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Elizabeth Warren, A FIGHTING CHANCE (2014)
By: agate Date: October 20, 2015, 7:57 pm
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Elizabeth Warren, A FIGHTING CHANCE (2014)
[quote]For decades Elizabeth Warren has been fighting for the
interests of ordinary Americans, the people who are often
hardest hit by the predatory practices of banks and large
corporations. In this book she tells her life story, with an
emphasis on how she developed her zeal for defending and
insuring the rights of consumers.
It hasn't always been easy for her. Obstructionist tactics have
been used against her by politicians and lobbyists representing
the entrenched interests of the powerful banking industry. She
doesn't whine about having been victimized repeatedly but what
comes through in her book is that changing or designing
legislation and organizing teams of people who will support and
promote it are jobs that take patience and perseverance--and
toughness.
There was a time when she was attacked for having falsely
claimed Native American ancestry in order to gain an advantage
academically. Though she doesn't come up with definitive proof
of her Native American background, she makes a very persuasive
case for it--and unequivocally states that she never used it for
her own advancement.
While giving details about her own life and career, the book
also provides some excellent discussion of the appallingly
powerful banking industry--the banks that have been "too big too
fail" have also been "too big to jail," as she puts it.
Moreover, this recorded book was narrated by the author herself.
She is one very impressive person. She blows her own horn
sometimes in this book, but she's one of the few people on the
contemporary scene who probably ought to be blowing her own horn
even louder. More power to her.
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