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Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician and activist who is the senior United States senator from Vermont. Sanders is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history but has a close relationship with the Democratic Party, having caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career and sought the party's presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020, coming second in both campaigns. He is often seen as a leader of the U.S. progressive movement. Born into a working-class Jewish family and raised in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, Sanders attended Brooklyn College before graduating from the University of Chicago in 1964. While a student, he was a protest organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the civil rights movement. After settling in Vermont in 1968, he ran unsuccessful third-party political campaigns in the early to mid-1970s. He was elected mayor of Burlington in 1981 as an independent and was reelected three times. He won election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990, representing Vermont's at-large congressional district, later co-founding the Congressional Progressive Caucus. He was a U.S. representative for 16 years before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006, notably becoming the first non-Republican elected to Vermont's Class 1 seat since Whig Solomon Foot was elected in 1850. Sanders was reelected to the Senate in 2012 and 2018. He chaired the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee from 2013 to 2015 and the Senate Budget Committee from 2021 to 2023. In January 2023, he became chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and the senior senator and dean of the Vermont congressional delegation upon Leahy's retirement from the Senate. Sanders was a major candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020, receiving the second most votes in each. Despite initially low expectations, his 2016 campaign generated significant grassroots enthusiasm and funding from small-dollar donors, carrying him to victory against eventual nominee Hillary Clinton in 23 primaries and caucuses before he conceded in July. In 2020, his strong showing in early primaries and caucuses made him the front-runner in a historically large field of Democratic candidates. In April 2020, Sanders conceded the nomination to Joe Biden, who had won a series of decisive victories as the field narrowed. He supported both Clinton and Biden in their respective general election campaigns against Donald Trump. He has since emerged as a close ally of Biden. Sanders is credited with influencing a leftward shift in the Democratic Party after his 2016 presidential campaign. An advocate of progressive policies, he is known for his opposition to economic inequality and neoliberalism, and support for workers' self-management. On domestic policy, he supports labor rights, universal and single-payer healthcare, paid parental leave, tuition-free tertiary education, an ambitious Green New Deal to create jobs addressing climate change, and worker control of production through cooperatives, unions, and democratic public enterprises. On foreign policy, he supports reducing military spending, pursuing more diplomacy and international cooperation, and putting greater emphasis on labor rights and environmental concerns when negotiating international trade agreements. Sanders supports workplace democracy, and has praised elements of the Nordic model. Some have compared and contrasted his politics to left-wing populism and the New Deal policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Early life Bernard Sanders was born on September 8, 1941, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. His father, Elias Ben Yehuda Sanders (1904–1962), was born in Słopnice, a town in Austrian Galicia that was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is now in Poland. Elias Sanders was a Polish-Jewish immigrant who immigrated to the United States in 1921 and became a paint salesman, although his family was killed in the Holocaust. Bernie's mother, Dorothy Sanders (née Glassberg) (1912–1960), was born in New York City. He is the younger brother of Larry Sanders. Sanders says he became interested in politics at an early age due to his family background. In the 1940s, many of his relatives in German-occupied Poland were murdered in the Holocaust. Sanders lived in Midwood, Brooklyn. He attended elementary school at P.S. 197, where he won a borough championship on the basketball team. He attended Hebrew school in the afternoons, and celebrated his bar mitzvah in 1954. His older brother Larry said that during their childhood, the family never lacked for food or clothing, but major purchases, "like curtains or a rug", were not affordable. Sanders attended James Madison High School, where he was captain of the track team and took third place in the New York City indoor one-mile race. In high school, he lost his first election, finishing last of three candidates for the student body presidency with a campaign that focused on aiding Korean War orphans. Despite the loss, he became active in his school's fundraising activities for Korean orphans, including organizing a charity basketball game. Sanders attended high school with economist Walter Block. When he was 19, his mother died at age 47. His father died two years later in 1962 at age 57. Sanders studied at Brooklyn College for a year in 1959–1960 before transferring to the University of Chicago and graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1964. In later interviews, Sanders described himself as a mediocre college student because the classroom was "boring and irrelevant", and said he viewed community activism as more important to his education. Early career Political activism Sanders later described his time in Chicago as "the major period of intellectual ferment in my life." While there, he joined the Young People's Socialist League (the youth affiliate of the Socialist Party of America) and was active in the civil rights movement as a student for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Under his chairmanship, the university chapter of CORE merged with the university chapter of the SNCC. In January 1962, he went to a rally at the University of Chicago administration building to protest university president George Wells Beadle's segregated campus housing policy. At the protest, Sanders said, "We feel it is an intolerable situation when Negro and white students of the university cannot live together in university-owned apartments". He and 32 other students then entered the building and camped outside the president's office. After weeks of sit-ins, Beadle and the university formed a commission to investigate discrimination. After further protests, the University of Chicago ended racial segregation in private university ho.... Discover the Bernie Sanders popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Bernie Sanders books.
