But there are many thousands of people who woke up during the 1960s and never went to sleep. Many of them have worked for peace and justice ever since with hardly a burnout. One could pick any number of them and stack their accomplishments up quite impressively against those of Bernie Sanders.

A lot more at http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/book-you-need-read-understand-bernie-sanders-and-his-populist-crusade

[passiveporcupine]

1. In case anyone is interested, this link is not a pro-bernie link

just saying