How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politics Audiobook
How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politics Audiobook
- Lauren Duca
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2019-09-24
- 5 h 3 min
Summary:
Teen Vogue award-winning columnist Lauren Duca shares a smart and funny guide for challenging the status quo in a much-needed reminder that teenagers will be the ones who’ll modification 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 pages she explores the post-Trump political awakening and lays the groundwork for a re-democratizing moment as it can be built out of the untapped potential of about how exactly to Start a Revolution: TEENAGERS and the Future of American Politics teenagers.
Duca investigates and explains the issues at the main of our ailing political program and reimagines what an equitable democracy would appear to be. It starts with teenagers getting included. People like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest girl ever to be elected to Congress; David and Lauren Hogg, two survivors of the Parkland, Florida capturing who continued to become advocates for gun control; Amanda Litman, who founded the non-profit organization Operate For Something, to aid progressive young people in down ballot elections; and so many more.
Known as “the millennial feminist warrior queen of social media” by Ariel Levy and “a national newsmaker” by THE BRAND NEW York Times, Dan Rather agrees “we require fresh, smart, and creative voices—like Lauren’s—now as very much—perhaps more—than previously.” Here, Duca combines extensive study and first-person reporting to track her generation’s change from political alienation to political participation. Throughout, she also pulls on her personal story as a young female catapulted to leading lines of the political conversation (all while figuring out how to approach her Trump-supporting parents).