Can Bernie Win And Also Change America?
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By Murray Polner
A review of Harry Jaffe’s biography of Sanders, “Why Bernie Sanders Matters.”
BBernie Sanders is no Eugene McCarthy but he does resemble that insurgent politician-poet’s failed effort to win the Democratic nomination in 1968. “Green for Gene,” went the cry from his enthusiastic young followers while their elders, undisturbed by the draft and the war, chose Nixon. Echoing that distant era, someone in Harry Jaffe’s compelling and timely biography shouted for another unorthodox politician, “We love you Bernie.”