A Fighting Chance - A 30-minute Summary of Elizabeth Warren's Memoir

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Chapter 1

Warren grew up in a small house in Norman, Oklahoma. Her father was a carpet salesman, but suffered a heart attack when Warren was in her early teens that left him unable to work for a time and caused him to lose his lucrative job.

 

In high school, Warren was told the family did not have enough money to send her to college. Warren won several debate scholarships and was accepted to George Washington University.

 

Two years later she married Jim Warren. Immediately after they married, Warren and her new husband moved to Houston where he was employed by IBM. Warren enrolled at the University of Houston (UH).  Shortly after she graduated, Jim was transferred to New Jersey. Warren got a job as a speech therapist for special-needs children. When she became pregnant, she lost the job. Happy as she was with her daughter, Amelia, she realized she wanted more. She decided to return to school. She applied to Rutger’s Law School. Shortly before graduation, she became pregnant again, making it nearly impossible for her to get a job in a male oriented profession.


A few months later, Jim had the choice of transferring to several different cities. Due to the fact that she liked teaching law, Warren began to look for possible jobs in those cities. One of her choices was Houston. Warren called UH. She was offered a full-time teaching job at the UH Law Center.


Warren struggled as a working mother. When pushed to a breaking point, she called her aunt. Bee moved in with them to take care of the children. However, Warren’s husband grew disillusioned with their marriage because he had wanted a traditional wife. They soon divorced. Warren met her second husband, Bruce Mann, while taking an economics seminar for law professors. Not long after their marriage...