Persist

Warren organizes this book around six roles that have shaped her public life and advocacy. She is a mother whose own painful experience showed why child care matters so much. She is a former schoolchild who understood early on what a good, affordable education is worth. She is a planner who sees that tangled problems need comprehensive answers. She is a fighter who learned that power is seldom surrendered voluntarily. She is a learner who thinks, listens, and works to confront racism in America. And she is a woman who has repeatedly shown that women are every bit as capable as men.

Part personal account and part political argument, the book ties Warren's experiences to her policy positions and to her belief that determined people can bring about major change if they are willing to fight for it.

The narrative moves between private memory and public argument, so the reader hears one voice speaking about family, schooling, power, and racism alike.