A Fighting Chance

As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an elementay 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 distinguisheed law professor with a deep understanding of why people go bankrupt. Then came the phone all that changed her life: could she come to Washington, D.C. to help advise Congress on rewriting the bakruptcy 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. In this passionate, funny rabble-rousing book Elizabeth Warren at last tells her story, of why she has chosen to fight tooth and nail for the middle class.