Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. Being a politician and an activist are two

very different roles. Even if the end goal is the same, the roots getting there look very different.

I guess no one knows this more than Jesse Jackson, a man who's worn both hats at different times in his life.

CNN host Abby Phillip has written a biography of Jackson titled A Dream Deferred Jesse Jackson

and the Fight for Black Political Power.

And ahead, she talks to NPR's Asia Roscoe about what Jackson saw as the difference between

the two worlds and what political movements today can learn from him.

That's after the break.

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Reverend Jesse Jackson is an icon of the civil rights movement and a protege of Martin Luther

King Jr. But he was also a politician whose groundbreaking campaigns in the 1980s would eventually

pave the way for the first black U.S. President Barack Obama.

Here's Jackson addressing the Democrats during his 1988 presidential campaign.

Support economic development. You know it's right. Be consistent and gain our moral authority in the world.

I challenge you tonight, my friends, let's be bigger and better as a nation and as a party.

A new book by CNN anchor Abby Phillip charts Jackson's rise in his political legacy.

It's called A Dream Deferred, Jesse Jackson and the Fight

for Black Political Power. Abby Phillip joins us now. Welcome to the program. Thank you so much for

having me, Aisha. So this book looks at how Jesse Jackson became one of the most powerful and influential

black politicians of his time.

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