In 2016, Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont ran what many considered to be a highly successful presidential campaign for the Democratic party. So successful, in fact, that some supporters believe that he should have beaten Hillary Clinton and won the Democratic Party Nomination (since the election, there have been allegations -- by former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair Donna Brazile most prominently -- that Hillary and the DNC rigged the system so Bernie could not win the nomination).
Nevertheless, Sanders' book is both about his time on the campaign trail (both his own, and the 3 months preceding the 2016 Presidential election in which he campaigned for Hillary Clinton). He talks about some of the best and most transformative experiences on the campaign trail and talks about why he made some of the decisions he made on the trail. However, he also talks a lot of ideas, particularly his fight against climate change, his fight for free college tuition, closing the gender wage gap, and providing health care ("Medicare for All," as he calls it) for every single person.
Upon release, Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In made it onto The New York Times bestseller list. John R. Coyne Jr. of The Washington Post loved the book, 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." David Weigel of The Denver Post thought less highly of the book, writing that the book is "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."
