Bernie (Graphic Non Fiction) - Softcover

Ted Rall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1609806980 ISBN 13: 9781609806989

Publisher: Seven Stories Press, 2020

Synopsis

Bernie Sanders puzzles the establishment. A self-identified socialist, long affiliated with neither the Democratic no Republican parties, from the tiny state of Vermont, Sanders has been relentlessly marginalized and ridiculed by the national political power brokers and the media that supports them.

And yet here he is, barely a month into his campaign against the inevitable Hillary Rodham Clinton, and he is already posting a credible threat to her in Iowa and New Hampshire, the two first, very important, primary contests. Not to mention he s doing it on a shoestring budget.

Who is Bernie Sanders? What accounts for his seemingly overnight rise from marginal figure to national player?

The Sanders story is about the credibility that, ironically, derives from years of marginalization. As progressives and liberals who once formed the base of the Democratic Party look for an alternative to Clinton s corporate-friendly, war-mongering policies, Sanders is perfectly positioned to step into the vacuum.

Ted Rall s BERNIE explores the personal and political development of a man who threatens to shake up the 2016 presidential campaign, redefine the left wing of the Democratic Party, and, win or lose, set a new benchmark for a revived progressivism within a party that has rejected it for half a century.

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About the Author

Twice the winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Ted Rall is a political cartoonist, opinion columnist, graphic novelist and occasional war correspondent whose work has appeared in hundreds of publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Village Voice and the Los Angeles Times. He is the illustrator of the full-length comic in Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps (Seven Stories Press, 2012), written by Greg Palast, and the author and illustrator of the graphic biography, Snowden (Seven Stories Press, 2015, also available).

Edition details

• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1609806980
• ISBN 13: 9781609806989
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192