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Outsider in the White House
Senator Bernie Sanders & John NicholsThe political autobiography of the insurgent presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’s campaign for the presidency of the United States has galvanized people all over the country, pu...
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Liars
Glenn BeckGlenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, reveals the cold truth behind the ideology of progressivism and how the tenets of this dangerous belief system...
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No, You Shut Up
Symone D. Sanders“Symone’s honest and profound reflection on standing up and speaking out is sure to inspire young people across the country to become the change agents the world needs.” Cong...
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The Hill to Die On
Jake Sherman & Anna PalmerNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The inside story of Donald Trump’s first two years in Washington as viewed from Capitol Hill, a startling account that turns “Congress into a G...
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We Are Indivisible
Leah Greenberg & Ezra LevinThis national bestseller is not only the guiding “centerpiece of a robust new grassroots machinery” (Rolling Stone), it is the story of democracy under threat. It’s the story of a ...
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Bernie Sanders
Charles VoisinOriginaire de Brooklyn, Bernard Sanders obtient son diplôme de sciences politiques à l’Université de Chicago où il milite activement pour l’égalité raciale. Après un court séjour d...
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The ABCs of Socialism
Bhaskar Sunkara & Phil WrigglesworthJacobin magazine offfers an irreverent, illustrated introduction to socialism that answers the basic questions many want to knowbut are too afraid to ask. The remarkable run of sel...
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Doppelganger
Naomi KleinA finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle AwardNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | National Indie BestsellerA New York Times notable book of 2023 | Vulture’s #1 book of 2023One ...
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Black Privilege
Charlamagne Tha GodAn instant New York Times bestseller! Charlamagne Tha Godthe selfproclaimed “Prince of Pissing People Off,” cohost of Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, and “the most important voic...
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Every Other Monday
John KasichThis bestselling book by GOP presidential candidate John Kasich offers an honest, insightful, and revealing portrait of the man called by the New York Times, “the only plausible ch...
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How Soon is Now
Daniel Pinchbeck, Sting & Russell BrandWe are on the brink of an ecological megacrisis threatening the future of life on earth and our actions over the next few years may well determine the destiny of our descendants. B...
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Profiles in Corruption
Peter SchweizerNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Washington insiders operate by a proven credo: When a Peter Schweizer book drops, duck and brace for impact.For over a decade, the work of sixtime Ne...
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I Have Something to Tell You
Chasten ButtigiegINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNOW WITH A NEW PREFACE A moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of Pete Buttigieg about growing up gay in his small Midwest...
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A Generation of Sociopaths
Bruce Cannon GibneyIn his "remarkable" (Men's Journal) and "controversial" (Fortune) book written in a "wry, amusing style" (The Guardian) Bruce Cannon Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the ...
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Our Revolution
Bernie SandersThe New York Times bestseller!When Bernie Sanders began his race for the presidency, it was considered by the political establishment and the media to be a “fringe” campaign, somet...
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Cancel Culture
Alan DershowitzIn Cancel Culture, Alan DershowitzNew York Times bestselling author and one of America’s most respected legal scholarsmakes an argument for free speech, due process, and restraint ...
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Imperial Spain 1469-1716
J. H Elliott & NEIL PINCHESThe story of Spain's rise to greatness from its humble beginnings as one of the poorest and most marginal of European countries is a remarkable and dramatic one. With the marriage ...
