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The Rebels

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Less inherently dramatic perhaps than Green's Steve Bannon chronicle <I>Devil's Bargain</i> but a similarly insightful study of how an insurgent movement overthrew a political party's seemingly unshakeable orthodoxy almost by accident. Green's history is particularly valuable for its pinpointing of Jimmy Carter as the Democratic leader who began the party's shift away from labor-friendly economic populism to Wall Street-allied neoliberalism before Bill Clinton (who usually gets all the criticism) fully cemented it. Also some good thumbnail portraits of Warren, Sanders, and Ocasio-Cortez that go beyond the usual caricatures.

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