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Cargando... Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator (2022)por Sofia Warren
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Apparently I prefer my politics in easy-to-understand graphic novels and snarky commentary by The Stranger. This was great. I know almost nothing about New York Politics and I found it fascinating. I particularly liked seeing the different ways that decisions were made and how Salazar tried to balance the needs of her constituents against a bogged-down system, although the corruption makes me furious. Anyway, can we have one of these for every race? ( ) Cartoonist Sofia Warren embeds herself in the offices of a newly-elected New York state senator, Julia Salazar, hanging with her staff and talking to Salazar regularly during her first year in office. Salazar, a Jewish Latina in her late twenties, is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America whose agenda focuses on tenant rights and affordable housing. I was never bored as I read the book, but it did start to veer more and more away from being about Salazar and more about the legislative process in Albany. Warren gives a sympathetic portrait of Salazar and her staff, portraying them as earnest and driven, but I never felt like I knew them much beyond a surface impression, especially as the book tipped toward following the somewhat dramatic outcome of a legislative package. Old West Wing fans like me will probably get a kick out of this. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
You won the election... now what? Activist organizing meets government gridlock as a millennial New Yorker cartoonist follows a first-year senator on her unforgettable journey - from outsider to insider. In early 2018, cartoonist Sofia Warren was not paying attention to New York state politics. But that summer, her Brooklyn neighborhood began buzzing about Julia Salazar, a 27-year-old democratic socialist running for state senate whose grassroots campaign was inspiring an army of volunteers. When they beat the odds and won, Warren found herself wondering what would happen next. How does it work when an outsider who runs on revolutionary change has to actually do the job? So she decided to find out. Using the graphic memoir format, Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator is a remarkable first-hand account of Warren's experience embedded with Julia Salazar and her staff during their first year in office. From candid conversations and eyewitness experiences, Warren builds a gripping and intimate portrait of a scrappy team of community organizers battling entrenched power structures, particularly to advance Julia's marquee issue of housing rights. At every key point during the year - setting up an office, navigating insider politics, public pushback, testy staff meetings, emotional speeches, protest marches, setbacks, and victories - Warren is up close and personal with Julia and her team, observing, questioning, and drawing, as they try to translate their ideals into concrete legislation. Along the way, Warren works toward answers to deeper questions: what makes a good leader? What does it mean to be a part of a community? Can democracy work? How can everyday people make change happen? All these themes are explored - with nuance, compassion, and humor - in Sofia Warren's remarkable debut. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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