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  • The Ones We've Been Waiting For

  • How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America
  • Written by: Charlotte Alter
  • Narrated by: Charlotte Alter
  • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins

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The Ones We've Been Waiting For

Written by: Charlotte Alter
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Publisher's Summary

An optimistic look at the future of American leadership by a brilliant young reporter

A new generation is stepping up. There are now 26 millennials in Congress - a fivefold increase gained in the 2018 midterms alone. They are governing Midwestern cities and college towns, running for city councils, and serving in state legislatures. They are acting urgently on climate change (because they are going to live it); they care deeply about student debt (because they have it); they are utilizing big tech but still want to regulate it (because they understand how it works). In The Ones We've Been Waiting For, Time correspondent Charlotte Alter defines the class of young leaders who are remaking the nation - 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 govern the future.

Through the experiences of millennial leaders - from progressive firebrand Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg to Republican up-and-comer Elise Stefanik - Charlotte 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. The Ones We've Been Waiting For is a hopeful glimpse into a bright new generation of political leaders, and what America might look like when they are in charge.

©2020 Charlotte Alter (P)2020 Penguin Audio

Critic Reviews

"Alter is an exceptional storyteller...this nuanced and comprehensive guide does an admirable job illuminating the next generation of political leaders & the issues that drive them." (Publishers Weekly)

"The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For is an excellent and timely look at the young leaders who are at the gates, and a lesson in what we have to learn from them. If you’re curious about what the future looks like, this book is a thorough, thoughtful place to start." (Rebecca Traister, New York Times best-selling author of Good and Mad and All the Single Ladies)

"For anyone who has dismissed millennials or who cares about our country’s future, Charlotte Alter has written a riveting, essential book. In bringing to vivid life the young upstarts who will ultimately inherit our democracy, Alter has inadvertently given us another vital young voice that will shape our political future: Hers." (Amy Chozick, New York Times best-selling author of Chasing Hillary)

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