num_pages: 352
description:  The fiery U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and bestselling author offers a passionate inspiring book about why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the fight to save itSenator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of Americas middle class and by the time the people of Massachusetts elected her in 2012 she had become one of the countrys leading progressive voices. Now at a perilous moment for our nation she has written a book that is at once an illuminating account of how we built the strongest middle class in history a scathing indictment of those who have spent the past thirty-five years undermining working families and a rousing call to action. Warren grew up in Oklahoma and shes never forgotten how difficult it was for her mother and father to hold on at the ragged edge of the middle class. An educational system that offered opportunities for all made it possible for her to achieve her dream of going to college becoming a teacher and later attending law school. But now for many these kinds of opportunities are gone and a government that once looked out for working families is instead captive to the rich and powerful. Seventy-five years ago President Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal ushered in an age of widespread prosperity; in the 1980s President Ronald Reagan reversed course and sold the country on the disastrous fiction called trickle-down economics. Now with the election of Donald Trumpa con artist who promised to drain the swamp of special interests and then surrounded himself with billionaires and lobbyiststhe middle class is being pushed ever closer to collapse.Written in the candid high-spirited voice that is Warrens trademark This Fight Is Our Fight tells eye-opening stories about her battles in the Senate and vividly describes the experiences of hard-working Americans who have too often been given the short end of the stick. Elizabeth Warren has had enough of phony promises and a government that no longer serves its peopleshe wont sit down she wont be silenced and she will fight back.
language: English
title: This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
publisher: Metropolitan Books