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Books by and about 2020 presidential candidates |
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Crippled America,
by Donald J. Trump (2015) |
Fire and Fury,
by Michael Wolff (2018) |
Trump Revealed,
by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher (2016) |
The Making of Donald Trump,
by David Cay Johnston (2016) |
Promise Me, Dad ,
by Joe Biden (2017) |
The Book of Joe ,
by Jeff Wilser (2019; biography of Joe Biden) |
The Truths We Hold,
by Kamala Harris (2019) |
Smart on Crime,
by Kamala Harris (2010) |
Guide to Political Revolution,
by Bernie Sanders (2017) |
Where We Go From Here,
by Bernie Sanders (2018) |
Our Revolution,
by Bernie Sanders (2016) |
This Fight Is Our Fight,
by Elizabeth Warren (2017) |
United,
by Cory Booker (2016) |
Conscience of a Conservative,
by Jeff Flake (2017) |
Two Paths,
by Gov. John Kasich (2017) |
Every Other Monday,
by Rep. John Kasich (2010) |
Courage is Contagious,
by John Kasich (1998) |
Shortest Way Home,
by Pete Buttigieg (2019) |
Becoming,
by Michelle Obama (2018) |
Higher Loyalty,
by James Comey (2018) |
The Making of Donald Trump,
by David Cay Johnston (2017) |
Trump vs. Hillary On The Issues ,
by Jesse Gordon (2016) |
Outsider in the White House,
by Bernie Sanders (2015) |
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Book Reviews |
(from Amazon.com) |
(click a book cover for a review or other books by or about the presidency from Amazon.com)
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The Democrats:
Biographies of Biden, Sanders, Warren, Harris, and Booker
by Alexander Moore
(Click for Amazon book review)
BOOK REVIEW by OnTheIssues.org:
This book provides a mini-biography for each of 5 leading candidates in the Democratic primary. It's written as 5 mini-books about fifty pages each, with 5 separate tables of contents, then a brief life story of each of the 5 candidates, then a summary of 5 sets of issue stances.
This book was published in July 2019, when there were over an additional dozen contenders in the Democratic primary. For example, the primary debate in July 2019 had twenty participants. And to be published in July, the book had to be written several months earlier, so the author chose his biographical subjects well. We're excerpting this book after the 2020 election, so we focus on Biden and Harris -- in fact, we excerpted this book BECAUSE it included Biden and Harris!
Each mini-book opens with an epithet about the candidate:
- Joe Biden: Protector of the Democracy
- Bernie Sanders: America's Socialist Savior
- Elizabeth Warren: The Woman With a Plan
- Kamala Harris: A Biography
- Cory Booker: A Biography
This book doesn't dive deeply into any candidate -- it's independently published and very poorly edited -- but the author has dug up enough little-known details so it's a decent introduction to each of the five candidates.
-- Jesse Gordon, OnTheIssues editor, December 2020
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Corporations
Cory Booker: 2012: as mayor, for two corporate HQs to move to Newark.
Elizabeth Warren: 2012 OpEd: No greater threat to free enterprise than Warren.
Elizabeth Warren: Too-big-for-trial.
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Crime
Joe Biden: 1984: Passed Comprehensive Crime Control Act.
Kamala Harris: Sister, Maya, authored "Activist's Guide to Police Reform".
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Drugs
Joe Biden: 2003 sponsorship: RAVE Act to fight date rape drug.
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Education
Bernie Sanders: Rejected from Harvard in 1950s due to Jewish quota.
Elizabeth Warren: Childhood career goal was teacher.
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Government Reform
Joe Biden: AdWatch 1972: Do you trust politicians? Let me change that.
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Immigration
Joe Biden: 2007: We need a fair and workable immigration system.
Kamala Harris: 2017: denounced Trump's refuges policy as "Muslim ban".
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Principles & Values
Bernie Sanders: Three uncles perished in Holocaust in Poland in WWII.
Bernie Sanders: Celebrated his bar mitzvah in 1954 in Brooklyn.
Bernie Sanders: College member of Young People's Socialist League.
Bernie Sanders: Ran for Governor of Vermont in 1972 and 1976.
Cory Booker: 1998: won first race for Newark City Council.
Elizabeth Warren: 2017: silenced in Senate; "Nevertheless, she persisted".
Kamala Harris: Stepchildren call her "Momala" instead of "stepmother".
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Social Security
Bernie Sanders: 2013: Expand benefits and create $2.8 trillion surplus.
Bernie Sanders: 2000: Fought IBM pension cuts; workers regained $320M.
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Tax Reform
Robert Reich: Expand EITC & raise bottom of SSI tax, as tax cut to poor.
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Technology
Bernie Sanders: 2000s: Voted NO on Online Freedom of Speech Act.
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War & Peace
Joe Biden: 1990s: Support Bosnian Muslims with NATO air strikes.
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Welfare & Poverty
Bernie Sanders: 1963: College volunteer at Israeli kibbutz.
Cory Booker: 2012: Increased affordable housing by 2,500 units.
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The above quotations are from The Democrats:
Biographies of Biden, Sanders, Warren, Harris, and Booker
by Alexander Moore.
Books from 2020-2022 electoral races:
- Persist, by Elizabeth Warren, May 4, 2021
- Madam Speaker, by Susan Page , Apr. 20, 2021
- Kamala's Way, by Dan Morain, Jan. 12, 2021
- American Crisis, by Andrew Cuomo , Oct. 13, 2020
- Speaking for Myself, by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, September 1, 2020
- The Contender, by Michael Shnayerson, Aug. 4, 2020
- Too Much and Never Enough, by Mary L. Trump, Jul. 14, 2020
- Our Time Is Now, by Stacey Abrams , Jun. 9, 2020
- This Is What America Looks Like, by Ilhan Omar, May 26, 2020
- A Very Stable Genius, by Philip Rucker, Jan. 21, 2020
- Barack and Joe, by Steven Levingston, Oct. 8, 2019
- Piety & Power, by Tom LoBianco , Sep. 24, 2019
- Fear: Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward, September 10, 2019
- The Democrats, by Alexander Moore, July 19, 2019
- Lead from the Outside, by Stacey Abrams, Mar. 26, 2019
- Education and Equality, by Danielle Allen, Feb. 9, 2018
- JFK and the Reagan Revolution, by Lawrence Kudlow, Sep. 6, 2016
- Saving Capitalism, by Robert Reich, May 3, 2016
- Our Declaration, by Danielle S. Allen, May 4, 2015
- Rules for Radicals, by Saul Alinsky, Oct. 23, 1989
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