From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Devil\'s Bargain comes the revelatory inside story of the uprising within the Democratic Party, of the economic populists led by Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Whether the Democrats can bridge their divisions and home in on a vision that unites the party, and perhaps even the country, in the face of the most violently deranged political landscape since the.
But the winds behind economic populism still howl at gale force.
That same tide that would sweep Trump into office was blunted on the left, as the Democratic party found itself riven by culture war issues between its centrists and its progressives.
At its heart, The Rebels tells the riveting human story of the rise and fight of Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from the financial crisis on, as outrage over the unfairness of the American system formed a flood tide of political revolution.
With the 2008 crisis, those forces finally erupted into plain sight, turning this book\'s protagonists into national icons.
But as income inequality ballooned, widening the gulf between the wealthy elite and everyone else, pressures began to build.
For one thing, they didn\'t have the money.
There were always some Democratic politicians representing the old labor base who resisted the new dispensation, but these figures never made it very far on a national level.
Yes, there were howls of pain, but they were written off by most of the elites as the moaning of sore losers mired in the past.
For many years, as Green recounts, the Democrats made their bed with Wall Street and big tech, relying on corporate money for electioneering and embracing the worldview that technological and financial innovation and globalization were a powerful net good, a rising tide lifting all boats.
Based on remarkable inside sourcing and razor-sharp analysis, The Rebels uses the grand narrative of a political party undergoing tumult and transformation to tell an even larger story about the fate of America.
In The Rebels, he gives an epic account of the long Struggle that has played out in parallel on the left, told through an intimate reckoning with the careers of the three political figures who have led the charge most prominently.
In his classic book Devil\'s Bargain, Joshua Green chronicled how the forces of economic populism on the right, led by the likes of Steve Bannon, turned Donald Trump into their flawed but powerful vessel.
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Devil\'s Bargain comes the revelatory inside story of the uprising within the Democratic Party, of the economic populists led by Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
