Books like The essential Bernie Sanders and his vision for America by Jonathan Tasini

Bernie Sanders recounts his 2016 presidential campaign, detailing the unexpected rise of a fringe challenger, the grassroots momentum he built, and a progressive vision for economic, environmental, racial, and social justice.

As Bernie Sanders continues to cement his reputation as hero to the progressive left with his run for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016, this expanded and updated edition of his 1997 political autobiography continues his remarkable story as he fights to bring radical social change to America. The revised edition will include a new introduction from Sanders explaining what led to his run for the presidency and a substantial afterword written by John Nichols, the Washington Correspondent of The Nation, bringing Sanders's story forward from the late 1990s to the present.

Bernie Sanders was the first Independent elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in forty years, and the only Independent to serve four consecutive terms. In this autobiography, he discusses his 1996 election campaign in Vermont, his chairmanship of the House Progressive Caucus, and his discussions with President Clinton, Democrats, and Republicans on issues such as minimum wage, the Gulf War, NAFTA, health care, welfare reform, military spending, and the limitations of the two party system.

First-term Texas Senator and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is already a political lightning rod. Since his election to the Senate in 2012 he has refused to go along with the established way of doing business in Washington. As a result, he has become a voice for millions of Americans frustrated with governmental corruption and gridlock. Telling the truth is a radical act in our nation's capital -- a city dominated by empty promises, meaningless 'show votes,' and a self-protection racket designed to get politicians re-elected rather than heeding the demands of the American people. Cruz now tells his story as a Cuban immigrant's son who made it to the Ivy League, to the Supreme Court bar, and eventually the U.S. Senate. It's a deeply personal journey that begins with Cruz's father experiencing brutality in a Cuban prison and ends with Cruz's discovery that Washington has neither the courage nor the desire to preserve the freedom and opportunities that gave hope to his father, and millions like him. Pulling back the curtain on the backroom deals between Republicans, Democrats, and the lobbyists who keep them in office instead of keeping them accountable to their constituents, the book offers an inside look at what has gone wrong in our nation's capital. Cruz argues that the only way to bring about real change is to revitalize the Constitutional principles that made our country great.

A comic biography that follows Sanders from Brooklyn poverty to his rise as a socialist independent in Vermont and eventual U.S. Senate career.

The Democratic presidential candidate, popular senator, and respected economist traces the first year of the Trump administration and what Sanders and his followers are doing to reinforce the progressive movement.