03341cam a2200421 i 4500 549986737 TxAuBib 20220315120000.0 220208s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2022007200 9781501166976 HRD 28.00 1501166972 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib rda Take up space [BOOK] : the unprecedented AOC / by the editors of New York Magazine ; introduction by Rebecca Traister. First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. New York : Avid Reader Press, 2022. xxv, 370 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-342) and index. The candidate was young—twenty-eight years old, a child of Puerto Rico, the Bronx, and Yorktown Heights. She was working as a waitress and bartender. She was completely unknown, and taking on a ten-term incumbent in a city famous for protecting its political institutions. “Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in a video launching her campaign, the camera following her as she hastily pulled her hair into a bun. But she did. And in perhaps the most stunning upset in recent memory, she won. At twenty-nine, she was sworn in as the youngest member of the 116th Congress and became the youngest woman to serve as a representative in United States history. Before long, Ocasio-Cortez had earned her own shorthand title—AOC—and was one of the most talked-about public figures (loved and loathed) in the world. Her natural ability to connect with everyday people through the social media feeds grew her following into the multimillions. Every statement she made, every tweet and Instagram Live, went viral, and her term had barely begun before people were speculating that she could one day be president. The question seemed to be on everyone’s mind: How did this woman come from nowhere to acquire such influence, and so fast? Now, in Take Up Space, that question is answered through a kaleidoscopic biography by the editors of New York magazine that features the riveting account of her rise by Lisa Miller, an essay by Rebecca Traister that explains why she is an unprecedented figure in American politics, and multiform explorations (reportage, comic, history, analysis, photography) of AOC’s outsize impact on American culture and politics. Provided by publisher. 20220315. Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria 1989- Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria 1989- Influence. United States Congress House Biography. New York magazine. Hispanic American women legislators Biography. Legislators United States Biography. Hispanic American women Political activity. Hispanic Americans Political activity. Biographies. New York (N.Y) Biography. Traister, Rebecca, writer of introduction.