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All Your Worth
Elizabeth WarrenThis personal finance guide from Dr. Phil’s financial guru, Elizabeth Warren, offers a new way of thinking about and managing your money that will allow you lifelong emotional peac...
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Where We Go from Here
Bernie SandersThe inspiring national bestseller from the U. S. Senator and leading Democratic candidate for presidentabout the fierce fight for democracy and social justice, and what we need to ...
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Hacks
Donna BrazileNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Explosive... A blistering tellall."Washington Post "People should sit up, take notes and change things."Ace Smith, Los Angeles Times "Brazile mo...
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Arguing with Socialists
Glenn BeckA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset arms you to the teeth with information necessary to debunk the socialist arguments that have onc...
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The Enemy Within
David Horowitz“The Enemy Within is a book for all patriots who understand that our country is in a fight for its life.”MARK LEVINAmerica on the BrinkA questionable election. The president o...
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The Theft of a Decade
Joseph C. SternbergA Wall Street Journal columnist delivers a brilliant narrative of the mugging of the millennial generation how the Baby Boomers have stolen the millennials' future in order to ensu...
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Untouchable
Elie HonigA NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB 'MUSTREAD'#1 ON COSMOPOLITAN'S 11 BEST NEW NONFICTION BOOKS TO ADD TO YOUR TBR PILE IN 2023 CNN senior legal analyst and nationally bestselling author Elie Hon...
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Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution
Bernie SandersIn the Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution, Independent congressman, presidential candidate and activist Bernie Sanders continues his fight against the imbalances in the n...
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Bernie Sanders
Jonathan Tasini & Bernie SandersEl famoso senador independiente de Estados Unidos, con una carrera de treinta y cinco años en el servicio público, hizo campaña para la presidencia de Estados Unidos, movilizando a...
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Give People Money
Annie LowreyA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceShortlisted for the 2018 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardA brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic incomea...
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The Chapo Guide to Revolution
Chapo Trap HouseInstant New York Times bestseller “Howard Zinn on acid or some bullsht like that.” Tim Heidecker The creators of the culthit podcast Chapo Trap House deliver a manifesto for everyo...
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Goliath
Matt Stoller“Every thinking American must read” (The Washington Book Review) this startling and “insightful” (The New York Times) look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism has t...
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The Socialist Manifesto
Bhaskar SunkaraA "razorsharp" introduction to this political and economic ideology makes a galvanizing argument for modern socialism (Naomi Klein) and explains how its core tenets could effect p...
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The January 6 Report
January 6th Committee, TheThe instant #1 New York Times bestsellerThe official report and findings of the bipartisan Congressional investigation into the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and Donald Trump’s ...
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Why the Right Went Wrong
E.J. DionneFrom the author of Why Americans Hate Politics, the New York Times bestselling and “notably fairminded” (The New York Times Book Review), story of the GOP’s fracturingfrom the 1964...
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The Ash Family
Molly DektarWhen a young woman leaves her family to join a secret offthegrid community headed by an enigmatic leader, she discovers that belonging comes with a deadly cost, in this “stunning d...
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True Gretch
Gretchen WhitmerFrom trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventionally honest, personal, and funny account of her remarkable life and career, ful...
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Why You Should Be a Socialist
Nathan J. RobinsonA primer on Democratic Socialism for those who are extremely skeptical of it. America is witnessing the rise of a new generation of socialist activists. More young people support ...
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Trump Revealed
Michael Kranish & Marc FisherA comprehensive biography of Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner in the presidential election campaign. Trump Revealed will be reported by a team of awardwinning Washington Po...
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The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith & Andrew SkinnerSmith's THE WEALTH OF NATIONS was the first comprehensive treatment of political economy. Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, the book's publication in 1776 c...
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Vulture Capitalism
Grace BlakeleyLonglisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction A Next Big Idea Book Club MustRead for March 2024In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto fr...
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Fight Like Hell
Kim KellyA 2022 New Yorker Best Book of the Year A 2022 Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A 2022 BuzzFeed Book You’ll Love A 2022 LitHub Favorite Book of the Year“Kelly unearths the ...