Our Revolution (Sanders book)

This article is about the book by Bernie Sanders. For the political action committee, see Our Revolution.

Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In is a book by U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders, published by Thomas Dunne Books in November 2016.^[1]

Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In

First edition cover
Author	Bernie Sanders
Audio read by	Bernie Sanders Mark Ruffalo
Language	English
Subjects	2016 presidential election climate change free education income inequality gender pay gap
Publisher	Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin's Press
Publication date	November 15, 2016
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover and paperback), e-book, audiobook
Pages	464
ISBN	978-1-250-13292-5 (hardcover)
OCLC	1026148801
Dewey Decimal	973.932092 B
LC Class	E840.8.S26 A3 2016
Preceded by	The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class
Followed by	Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution

It was released on November 15, 2016, a week after the election of Donald Trump. The book was written in the context of Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign and aimed to explain some of its rationale.

Contents

In the book, Sanders sets out his position on climate change, free college tuition, income inequality, closing the gender wage gap and defeating Donald Trump while campaigning for Hillary Clinton during the last three months leading to the 2016 presidential election.^[2]

Sanders discusses how his presidential campaign was considered by the political establishment and the media to be a "fringe" campaign and something not to be taken seriously.^[2] He discusses his initial struggle as being an "Independent senator from a small state with little name recognition".

Reception

Upon its release, it was on The New York Times Best Seller list at number 3.^[3]

John R. Coyne Jr. gave the memoir a positive review for The Washington Times saying that "For starters, it tells us who this man who energized so many young people really is—an enthusiastic young socialist trapped in an old curmudgeon's body, his ideas basically just as fresh to him today as when he left his native Brooklyn".^[4]

David Weigel of The Denver Post said that the memoir was "like a sitcom character who gets beaned on the head and hallucinates an angel—or a talking dog, or a 75-year-old senator from Vermont—spinning lessons about what really matters in life".^[5]

Sanders and Mark Ruffalo were nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.^[6]

See also

• Stronger Together, Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign book
• Crippled America, Donald Trump's 2016 campaign book published in 2015
• Our Revolution, a PAC set up to support Sanders's policies and campaign for progressive candidates