‘It’s about being bold and gutsy’: Senator Ron Wyden on change in the age of Trump

The Oregon Democrat has written a book, a call for chutzpah' from those seeking political progress

Ron Wyden of Oregon, the second-most senior Democrat in the US Senate, has written a book. Not your average political memoir, it's called It Takes Chutzpah: How to Fight Fearlessly for Progressive Change, and it does indeed look like a campaign handbook, a stylized megaphone blaring its title on the cover.

I've read a lot of politicians' books," Wyden says. They're just deadening because there's a lot of bragging. You know, I passed this, and I passed that.' Then there's a section where they say, I'm being urged by so many people to run for president.' And then they feign un-interest, and then the third section is, Here's my presidential exploratory committee.'