How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politics Audiobook (Free)
- Lauren Duca
- 5 h 3 min
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2019-09-24
Summary:
Teen Vogue award-winning columnist Lauren Duca shares a good and funny guide for difficult the status quo within a much-needed reminder that teenagers will be the ones who’ll transformation the world.
A columnist at Teen Vogue, Lauren Duca has become a fresh and authoritative voice on the knowledge of millennials in today’s culture. In these webpages she explores the post-Trump political awakening and lays the groundwork for the re-democratizing moment as it might be built out of the untapped potential of about How to start out a Revolution: TEENAGERS and the continuing future of American Politics young people.
Duca investigates and explains the problems at the main of our ailing political program and reimagines what an equitable democracy would appear to be. It starts with young people getting involved. People like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman ever to become elected to Congress; David and Lauren Hogg, two survivors of the Parkland, Florida capturing who went on to be advocates for weapon control; Amanda Litman, who founded the nonprofit organization Run For Something, to assist progressive young people in down ballot elections; and many more.
Called “the millennial feminist warrior queen of social media” by Ariel Levy and “a nationwide newsmaker” by THE BRAND NEW York Times, Dan Rather agrees “we require fresh, intelligent, and creative voices—like Lauren’s—now as much—perhaps more—than previously.” Here, Duca combines extensive analysis and first-person reporting to monitor her generation’s shift from political alienation to political participation. Throughout, she also attracts on her personal story as a young girl catapulted to leading lines from the political discussion (all while figuring out how to deal with her Trump-supporting parents).
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