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A stunning four-color biography of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the bestselling tradition of Notorious RBG and Pelosi that explores her explosive rise and impact on the future of American culture and politics.
The candidate was young—twenty-eight years old, a child of Puerto Rico, the Bronx, and Yorktown Heights. She was working as a waitress and bartender. She was completely unknown, and taking on a ten-term incumbent in a city famous for protecting its political institutions. “Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in a video launching her campaign, the camera following her as she hastily pulled her hair into a bun. But she did. And in perhaps the most stunning upset in recent memory, she won. At twenty-nine, she was sworn in as the youngest member of the 116th Congress and became the youngest woman to serve as a representative in United States history.
Before long, Ocasio-Cortez had earned her own shorthand title—AOC—and was one of the most talked-about public figures (loved and loathed) in the world. Her natural ability to connect with everyday people through the social media feeds grew her following into the multimillions. Every statement she made, every tweet and Instagram Live, went viral, and her term had barely begun before people were speculating that she could one day be president. The question seemed to be on everyone’s mind: How did this woman come from nowhere to acquire such influence, and so fast?
Now, in Take Up Space, that question is answered through a kaleidoscopic biography by the editors of New York magazine that features the riveting account of her rise by Lisa Miller, an essay by Rebecca Traister that explains why she is an unprecedented figure in American politics, and multiform explorations (reportage, comic, history, analysis, photography) of AOC’s outsize impact on American culture and politics. Throughout, AOC is revealed in all her power and vulnerability, and understood in the context of the fast-changing America that made her possible—and perhaps even inevitable.
The candidate was young—twenty-eight years old, a child of Puerto Rico, the Bronx, and Yorktown Heights. She was working as a waitress and bartender. She was completely unknown, and taking on a ten-term incumbent in a city famous for protecting its political institutions. “Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in a video launching her campaign, the camera following her as she hastily pulled her hair into a bun. But she did. And in perhaps the most stunning upset in recent memory, she won. At twenty-nine, she was sworn in as the youngest member of the 116th Congress and became the youngest woman to serve as a representative in United States history.
Before long, Ocasio-Cortez had earned her own shorthand title—AOC—and was one of the most talked-about public figures (loved and loathed) in the world. Her natural ability to connect with everyday people through the social media feeds grew her following into the multimillions. Every statement she made, every tweet and Instagram Live, went viral, and her term had barely begun before people were speculating that she could one day be president. The question seemed to be on everyone’s mind: How did this woman come from nowhere to acquire such influence, and so fast?
Now, in Take Up Space, that question is answered through a kaleidoscopic biography by the editors of New York magazine that features the riveting account of her rise by Lisa Miller, an essay by Rebecca Traister that explains why she is an unprecedented figure in American politics, and multiform explorations (reportage, comic, history, analysis, photography) of AOC’s outsize impact on American culture and politics. Throughout, AOC is revealed in all her power and vulnerability, and understood in the context of the fast-changing America that made her possible—and perhaps even inevitable.
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Index
A note about the index: The pages referenced in this index refer to the page numbers in the print edition. Clicking on a page number will take you to the ebook location that corresponds to the beginning of that page in the print edition. For a comprehensive list of locations of any word or phrase, use your reading system’s search function.
A
- Abernathy, Ralph, 64
- #AbolishICE, 72–73
- Abramovic, Marina, 228
- Abzug, Bella, 256, 258
- African Americans. See Black Americans
- All In with Chris Hayes, 163, 173
- Allison, Isra, 165, 261
- Amazon, 113–14, 266–70
- American left
- activist left, 34, 41, 53–54, 58, 183–86
- AOC’s childhood and, 20, 220
- countercultural left, 261
- history of, 252–59
- ideological purity of, 77, 185
- institutional left, 75–76
- leftist generation, 190, 258
- mainstream left, 194
- millennial left, xv, 53, 69, 169
- New Left, 255, 268
- progressive left, 10, 52, 127, 155–56, 178, 181, 193
- See also socialism
- Arab Spring (2010), 9
- Archambault, Dave, II, 229
- Artist Is Present, The (Abramovic), 228
B
- Baker, Eric, 35, 36, 43–44
- Balderas, Kim, 69, 70, 71–72, 75
- Barr, Roseanne, 135
- Benitez, Carolyn, 42
- Bezos, Jeff, 114, 268
- Bhagavad Gita, 13
- Biden, Joe
- 2020 election win of, 187
- alignment with new generation, 10
- on AOC, 156
- AOC on, 176–...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- About This Book
- Introduction: Before AOC, After AOC
- A Life In Four Chapters
- And…
- Appendix
- Note on Sources and Bibliography
- About the Authors
- Contributors
- Particular Thanks
- Index
- Image Credits
- Copyright