To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Ī NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really worksand really doesn'tin A Fighting Chance As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an elementary school teacheran ambitious goal, given her family's modest means. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. In this passionate, funny, rabble-rousing book, Warren shows why she fights 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.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. Finally, at 62, she decided to run for the Senate, and won. She tried to protect consumers from predatory bankers, but was thwarted. She tried to hold the federal government accountable during the financial crisis, but became a target of the big banks. She fought for better bankruptcy laws for ten years, and lost. So began an unsentimental education in the bare-knuckled ways of Washington. Then came the phone call that changed her life: could she come to Washington to help Congress rewrite the bankruptcy laws? Early motherhood seemed to put that dream out of reach, but fifteen years later she was a distinguished law professor with a deep understanding of why people go bankrupt. An unlikely political star tells us how Washington really works - and really doesn’t.Īs a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and become a teacher.

A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren