Ari Rabin-Havt served as deputy campaign manager on Senator Bernie Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign and was a Sanders aide from 2017 to 2021. His writing has appeared in the New Republic and the Washington Post, among other publications, and he lives in Washington, DC.
Rabin-Havt delivers an admirable portrait of his candidate... Among the better campaign confessionals and just the thing for presidential-politics wonks.-- Kirkus Reviews Rabin-Havt describes, sometimes in humorous detail, the determined, principled persona that Sanders consistently embodied.... Offers insightful details of campaign rallies and 2020 primary debates and documents the drama and excitement of the Sanders campaign's increasing success.... A thoughtful and comprehensive account of the Sanders 2020 campaign and an authoritative description of the candidate's personality.--Jill Ortner Library Journal The maverick socialist senator from Vermont flouts the norms of presidential politics in this rollicking campaign memoir . . . Rabin-Havt's account of the Democratic primary race is breezy, colorful, and often insightful . . . the portrait of Sanders as a crusty but caring man, passionately committed to principles and the interests of working-class people, vividly shows why he is one of America's most influential politicians.-- Publishers Weekly In The Fighting Soul: On the Road With Bernie Sanders, the former adviser offers an intimate portrait of his cranky boss, writing about everything from Sanders's famous mittens, to his love of picket lines and Motown songs, to his distaste for 'the inane droning of cable news commentators, ' to his prescient fear that Donald Trump was 'nuts' and would upend democracy.--Maureen Dowd New York Times