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Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World | Kirsten Gillibrand

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A good memoir & call to action for women. Published in 2014 however, it didn‘t really help me with my #ReadTheCandadites goals. The parts about her advocacy on things like military sexual assaults cases were very interesting, but I was already familiar with her work in those areas. I did learn about her personal balance of family, young children, and political life, plus discovered she‘s both very perky and can curse a blue streak when necessary.

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Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World | Kirsten Gillibrand

Good Advice: keep calling, keep emailing, keep speaking up!

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BarbaraTheBibliophage I‘m going to try to get to this one soon. But going to Klobuchar next, per the 2020 book club. 5y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @BarbaraTheBibliophage Let me know how you like it. This one was next for me just because I had it from the library and it‘s due back soon. 🤪 5y

BarbaraTheBibliophage I will! I have the Gillibrand on my Kindle, so there‘s no rush. I wish more of them were available at my library. 5y

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa @BarbaraTheBibliophage Surprising Gillibrand was one of the few my library had besides Biden and Bernie, and I‘m not racing to read either of them, I was much more interested in reading about the people I knew less about. Luckily I got Harris‘s from the Philly Free Library and Buttigieg‘s from Hoopla I think 🤔 5y

BarbaraTheBibliophage I found Harris on Scribd and Buttigieg on Hoopla. You‘d think they‘d make more effort to be on these services. And I agree about not needing to read more Biden. I read Promise Me, Dad and really liked it. That‘s enough. And I thought the Sanders book I read was just shy of an enthusiastic pick. 5y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @BarbaraTheBibliophage Good to know, for me it‘s just that I feel like I have a pretty good handle on both of them already and what they stand for, so since I doubt I can read all 24 25ish candidates, I‘m going to try and concentrate on some I‘m less familiar with. 5y

BarbaraTheBibliophage Sounds like a good plan! I‘ll get as many in as I can, but I‘m expecting some to start dropping out also. 5y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @BarbaraTheBibliophage Some need too 😂. 5y

BarbaraTheBibliophage True! 5y

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A Fighting Chance | Elizabeth Warren

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So far my favorite of #ReadTheCandadites. It covers her early life, marriage, teaching, through when Washington came to her for expertise during the financial meltdown. It follows her life as she began to be more public about fighting for A Fighting Chance for everyone up until her run for Senate. It‘s a great candidate read, but also a great read for an insight into Washington from an outsider POV and into the forces that caused the meltdown.

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa And #NFBuddyRead 5y

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A Fighting Chance | Elizabeth Warren

“So I figured: Too bad. Too damn bad. If a bunch of senators were going to pick the banks over families, then the American public had a right to know. And if we didn‘t win, we could at least make one hell of a stink.”

Funny to read that now, knowing where she is today.

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