Read Bernie's Brooklyn: How Growing Up in the New Deal City Shaped Bernie Sanders' Politics

Bernie's Brooklyn: How Growing Up in the New Deal City Shaped Bernie Sanders' Politics

Theodore Hamm

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Description:Bernie Sanders’ tilt at the US presidency has come under fire from an establishment that derides his social democratic policies as alien to the American way. But, as Ted Hamm reveals in this engaging and concise history, the sort of socialism Bernie advocates was commonplace in the Brooklyn where he grew up in the 1940s and 50s.Policies like free college tuition, rent control, and infrastructure projects including extensive public housing, parks and swimming pools were part of the New Deal city run by a progressive Mayor, Fiorello La Guardia, and supported by FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt. While Arthur Miller, resident in Brooklyn Heights, was staging Death of a Salesman, a play with which Bernie’s dad closely identified, Woody Guthrie was penning his paeans to the American worker in Coney Island and Jackie Robinson was breaking the color bar on Ebbets Field in a Dodgers team yet to be relocated in California.Drawing deeply on interviews with his brother and friends, and delving skillfully into the history of the borough, Bernie’s Brooklyn shows how, far from being an anomaly in US politics, Sanders’ 2020 platform is rooted firmly in the progressivism of the New Deal.“A wonderful tour of a different political time that is directly shaping our own. Hamm's book is a beautiful, loving, and easy-to-read exploration of the texture of politics in Brooklyn while Sanders was a child, it brings politics and culture and context to life.” —Zephyr Teachout“A treasure trove for Sanders fans.” —Liza Featherstone, columnist for Jacobin and The NationWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Bernie's Brooklyn: How Growing Up in the New Deal City Shaped Bernie Sanders' Politics. To get started finding Bernie's Brooklyn: How Growing Up in the New Deal City Shaped Bernie Sanders' Politics, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 160

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: OR Books

Release: 2020

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Description: Bernie Sanders’ tilt at the US presidency has come under fire from an establishment that derides his social democratic policies as alien to the American way. But, as Ted Hamm reveals in this engaging and concise history, the sort of socialism Bernie advocates was commonplace in the Brooklyn where he grew up in the 1940s and 50s.Policies like free college tuition, rent control, and infrastructure projects including extensive public housing, parks and swimming pools were part of the New Deal city run by a progressive Mayor, Fiorello La Guardia, and supported by FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt. While Arthur Miller, resident in Brooklyn Heights, was staging Death of a Salesman, a play with which Bernie’s dad closely identified, Woody Guthrie was penning his paeans to the American worker in Coney Island and Jackie Robinson was breaking the color bar on Ebbets Field in a Dodgers team yet to be relocated in California.Drawing deeply on interviews with his brother and friends, and delving skillfully into the history of the borough, Bernie’s Brooklyn shows how, far from being an anomaly in US politics, Sanders’ 2020 platform is rooted firmly in the progressivism of the New Deal.“A wonderful tour of a different political time that is directly shaping our own. Hamm's book is a beautiful, loving, and easy-to-read exploration of the texture of politics in Brooklyn while Sanders was a child, it brings politics and culture and context to life.” —Zephyr Teachout“A treasure trove for Sanders fans.” —Liza Featherstone, columnist for Jacobin and The NationWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Bernie's Brooklyn: How Growing Up in the New Deal City Shaped Bernie Sanders' Politics. To get started finding Bernie's Brooklyn: How Growing Up in the New Deal City Shaped Bernie Sanders' Politics, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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