战斗的灵魂：与伯尼·桑德斯同行

伯尼·桑德斯最信任的密友之一对伯尼·桑德斯无与伦比的亲密描述。
伯尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders）激发了热情的爱，甚至在他的敌人中，也激发了一定程度的勉强尊重——然而，奇怪的是，我们对这个人的真实身份知之甚少，桑德斯故意把重点放在他的政策上。
现在，带着战斗的灵魂，阿里·拉宾·哈夫特带我们去了一个没有个人资料或电视采访的地方。作为桑德斯最近——也可能是最后一次——总统竞选的亲密顾问和副竞选经理，不知疲倦的拉宾·哈夫特在2017年至2020年间与这位佛蒙特州参议员共事的时间比其他任何人都多。两人在全国各地参加集会并支持罢工工人，他们访问了36个州，驱车数万英里，在无数连锁餐厅用餐。一个结果是一场轰轰烈烈的总统竞选。另一部是《战斗的灵魂》（The Fighting Soul），这是一部关于桑德斯（Sanders）在旅途中生活的令人难忘的纪事，也是这名极端独立、以私密著称的左翼煽动家的第一部深度写照。
桑德斯的第二次总统竞选始于2018年1月拉宾·哈夫特在华盛顿特区的公寓。从那里，拉宾·哈夫特提供了桑德斯竞选的幕后故事，包括他在拉斯维加斯的心脏病发作，他与进步派同僚伊丽莎白·沃伦的臭名昭著的辩论遭遇，以及桑德斯和巴拉克·奥巴马之间从未被报道过的重要对话。每走一步，拉宾·哈夫特都会在镜头关闭时向我们展示伯尼·桑德斯：他干巴巴的幽默感；他对年轻支持者的看法；他的妻子简在他做的每一个决定中都起着关键作用；还有更多。在深入研究桑德斯的生活和职业生涯时，拉宾·哈夫特（Rabin Havt）感人至深地瞥见了桑德斯在布鲁克林的童年，并首次涉足伯灵顿的政治。他透露，桑德斯对自己的晋升感到震惊：“阿里，如果我告诉父母我会成为参议员，我的父母会告诉我我疯了，更不用说我会成为美国总统了。”
尽管桑德斯的竞选以突如其来的意外失败告终，但他已经将民主党推向了左翼，并帮助重塑了美国政治——正如拉宾·哈夫特所说，他在塑造我们的历史方面所做的比任何没有入主白宫的人都多。《战斗的灵魂》是一部启示性的、发自肺腑的作品，描绘了一位受原则而非权力驱使的罕见政治家。
The Fighting Soul: On the Road with Bernie Sanders
An unparalleled and intimate account of Bernie Sanders from one of his most trusted confidants.
Bernie Sanders inspires fervent love and, even among his enemies, a measure of grudging respect―yet, curiously, we know little about who the man really is, with Sanders deliberately keeping the focus on his policies.
Now, with The Fighting Soul, Ari Rabin-Havt takes us where no profiles or televised interviews have been able to go. As a close advisor and deputy campaign manager on Sanders’s most recent―and likely last―presidential campaign, the tireless Rabin-Havt spent more hours between 2017 and 2020 with the Vermont senator than anyone else. Traveling the country for rallies and to support striking workers, the two visited thirty-six states, drove tens of thousands of miles, and ate in countless chain restaurants. One result was a meteoric and galvanizing presidential campaign. Another is The Fighting Soul, an unforgettable chronicle of life on the road with Sanders and the first in-depth portrait of this fiercely independent, and famously private, left-wing firebrand.
Sanders’s second bid for the presidency began in Rabin-Havt’s apartment in Washington DC in January 2018. From there, Rabin-Havt offers a behind-the-scenes account of Sanders’s run, including his heart attack in Las Vegas, his notorious debate encounter with fellow-progressive Elizabeth Warren, and a momentous conversation between Sanders and Barack Obama that has never been reported before. At every step, Rabin-Havt shows us Bernie Sanders when the cameras turn off: his dry sense of humor; his views of his young supporters; the pivotal role his wife, Jane, plays in every decision he makes; and more. Delving into Sanders’s life and career, with moving glimpses of his childhood in Brooklyn and first forays into politics in Burlington, Rabin-Havt discloses that Sanders is shocked by his ascent: “Ari, my parents would tell me I was crazy if I told them I would become a senator, much less could become president of the United States.”
Though his campaign ended in abrupt and unexpected defeat, Sanders has pushed the Democratic Party to the left and helped remake American politics―as Rabin-Havt suggests, he has done more to shape our history than anyone else who has not reached the White House. Revelatory and heartfelt, The Fighting Soul depicts the rare politician motivated by principle, not power.

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