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Elizabeth Ann Warren (née Herring; born June 22, 1949) is an American politician and former law professor who is the senior United States senator from Massachusetts, serving since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party and regarded as a progressive, Warren has focused on consumer protection, equitable economic opportunity, and the social safety net while in the Senate. Warren was a candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, ultimately finishing third. Born and raised in Oklahoma, Warren is a graduate of the University of Houston and Rutgers Law School and has taught law at several universities, including the University of Houston, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University. She was one of the most influential professors in commercial and bankruptcy law before beginning her political career. Warren has written 12 books and more than 100 articles.Warren's first foray into public policy began in 1995, when she worked to oppose what eventually became a 2005 act restricting bankruptcy access for individuals. During the late 2000s, her national profile grew after her forceful public stances in favor of more stringent banking regulations after the financial crisis of 2007–2008. She served as chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and proposed and established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, for which she served as the first special advisor under President Barack Obama.In 2012, Warren defeated incumbent Republican Scott Brown and became the first female U.S. senator from Massachusetts. She won re-election by a wide margin in 2018, defeating Republican nominee Geoff Diehl. On February 9, 2019, Warren announced her candidacy in the 2020 United States presidential election. She was briefly considered the front-runner for the Democratic nomination in late 2019, but support for her campaign dwindled. She withdrew from the race on March 5, 2020, after Super Tuesday. Early life and education Warren was born Elizabeth Ann Herring in Oklahoma City on June 22, 1949. She is the fourth child of Pauline Louise (née Reed, 1912–1995), a homemaker, and Donald Jones Herring (1911–1997), a U.S. Army flight instructor during World War II, both of whom were members of the evangelical branch of the Protestant Methodist Church. Warren has described her early family life as teetering "on the ragged edge of the middle class" and "kind of hanging on at the edges by our fingernails." She and her three older brothers were raised Methodist.Warren lived in Norman, Oklahoma, until she was 11 years old, when her family moved back to Oklahoma City. When she was 12, her father, then a salesman at Montgomery Ward, had a heart attack, which led to many medical bills as well as a pay cut because he could not do his previous work. After leaving his sales job, he worked as a maintenance man for an apartment building. Eventually, the family's car was repossessed because they failed to make loan payments. To help the family finances, her mother found work in the catalog-order department at Sears. When she was 13, Warren started waiting tables at her aunt's restaurant.Warren became a star member of the debate team at Northwest Classen High School and won the state high school debating championship. She also won a debate scholarship to George Washington University (GWU) at the age of 16. She initially aspired to be a teacher, but left GWU after two years in 1968 to marry James Robert "Jim" Warren, whom she had met in high school.Warren and her husband moved to Houston, where he was employed by IBM. She enrolled in the University of Houston and graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science degree in speech pathology and audiology.The Warrens moved to New Jersey when Jim received a job transfer. She soon became pregnant and decided to stay at home to care for their daughter, Amelia. After Amelia turned two, Warren enrolled at Rutgers Law School. She received her Juris Doctor in 1976 and passed the bar examination shortly thereafter. Shortly before graduating, Warren became pregnant with their second child, Alexander. Career In 1970, after obtaining a degree in speech pathology and audiology, but before enrolling in law school, Warren taught children with disabilities for a year in a public school. During law school, she worked as a summer associate at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. After receiving her Juris Doctor and passing the bar examination, Warren offered legal services from home, writing wills and doing real estate closings.In the late 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Warren taught law at several American universities while researching issues related to bankruptcy and middle-class personal finance. She became involved with public work in bankruptcy regulation and consumer protection in the mid-1990s. Academic Warren began her career in academia as a lecturer at Rutgers University, Newark School of Law (1977–1978). She then moved to the University of Houston Law Center (1978–1983), where she became an associate dean in 1980 and obtained tenure in 1981. She taught at the University of Texas School of Law as visiting associate professor in 1981 and returned as a full professor two years later (staying from 1983 to 1987). She was a research associate at the Population Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin from 1983 to 1987 and was also a visiting professor at the University of Michigan in 1985. During this period, Warren also taught Sunday school. Warren's earliest academic work was heavily influenced by the law and economics movement, which aimed to apply neoclassical economic theory to the study of law with an emphasis on economic efficiency. One of her articles, published in 1980 in the Notre Dame Law Review, argued that public utilities were over-regulated and that automatic utility rate increases should be instituted. But Warren soon became a proponent of on-the-ground research into how people respond to laws. Her work analyzing court records and interviewing judges, lawyers, and debtors, established her as a rising star in the field of bankruptcy law. According to Warren and economists who follow her work, one of her key insights was that rising bankruptcy rates were caused not by profligate consumer spending but by middle-class families' attempts to buy homes in good school districts. Warren worked in this field alongside colleagues Teresa A. Sullivan and Jay Westbrook, and the trio published their research in the book As We Forgive Our Debtors in 1989. Warren later recalled that she had begun her research believing that most people filing for bankruptcy were either working the system or had been irresponsible in incurring debts, but that she concluded that such abuse was in fact rare and that the legal framework for bankruptcy was poorly designed, describing the way the research challenged her fundamental beliefs as "worse than disillusionment" and "like being shocked at a de.... Discover the Elizabeth Warren popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Elizabeth Warren books.
