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One thing I wanted to do this summer was read about inspiring women in government and law.

Elizabeth Warren has lived an incredible and inspiring life, and I‘m so glad I listened to the audiobook so I could hear her voice reading the words of this book.

Warren is so familiar to me. SO familiar. OKC, Norman, & Wewoka are also my top three Okla towns. I‘m playing catch-up with Litsy, so I‘m not sure what I thought about this book after I read it, but I definitely now understand why Warren feels like home.

I bought this as a gift for my step-mom, and decided to first flip through and read a bit at random to make sure it was worth giving.

Before I knew it, I'd read a full chapter (30+ pages). Then another chapter.

After a couple of hours, I realized I'd read the intro and the last 1/3 of the book! How could I not just go back and read everything in between?? So that's exactly what I did!

A thoughtful look at her career in politics. Persist!

Listen: Senator Elizabeth Warren did not come to mess around!
“For all those super-duper smart economists and fancy think-tank gurus who want to increase productivity in the economy and produce better outcomes for all America, here‘s a little advice: instead of giving companies more tax breaks to replace more workers with more machines, you could figure out how to give more women a better chance to contribute their time and talents.” 👀🔥🤷🏾‍♀️

I was devastated when Elizabeth Warren didn‘t win the Democratic nomination in the last presidential campaign. She was the first candidate ever that I believed in enough to actually make campaign contributions. This book, which is heavily focused on the last 18 months or so, but which also includes deeper background, makes me even sadder that she is not our president. Filled with her passion, plans, and persistence, this was a great listen.

She has a plan for that! Warren presents her revised and updated plans based on her time campaigning, and although she never outright says it, I think it is to get her base to hold the Biden administration accountable to more progressive people in the party. She talks a bit about what he‘s done well (cabinet appointees), but she (and I) still want that wealth tax and other policies. And she hits they highlights of roasting Bloomberg, too! 💜🙌🏻

@BookishMarginalia and I each had a stack of books we had left at the till so that we could continue to peruse unencumbered. When we went to pay my wife says, “I‘m Persist.”

My response, “Does that make me Malice?”

Elizabeth Warren will be having a conversation with Stacey Abrams for the launch of her new book, Persist. I am so excited! (Online event is being sponsored by Politics and Prose in DC).