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    Review: 'Knock Down the House' reveals the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez behind the media firestorm

    by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Apr 30, 2019 2 minutes

    Imagine focusing a camera when Lyndon Johnson began pressing Texas flesh, or being on the scene when Abraham Lincoln started out in Illinois. That same excitement of present-at-the-creation political discovery powers "Knock Down the House," and no wonder.

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York has not always been the most talked about new member of Congress. She hasn't always been so well known that simply using her initials -

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