We've Got People

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