How Bernie Won: Inside the Revolution to Take Back Our Country

The brilliant manager of Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign shows how Bernie took on the entire establishment and changed modern American politics for good

When Jeff Weaver hopped in a car with Bernie Sanders in the summer of 1986, he had no idea the Vermont backroads would lead them all the way to the 2016 presidential campaign

In How Bernie Won, Weaver shows how Bernie built a movement that would sweep America and inspire millions He vowed not to run a negative campaign He would focus on policies, not personalities He would not be beholden to big money He would actually make America great Weaver also shows how they overcame significant challenges: A media that thrived on negative campaigns A party that thrived on personalities And a political system that thrived on big money Weaver explains how Bernie beat them all and, in doing so, went from having little national name recognition when he entered to the race to being one of the most respected and well-known people in the world by its end--because, Weaver argues, Bernie won the race

He moved the discussion from the concerns of the 1% to those of the 99% He forced the Democrats to remember their populist roots And he showed that an outsider with real ideas and ways to get them done was more popular than someone propped up by backroom political sugar daddies

From holding bags of "Bernie buttons" and picket-stick signs, to managing thousands of campaign workers, to looking ahead to 2020, Weaver chronicles the birth of a revolution that didn't end in November 2016 It's only just begun