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Case Against the New Censorship
Alan DershowitzIn The Case Against the New Censorship: Protecting Free Speech from Big Tech, Progressives, and Universities, Alan DershowitzNew York Times bestselling author and one of America’s...
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The Two-Income Trap
Elizabeth Warren & Amelia Warren TyagiFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Senator Elizabeth Warren and consultant Amelia Warren Tyagi, the classic book about America's middle class and why economic security rema...
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Why We Need the Electoral College
Tara RossIs the Electoral College antidemocratic?Some would say yes. After all, the presidential candidate with the most popular votes has nevertheless lost the election at least three time...
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Our Dogs, Ourselves
Alexandra HorowitzFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Inside of a Dog and The Year of the Puppy, an eyeopening, informative, “entertaining, and enlightening” (BookPage) celebration of t...
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Being a Dog
Alexandra HorowitzFrom the #1 bestselling author of Inside of a Dog and The Year of the Puppy“an incredible journey into the olfactory world of man’s best friend” (O, The Oprah Magazine), Alexandra ...
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The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations
Robert AndrewsThe New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations contains over 8,000 quotations from 1914 to the present. As much a companion to the modern age as it is an entertaining and useful ...
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Guns and Control
Guy SmithA Nonpartisan guide that arms both sides of the gun control debate. The slogan of the Gun Facts Project is “We are neither progun nor antigun. We are promath and antiBS.” From...
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The Case Against Impeaching Trump
Alan Dershowitz"A brilliant lawyer...A new and very important book. I would encourage all people...to read!"President Donald J. Trump“Absolutely amazing…. If you care about justice...read this bo...
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This Fight Is Our Fight
Elizabeth Warren#1 New York Times bestsellerThe fiery U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and bestselling author offers a passionate, inspiring book about why our middle class is under siege and how...
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Good and Mad
Rebecca TraisterUpdated with a new introductionJournalist Rebecca Traister’s New York Times bestselling exploration of the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a ...
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Body Language for Women
Donna Van Natten & Robin DreekeBodies talk. Do you know how to listen? A quick glance, a twist of the hips, or a biting of the lower lip can speak volumes about what someone is thinking or feeling. The powerful...
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The Life of Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus & Edward Everett HaleThis eBook edition of "The Life of Christopher Columbus" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. To these days, the...
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Elizabeth Warren
Susan WoodThis picturebook biography of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is “a strong, upbeat introduction to a bold figure,” a feminist icon known for perseverance. Elizabeth Warren: Neverthel...
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Richard Burton
Michael MunnThe whirlwind life of one of old Hollywood’s biggest stars.From the depths of a small mining village in Wales to a star of Hollywood’s silver screen, Richard Burton broke every rul...
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Goliath
Matt Stoller“Every thinking American must read” (The Washington Book Review) this startling and “insightful” (The New York Times) look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism has t...
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Elizabeth Warren
Dr. Ruth CarrElizabeth WarrenUnderstanding the Life and Teachings of Elizabeth Warren: Lawyer, Social Activist, Politician, and Defender of the American Middle ClassBy Dr. Ruth CarrA resident o...
