We've Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement - Ryan Grim

The first book-length treatment of the roots and rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Veterans of the Sanders campaign then formed the organization that recruited Ocasio-Cortez to run for Congress, and backed her and her squad to the hilt. n nWe've Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a n Movement is the first book-length treatment of the roots and rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, tracing the n movement that propelled her back to the 1988 presidential campaign of Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow n Coalition -- a year before she was born. That campaign stunned the Democratic Party by coming within inches n of winning the nomination. One of the few white progressives to endorse the campaign early was Burlington n Mayor Bernie Sanders; Ocasio-Cortez, in 2016, would volunteer for his presidential campaign. Veterans of the n Sanders campaign then formed the organization that recruited Ocasio-Cortez to run for Congress, and backed n her and her squad to the hilt. At every step, the movement was in conflict with the centrist wing of the party, n and the book, jam-packed with new revelations, explores how each shaped each other, and how that 30-year n war shapes the fight playing out today.n