A riveting insider account of the progressive movement in Congress
centering A.O.C., Rashida Tlaib, Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, Ayanna
Pressley, and Ilhan Omar--their rise, their efforts to set an ambitious
agenda for the country, and their struggle to find their footing within
the Democratic party.
The Squad is the definitive, must-read book about the most exciting
figures defining our new era. The story is urgent, and the stakes are
high--for the country and the world--and Grim, an experienced political
reporter who covered the Squad before they were the Squad, is uniquely
qualified to tell it.
When Bernie Sanders, an obscure Vermont senator, launched his quixotic
2016 presidential campaign, few could have seen just how radically the
Democratic Party would transform in just a few short years--or that such
a transformation could be led by a Bronx bartender volunteering for
Bernie in her spare time. The world as it was when that campaign began
is almost unrecognizable today, and the Squad has both shaped and been
shaped by the seismic social, cultural, and political changes underway.
Referred to informally as the Squad, led by the preternaturally
politically savvy Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the group laid down a marker
for an aggressive left-wing agenda. Grim takes you behind the scenes as
that new energy makes impact with Washington, and the Squad spends as
much time fending off assaults from Donald Trump--who regularly singled
them out and led chants of "send them back" at rallies--as they did
battling their own party's sclerotic leadership. As they've grown in
office, they've had to contend with the eternal question that confronts
outsiders who power their way into the inside: Are they still radical
organizers willing and able to lead a political revolution?