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Take Up Space
The Editors of New York Magazine & Lisa MillerA stunning fourcolor biography of Congresswoman Alexandria OcasioCortez in the bestselling tradition of Notorious RBG and Pelosi that explores her explosive rise and impact on the ...
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I Have Something to Tell You
Chasten ButtigiegINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNOW WITH A NEW PREFACE A moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of Pete Buttigieg about growing up gay in his small Midwest...
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Rage Becomes Her
Soraya ChemalyA BEST BOOK OF 2018 SELECTION NPR The Washington Post Book Riot Autostraddle Psychology Today A BEST FEMINIST BOOK SELECTION Refinery 29, Book Riot, Autostraddle, BITCH Rage Be...
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A Fighting Chance
Elizabeth WarrenA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the twodecade journey that taught her how Washington really worksand really doesn'tin A Fighting...
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Grace Goes to Washington
Kelly DiPucchio & LeUyen PhamIn this followup to the New York Times bestseller Grace for President, awardwinning duo Kelly DiPucchio and LeUyen Pham present a fun, kidfriendly introduction to the branches of A...
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Grace for President
Kelly DiPucchio & LeUyen PhamA fresh, fun, and "thoughtprovoking" New York Times bestseller about the American electoral college and why every vote counts from bestselling and awardwinning duo Kelly DiPucchio ...
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Cancel Culture
Alan DershowitzIn Cancel Culture, Alan DershowitzNew York Times bestselling author and one of America’s most respected legal scholarsmakes an argument for free speech, due process, and restraint ...
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Any Given Tuesday
Lis SmithNew York Times BestsellerAn irreverent look behind the scenes of American politics from one of the most soughtafter operatives in the Democratic PartyLis Smith isn’t your aver...
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Comeback Careers
Mika Brzezinski & Ginny BrzezinskiSTRONG, WISER, BETTERAn Essential Guide for Reentering, Reinventing, or Rebooting Your Career at Any Age So many women hit their 40s or 50s and realize: it's time for a career cha...
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Elizabeth Warren
Dani GabrielElizabeth Warren was the first woman senator elected in Massachusetts in 2013. But before she took that role, she was a respected professor of law. She has no fear of speaking up w...
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The Impeachment Report
U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence & Alan DershowitzWith an Introduction by Acclaimed Legal Scholar and New York Times Bestselling author Alan Dershowitz, The Official Impeachment Inquiry Report on The Results of The TrumpUkraine In...
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Arguing with Socialists
Glenn BeckA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset arms you to the teeth with information necessary to debunk the socialist arguments that have onc...
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Fight Like Hell
Kim KellyA 2022 New Yorker Best Book of the Year A 2022 Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A 2022 BuzzFeed Book You’ll Love A 2022 LitHub Favorite Book of the Year“Kelly unearths the ...
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Behind the Shoulder Pads
Joan Collins“I’ve had many amazing adventures in my life. Some stories, though, I have only ever shared with my friends.… Until now!”Dame Joan Collins has always believed that one should retai...
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My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism
Titania McGrath'Fabulously smart and entertaining . . . If virtuesignalling wokery drives you as nuts as it drives me, you will love it' Piers Morgan'Required reading for anyone needing an antido...
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Uprising
Margaret Peterson HaddixThe fire at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant workers, is one of the worst disasters since the beginning of the Industrial...
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The Great Democracy
Ganesh SitaramanA leading progressive intellectual offers an "illuminating" agenda for how real democracy can triumph in America and beyond (Ari Berman, New York Times).Since the New Deal in the 1...
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Elizabeth Warren
Antonia FelixA breakthrough Elizabeth Warren biography by bestselling author Antonia Felix.Elizabeth Warren's rise as one of America's most powerful women is a stirring lesson in persistence. F...
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All Your Worth
Elizabeth WarrenThis personal finance guide from Dr. Phil’s financial guru, Elizabeth Warren, offers a new way of thinking about and managing your money that will allow you lifelong emotional peac...
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Kamala Harris
Nikki GrimesDiscover the incredible story of a young daughter of immigrants who would grow up to be the first woman, first Black person, and first South Asian American ever elected Vice Presid...
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The Rebels
Joshua GreenFrom the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Devil’s Bargain comes the revelatory inside story of the uprising within the Democratic Party, of the economic populists led by ...