--- product_id: 854034 title: "A Fighting Chance" price: "92 zł" currency: PLN in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.pl/products/854034-a-fighting-chance store_origin: PL region: Poland --- # A Fighting Chance **Price:** 92 zł **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** A Fighting Chance - **How much does it cost?** 92 zł with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pl](https://www.desertcart.pl/products/854034-a-fighting-chance) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works―and really doesn't―in A Fighting Chance As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an elementary 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 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 competitive―and watched―Senate race in the country. In this passionate, funny, rabble-rousing book, Warren shows why she has chosen to fight 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 for working families. Review: Extraordinary Memoir From a Transformative Political Leader - Let’s get one point out right at the top: Elizabeth Warren is the best thing to happen to American politics in decades. She’s not only a sharp and indefatigable warrior for American middle class families, but she’s also a forceful, persistent and effective critic of excessive financial deregulation and big business welfare. In addition to her other winning attributes, Elizabeth Warren is also a clear, honest and deeply entertaining writer and her new memoir “A Fighting Chance” is about as good as political memoirs come. On one level, “A Fighting Chance” is a reflection on Warren’s life: her upbringing in Oklahoma in a working class family, her education and legal training, her decades as an advocate for bankruptcy law reform, her battles both inside and outside the Obama Administration to stand up her Consumer Financial Protection Agency, and her run for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts against a popular incumbent. On another level, Warren’s memoir is a cri de coeur arguing that the support structures and institutions that enabled Warren to succeed have been washed away by decades of wrongheaded policy choices, selfish economic priorities, and an aggressive lack of care for future generations. In the final estimation, Elizabeth Warren accomplishes in her memoir the same thing she accomplishes so often in real life: she envisions and argues for a better, more equitable America that supports all of its families, rather than a select few. Once the reader finishes “A Fighting Chance,” it’s easy to understand what the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone meant when he said that he could use ten more progressives in the Senate -- "or one Elizabeth Warren." Before reading her memoir, I believed that Elizabeth Warren is the last, best hope our country has; after reading her memoir, I'm certain that she is. Review: Superb in so many ways. - By way of full disclosure: I have known Elizabeth for thirty-three years, consider her a friend, and admire her tremendously. EW can be summed up very simply: What you see is exactly what you get. As for the book... Because I know her and have followed her short (so far) political career very closely, I assumed that the book would tell me nothing new, that it would be an agglomeration of speeches she has given. I bought it anyway, mostly out of loyalty, and BOY WAS I WRONG! (My apologies, Elizabeth, for 'misunderestimating' you. Never again.) Yes, the narrative covers, among many other things, recent events which I had followed - but from Warren's perspective, which was new to me. This book is very refreshing. Warren's writing is itself refreshing, to the point that the reader is oft-times unaware of it, with eyes only for the vivid images it creates. It is also refreshing to read a political memoir in which the author is neither settling scores nor flattering the powerful. The story Warren tells is of an enormously successful woman who rose to the very top of the law teaching world from humble beginnings and middles - Rutgers is hardly an elite law school. At Harvard and Yale law schools in particular, most of the faculty went to one of the other. Elizabeth did not, and her leap to Harvard was based, like all such moves, entirely on her publications. As everyone knows, when she ran for the Senate, she won against a strong candidate/incumbent, and when Obama nominated John Kerry as Secretary of State soon thereafter, she became the Senior Senator for Massachussets. Why do I recount all this? Because through all of it, as told in this book, runs a strong thread of family. Even as her life was turned upside down by her ascension to the Senate ( I know from experience that being a tenured law professor is vastly preferable to working for a living. EW had to adjust from the languid life of law at Harvard, to the frenetics of Capitol Hill, but whether in body or in spirit, she always takes her family along. Her ever-presentness for her family is woven through this book. It is not something the author trumpets or shows off. It is simply one aspect of her life which comes through strongly in this delightful, forthright, and unputdownable memoir. