WEVE GOT PEOPLE

We’ve Got People From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria OcasioCortez the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement is the first booklength treatment of the roots and rise of Alexandria OcasioCortez tracing the movement that propelled her back to the 1988 presidential campaign of Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition a year before she was born That campaign stunned the Democratic Party by coming within inches of winning the nomination One of the few white progressives to endorse the campaign early was Burlington Mayor Bernie Sanders OcasioCortez in 2016 would volunteer for his presidential campaign Veterans of the Sanders campaign then formed the organization that recruited OcasioCortez to run for Congress and backed her and her squad to the hilt At every step the movement was in conflict with the centrist wing of the party and the book jampacked with new revelations explores how each shaped each other and how that 30year war shapes the fight playing out today