Beginning (Preface beginning with the 4th sentence)
... in 2013, I spent a couple of hours chatting with Bernie Sanders for an interview ... it was a pleasure ― unfortunately, too rare an experience ― to be with a member of Congress who actually had an informed, complex understanding of the issues facing the people.
Meet the essential Bernie Sanders, an authentic and uncompromising champion of the people. Bernie was an Independent United States with a thirty-five-year career in public service, first as Burlington, Vermont’s mayor, then as Vermont’s sole representative to Congress, and then as a United States senator. He was campaigning to become president of the United States when this book was published a decade ago. His goal was to build a movement to take back our country from the rich and powerful, and return it to its rightful owners ― the American people. (I also noticed that 75% of the people who commented on Amazon gave this book a 5-star rating.)
Wikipedia: "Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician and activist serving as the senior United States senator from Vermont, a seat he has held since 2007. He is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history, but maintains 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. Sanders has been viewed as one of the main leaders of the modern American progressive movement."
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