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,269,858 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #80 in U.S.Congresses, Senates & Legislative #556 in Social Activist Biographies #1,658 in Political Leader Biographies | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 2,875 Reviews | ## Images ![A Fighting Chance - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81HgXTL7cDL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Extraordinary Memoir From a Transformative Political Leader *by L***M on April 22, 2014* Let’s get one point out right at the top: Elizabeth Warren is the best thing to happen to American politics in decades. She’s not only a sharp and indefatigable warrior for American middle class families, but she’s also a forceful, persistent and effective critic of excessive financial deregulation and big business welfare. In addition to her other winning attributes, Elizabeth Warren is also a clear, honest and deeply entertaining writer and her new memoir “A Fighting Chance” is about as good as political memoirs come. On one level, “A Fighting Chance” is a reflection on Warren’s life: her upbringing in Oklahoma in a working class family, her education and legal training, her decades as an advocate for bankruptcy law reform, her battles both inside and outside the Obama Administration to stand up her Consumer Financial Protection Agency, and her run for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts against a popular incumbent. On another level, Warren’s memoir is a cri de coeur arguing that the support structures and institutions that enabled Warren to succeed have been washed away by decades of wrongheaded policy choices, selfish economic priorities, and an aggressive lack of care for future generations. In the final estimation, Elizabeth Warren accomplishes in her memoir the same thing she accomplishes so often in real life: she envisions and argues for a better, more equitable America that supports all of its families, rather than a select few. Once the reader finishes “A Fighting Chance,” it’s easy to understand what the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone meant when he said that he could use ten more progressives in the Senate -- "or one Elizabeth Warren." Before reading her memoir, I believed that Elizabeth Warren is the last, best hope our country has; after reading her memoir, I'm certain that she is. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Superb in so many ways. *by 3***Y on June 6, 2014* By way of full disclosure: I have known Elizabeth for thirty-three years, consider her a friend, and admire her tremendously. EW can be summed up very simply: What you see is exactly what you get. As for the book... Because I know her and have followed her short (so far) political career very closely, I assumed that the book would tell me nothing new, that it would be an agglomeration of speeches she has given. I bought it anyway, mostly out of loyalty, and BOY WAS I WRONG! (My apologies, Elizabeth, for 'misunderestimating' you. Never again.) Yes, the narrative covers, among many other things, recent events which I had followed - but from Warren's perspective, which was new to me. This book is very refreshing. Warren's writing is itself refreshing, to the point that the reader is oft-times unaware of it, with eyes only for the vivid images it creates. It is also refreshing to read a political memoir in which the author is neither settling scores nor flattering the powerful. The story Warren tells is of an enormously successful woman who rose to the very top of the law teaching world from humble beginnings and middles - Rutgers is hardly an elite law school. At Harvard and Yale law schools in particular, most of the faculty went to one of the other. Elizabeth did not, and her leap to Harvard was based, like all such moves, entirely on her publications. As everyone knows, when she ran for the Senate, she won against a strong candidate/incumbent, and when Obama nominated John Kerry as Secretary of State soon thereafter, she became the Senior Senator for Massachussets. Why do I recount all this? Because through all of it, as told in this book, runs a strong thread of family. Even as her life was turned upside down by her ascension to the Senate ( I know from experience that being a tenured law professor is vastly preferable to working for a living. EW had to adjust from the languid life of law at Harvard, to the frenetics of Capitol Hill, but whether in body or in spirit, she always takes her family along. Her ever-presentness for her family is woven through this book. It is not something the author trumpets or shows off. It is simply one aspect of her life which comes through strongly in this delightful, forthright, and unputdownable memoir. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ good research and notes good timeline of a remarkable person *by 1***F on March 28, 2018* A good book with lots of details about her life and ambition. Basically a remarkable person. Lots of good notes and discussion and tons of research and background cited completely publisher year author journal name volume. Just for that I really like this and she does seem to have the credentials to be writing this. I dont agree with a lot of the underlying philosophy, she really has this trite black and white world, and does seem to think that legislation can fix things. While well intentioned this kind of egotistical thinking can be very harmful, i mean "big banks"? Who does she think will give the money to local banks to make quarter mil home mortgage loans? Because gammy put her quilts on ebay and deposited $75 last week? Get real. Its hard to make rules that work and the overall divisiveness against any one that somehow isnt up to her standard of 'family' or gets more money by taking huge risks or taking responsibility for peoples lives as ceo is just unacceptable to me. How about economic prosperity and reasonable interest rates for *americans*. But no, only people with picket fences dogs and babies. And in the end 99 percent of the legislation against say bankruptcy abuse ends up on the cutting room floor because, you guessed it, an abortion group declared bankruptcy and so suddenly,politically, strict bankruptcy law wasnt so important anymore. Terrible. Good book to find that story out though. 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