Theatre in San Jose, California, on March 4, and at the Tucson Festival of Books in Tucson, Arizona, on March 5. Tickets for Sanders' tour were sold on Ticketmaster, for up to $95 each in Washington. He was paid $170,000 by Penguin Random House for the book. Sanders did not schedule or price the tour and gets none of its proceeds. Reception On its release day, February 21, It's OK to be Angry About Capitalism topped Amazon's best-seller list in the U.S. national government, political economy, and economic conditions categories. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, the book is a "damning indictment of the past 40 years of largely unfettered, neoliberal capitalism". Zoe Williams of The Guardian says the book "tackles the grim facts about the economic order that the political establishment wilfully ignores" and "is easily as frustrating and depressing as it is galvanising and uplifting". See also Criticism of capitalism References Further reading External links 2023 non-fiction books American political books Books by Bernie Sanders Books critical of capitalism English-language books Crown Publishing Group books