Harry Jaffe is a leading journalist covering Washington, DC—its politics, its crime, its heroes and villains. Beyond Washington, Jaffe’s work has been published in Yahoo News, Men’s Health, Harper’s, Esquire, and newspapers from the San Francisco Examiner to the Philadelphia Inquirer. He’s appeared in documentary films, and on television and radio across the country and throughout Europe.
"Jaffe . . . [paints] a vivid portrait of Sanders's early life . .
. brings readers up to date on the bid for the Democratic
presidential nomination . . . to demonstrate 'why Bernie Sanders
matters.'"
—K. Biswas, New Statesman
“Whatever your politics, Bernie Sanders is an only-in-America
original. Jaffe nails the story of the rise of a scrappy kid from
Brooklyn and why he won’t quit.”
—Brian Kelly, editor and chief content officer for U.S. News &
World Report
“A timely primer on America’s rumpled and lovable socialist.”
—Dana Milbank, columnist, Washington Post
“Harry Jaffe's deep reporting takes us into Sanders’s past to
expose the forces that made him a socialist in his early days and
the political prowess that propelled a child from Brooklyn to
become Vermont’s US Senator and a viable contender for the White
House. It’s an improbable story, well told.”
—Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent, Yahoo!
News
“At last, the most comprehensive account yet of the life and career
of Bernie Sanders. Harry Jaffe has done a remarkable job in this
lucid and engaging biography of the radical maverick who keeps
defying the rules of political gravity. Whether you love Sanders or
hate him, you need to read this book to fully understand him.”
—Mark Feldstein, former CNN correspondent and author of Poisoning
the Press
“Jaffe perfectly portrays Bernie Sanders as a product of Brooklyn
in the 1950s, the biggest small town in America, the fourth largest
city in the country, where each neighborhood was like a village.
Jaffe’s reporting captures how Brooklyn and James Madison High
School prepared Bernie Sanders to understand the history of the
nation and the political and social issues of today.”
—Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, president emeritus and university
professor of George Washington University, class of James Madison
High School '55
"Harry Jaffe’s . . . readily readable biography, Why Bernie Sanders
Matters, provides a good background and history on the events and
political philosophy."
—Jim Miles, Foreign Policy Journal
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