A Fighting Chance / Elizabeth Warren
- Bib ID:
- 8038397
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Warren, Elizabeth, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Brunswick : Scribe Publications, 2014
- Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2014
- 1 online resource (384 pages)
- ISBN:
- 9781925113525 (EPUB)
- Summary:
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An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works - and really doesn't. As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an elementary school teacher - an ambitious goal, given her family's modest means. Early marriage and motherhood seemed to put even that dream out of reach, but fifteen years later she was a distinguished law professor with a deep understanding of why people go bankrupt. Then came the phone call that changed her life: could she come to Washington DC to help advise Congress on rewriting the bankruptcy laws? Thus began an impolite education into the bare-knuckled, often dysfunctional ways of Washington. She fought for better bankruptcy laws for ten years, and lost. She tried to hold the federal government accountable during the financial crisis, but became a target of the big banks. She came up with the idea for a new agency designed to protect consumers from predatory bankers, and was denied the opportunity to run it. Finally, at the age of 62, she decided to run for elective office and won the most competitive - and watched - Senate race in the country. In this passionate, funny, rabble-rousing book, Warren shows why she has chosen to fight tooth and nail for the middle class - and why she has become a hero to all those who believe that America's government can and must do better for working families. PRAISE FOR ELIZABETH WARREN 'Revealing ... Warren's book describes the troubling patterns and practices of high-level Washington.' The New York Times 'A revealing account of Warren's rise to prominence ... [Warren's] arguments demand to be taken seriously ... As a politician and activist, Warren's great strength is that she retains the outsider's perspective, and the outsider's sense of moral outrage, which runs throughout A Fighting Chance ... She's an indomitable battler for the underdog, and she doesn't take no for an answer.' The New York Review of Books.
- Full contents:
- Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Prologue: A Fighting Chance; Chapter 1: Choosing Battles; Chapter 2: The Bankruptcy Wars; Chapter 3: Bailing Out the Wrong People; Chapter 4: What 1 Million a Day Can Buy; Chapter 5: An Agency for the People; Chapter 6: The Battle for the Senate; Epilogue: Fighting Again ... and Again; Photographs; Notes; Acknowledgments.
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- Subject:
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- Warren, Elizabeth
- United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography
- United States. Congress. Senate
- Legislators -- United States -- Biography
- Women legislators -- United States -- Biography
- United States -- Congress -- Senate -- Biography
- United States. -- Congress. -- Senate -- Biography
- Autobiography: historical, political & military
- Biography & Autobiography - General
- Biography & Autobiography - Political
- Legislators
- Memoirs
- Political Science - General
- Political Science / American Government / General
- Politics & government
- Politics and government
- USA
- Usa
- Women legislators
- United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-
- United States
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Scribe
- Copyright:
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 2014
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