''Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In'' is a book by
U.S. Senator
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from
Vermont
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Bernie Sanders
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, published by
Thomas Dunne Books
Thomas Dunne Books was an imprint of St. Martin's Press, which is a division of Macmillan Publishers. From 1986 until April 2020, it published popular trade fiction and nonfiction.
History
The imprint signed David Irving, a scholar, for a Joseph ...
in November 2016.
It was released on November 15, 2016, a week after the election of
Donald Trump
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Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...
. The book was written in the context of
Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign and aimed to explain some of its rationale.
Contents
In the book, Sanders sets out his position on climate change, free college tuition, income inequality, closing the
gender wage gap
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and defeating
Donald Trump
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Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...
while campaigning for
Hillary Clinton
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during the last three months leading to the
2016 presidential election.
Sanders discusses how his
presidential campaign
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was considered by the political establishment and the media to be a "fringe" campaign and something not to be taken seriously.
He discusses his initial struggle as being an "Independent senator from a small state with little name recognition".
Reception
Upon its release, it was on ''
The New York Times Best Seller List
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'' at number 3.
John R. Coyne Jr. gave the memoir a positive review for ''
The Washington Times
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'' saying that "For starters, it tells us who this man who energized so many young people really is—an enthusiastic young socialist trapped in an old curmudgeon's body, his ideas basically just as fresh to him today as when he left his native Brooklyn".
David Weigel of ''
The Denver Post
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'' said that the memoir was "like a sitcom character who gets beaned on the head and hallucinates an angel—or a talking dog, or a 75-year-old senator from Vermont—spinning lessons about what really matters in life".
Sanders and
Mark Ruffalo
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were nominated for the
Grammy Award
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for
Best Spoken Word Album
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.
See also
* ''
Stronger Together'', Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign book
* ''
Crippled America
''Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again'' is a non-fiction book by businessman (and later 45th president of the United States) Donald Trump, first published in hardcover by Simon & Schuster in 2015. A revised edition was subseque ...
'', Donald Trump's 2016 campaign book published in 2015
*
Our Revolution
Our Revolution (sometimes known by its initials OR) is an American progressive political action organization spun out of Senator Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign to continue its work. The organization's mission is to educate vote ...
, a PAC set up to support Sanders's policies and campaign for progressive candidates
References
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2016 non-fiction books
American political books
Books about the 2016 United States presidential election
Books by Bernie Sanders
English-language books
Thomas Dunne Books books
St. Martin's Press books