“Anyone who wants to change the world… should read this book.”
—Andrew Yang
LONGSHOT
How Political Nobodies Took Andrew Yang National—and the New Playbook That Let Us Build a Movement
In Longshot, Andrew Yang’s campaign manager takes you on a tour through the ups, the downs, and the math of Yang’s 2020 campaign for president, and shares the playbook his team used to navigate the attention economy.
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Praise for Longshot
“A harbinger of the meta political changes for generations to come… an absolute must read”
— Saagar Enjeti, co-host of Breaking Points
"Zach took an unknown candidate and made him into the most improbable of household names… [LONGSHOT is] candid, entertaining, and informative.”
— Lis Smith, Senior Communications Director, Pete Buttigieg
“Universal Basic Income as inevitable U.S. policy would not be where it is today without the 21st century tactics laid out in LONGSHOT.”
— Scott Santens, senior advisor at Humanity Forward and editor of Basic Income Today
Andrew Yang did not win the 2020 Democratic primary, let alone the presidency of the United States. But chances are you know who Andrew Yang is, and you may well be part of the 75 percent of Americans who now support Universal Basic Income—both facts that would have seemed beyond unlikely at the start of Yang’s campaign. That campaign was helmed by Zach Graumann: entrepreneur, marketing expert, and, at the time, political nonentity. In fact, when Graumann joined Yang 2020, no one on the team was an expert in campaigning, but they all shared a fervent desire to change the future.
Yet, despite that inexperience, by the time Yang dropped out of the race in early 2020, he’d not only outlasted four senators, four governors, seven Congressmen and women, two mayors, and one cabinet secretary… he’d become one of the most recognizable, popular political figures in the country.
Now, for the first time,, Graumann tells the story of how Yang went from nobody to national presence, breathing life into the behind-the-scenes antics of the unusual campaign that started a movement. In the process, he demystifies the world of political campaigns and provides takeaways that will help not only the next generation of campaign managers, but anyone who wants to break into a new industry—or stand out in their current one.
A book for everyone from members of the Yang Gang who want the inside story to businesspeople looking for self-improvement to anyone who has ever had a dream that felt bigger than they were, Longshot reminds you that sometimes, longshots aren’t quite as long as you think.