Bernie Sanders book tour skims past Vermont

Aug 27 2017, 5:29 PM


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It’s not for lack of interest. Contact most any of the state’s independent bookstores and staffers will tell you how they’ve tried unsuccessfully to schedule presentations.

“We would give anything to host Bernie,” says Nancy Braus, co-owner of Everyone’s Books in Brattleboro. “The people who work here have helped with all his campaigns.”

The preview copy promises a “national marketing and publicity campaign” featuring “select large-scale author appearances.” So far that doesn’t include any of the three Vermont stores on the author’s cross-country “Our Revolution” tour last fall (Burlington’s Phoenix Books, Manchester’s Northshire Bookstore and Montpelier’s Bear Pond Books) or smaller locations like Everyone’s Books, even though the Brattleboro store once hosted a Sanders’ campaign office in the stockroom.

Privately, booksellers are split over the senator’s lack of home-state readings. Some say that because nearly three-quarters of Vermonters voted for him in his most recent election, his time is better spent introducing his ideas elsewhere. But others believe such strong support is why he should remember the Green Mountain residents who have given him a national political platform.

“We should have some access to these events that are happening all over the country,” Braus says. “We need anything that would give us hope in a dark time.”




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