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Elizabeth Warren. This Fight is Our Fight: The Battle to Save Working People
Copyright
Praise for Elizabeth Warren:
Dedication
Prologue
1. The Disappearing Middle Class
MIDDLE-CLASS AND BROKE
NO MONEY, NO TIME
ANOTHER ONE-TWO PUNCH
EVEN HARDER
YOUNG DREAMS
THE SQUEEZE NEVER STOPS
THE LAST THREADS OF FAITH
2. A Safer Economy
ROCK BOTTOM
PROTECTING THE BANKS FROM SPECULATORS
BREAK ’EM UP: ROUND TWO
TAKING THE FIGHT DIRECTLY TO THE POWERFUL
REGULATION WORKED
THE FORGOTTEN RICH MAN
THE PLAN: TAKE OVER GOVERNMENT
WHEN THE COPS WORK FOR THE CROOKS
WITHOUT COPS, ANOTHER CRASH
FINANCIAL REGULATIONS MATTER
3. Making—and Breaking—the Middle Class
THE AMERICAN DEAL
UNIONS HELPED BUILD AMERICA’S MIDDLE CLASS
GOVERNMENT WORKED FOR MOST AMERICANS
THE SHADOW OF RACE
AN AMERICAN STORY
TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH
MORE BOMBS AND FEWER TEXTBOOKS
POLITICIANS SIDE WITH THE BILLIONAIRES
CHOKING OFF GROWTH
HAVE WE STOPPED INVESTING IN DISCOVERY?
LESS POWER FOR WORKERS
DESTROYING AMERICA’S MIDDLE CLASS
THE TRICKLE-DOWN LIE
4. The Rich and Powerful Tighten Their Grip
THE MONEY GRAB
LOBBYIST HORDES
GOVERNMENT/CORPORATE REVOLVING DOOR
EXECUTIVES RUN IT ALL
SECRET SECRETS
EXPERTS FOR HIRE
THE NOT-SO-NEUTRAL COURTS
BILLIONAIRE WORLD
5. The Moment of Upheaval
NOT RUNNING
THE DANGER
BLAME THEM
ACCOUNTABILITY, THE WELLS FARGO WAY
TURN THE BANKS LOOSE AGAIN
THE DAY AFTER
READY TO FIGHT
TEAM TRUMP
FIGHT BIGOTRY
BUILD OPPORTUNITY
DEMAND DEMOCRACY
THE FIGHT AHEAD
Epilogue
Afterword to the 2018 Edition
NOTES. 1: THE DISAPPEARING MIDDLE CLASS
2: A SAFER ECONOMY
3: MAKING— AND BREAKING— THE MIDDLE CLASS
4: THE RICH AND POWER FUL TIGHTEN THEIR GRIP
5: THE MOMENT OF UPHEAVAL
EPILOGUE
AFTERWORD TO THE 2018 EDITION
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
About the Author
ALSO BY ELIZABETH WARREN
About the Publisher
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‘This Fight Is Our Fight is a smart, tough-minded book … What Democrats need right now is a reason to keep fighting. And that’s something Warren’s muscular, unapologetic book definitely offers. It’s an important contribution’
New York Times
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