The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781839764264)

HOW THE FIRST MAJOR LEFTWING GENERATION SINCE THE SIXTIES HAS SHAPED ELECTORAL POLITICS

The mushrooming rolls of the Democratic Socialists of America, Marxist explainers in Teen Vogue, and the outsized impact of the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, all herald a new, youth-inflected radical politics.

The Rise of a New Left gets behind the headlines about AOC and her cohort of elected officials to tell the stories of the young organizers who created the Squad and the new social movements that have roiled US politics, from the DSA to the Sunrise Movement to Justice Democrats. Ranging across the country to describe grassroots organizing in places like rural Pennsylvania, upstate New York, Kentucky, Florida, and California, this book examines the panoply of strategies and struggles of activists working in--and trying to transform--electoral politics and the climate justice, racial justice, and labor movements. Alongside Ocasio-Cortez, we hear from the even younger Alexandra Rojas, one of the strategists who guided her political insurgency.

Propelled by scores of immersive and absorbing conversations on political strategy with young activists determined to reshape the country, this book--by a writer who is herself a member of this generational movement--is a riveting account of a resurgent left.

Author: Raina Lipsitz
ISBN-10: 1839764260
ISBN-13: 9781839764264
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 09/27/2022
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.32h x 5.82w x 0.93d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/01/2022
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2022