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Bezig met laden... A fighting chance (origineel 2014; editie 2014)door Elizabeth Warren
Informatie over het werkA Fighting Chance door Elizabeth Warren (2014)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. In the interest of saving time (mine), I'll simply say that I basically agree with the May 8, 2014 comments of Goodreads reviewer Vicar Sayeedi on this book. He liked the book, recommends it to all, and praises Elizabeth Warren for being a positive force in our Country, for being an advocate for the average American, for protecting consumers, for being a creative thinker, and for becoming a politician who can work with others to get things accomplished. This book includes the major events in Warren's life and how those events affected her actions and her world view. Her writing is simple and straight-forward but there were times that I definitely felt like there were things she was not sharing. Not that she has to share those things but it just felt like a pencil outline of her life instead of a full vibrant painting. The policy work was pretty fascinating. She is very progressive and liberal and even if the reader is not (although I am so this is an assumption), it's hard not to just be enraged at big banks and politicians (often on both sides) that protect them. So often people are blamed for their poverty or their bankruptcy but the system is working against them and specifically and intentionally being sneaky about it. As a high school teacher even our education is failing people: I took calculus but never had a real discussion about financial literacy. If she does not win the Dem nomination, I sure hope she's put in charge of creating more policy to protect people financially. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Biography & Autobiography.
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HTML: In A Fighting Chance, an unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really worksâ??and really doesn't As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an elementary school teacherâ??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 age 62, she decided to run for elective office and won the most competitiveâ??and watchedâ??Senate race in the country. In this passionate, funny, rabble-rousing audiobook, Warren shows why she has chosen to fight tooth and nail for the middle classâ??and why she has become a hero to all those who believe that America's government can and must do better for working Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Elizabeth Warren like me, never felt she fit in high school, she did not find herself until college. Her second marriage failed, she could not meet the high expectation of her first husband, her second marriage like mine went much better. She asked him for tennis lessons and was terrible but she proposed to him and he said "Yes".
I love that she got so attached the family dogs and deeply grieved their loss. I love her appreciation and respect for people who have had hard financial times, empathized with people scorned by society and genuinely fights for the people! ( )