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The ones we've been waiting for, how a new generation of leaders will transform America, Charlotte Alter

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-333) and index

contains biographical information

index present

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The ones we've been waiting for

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Charlotte Alter

how a new generation of leaders will transform America

America is run by old people -- but it's won't be for long. Millennials are governing cities, serving in state legislatures, gaining seats in Congress, and reshaping American political attitudes for a new generation. Charlotte Alter traces how grappling with 9/11 as teens, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, occupying Wall Street and protesting with Black Lives Matter, and shouldering their way into a financially rigged political system has shaped the people who will inevitably govern the future. Through the experiences of millennial leaders -- from progressive firebrand Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Democratic whiz kid Pete Buttigieg to Republican up-and-comer Elise Stefanik -- Alter gives the big-picture look at how this generation governs differently than their elders, and how they may drag us out of our current political despair. Millennials have already revolutionized technology, commerce, and media and have powered the major social movements of our time. Now government is ripe for disruption. This book is a hopeful glimpse into a bright new generation of political leaders, and of what America might look like when they are in charge

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Ones we have been waiting for