Anyone else pre-order Senator Warren's book yet?

[MannyGoldstein]

(Yes, who's not running and has sworn allegiance to Hillary, yes, we know)

Ordered mine today, am looking forward to reading the thing when it comes out in a week. Also looking forward to the alternative interpretations of her prose, on DU and elsewhere, LOL.

[PoliticAverse]

1. A peek...

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2014/04/16/elizabeth-warren-memoir-fighting-chance-recounts-her-washington-battles-over-financial-regulation/1Yetkv8VaWeaUomW8WuU9M/story.html

and

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/04/17/everything-you-need-to-know-from-elizabeth-warrens-new-book/

[MannyGoldstein]

2. That's great, thanks.

Looking forward to it!

[bigwillq]

3. No

And I don't plan to.

[ProSense]

4. Here,

preview:

Warren's Book Portrays Tense Meeting With Obama Over CFPB Nod (updated)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024830817

[ProSense]

5. Here's another preview

Warren's New Book Whitewashes Some Awkward Hillary History

Let Us Now Conclude That Warren Isn't Running for President

BY NOAM SCHEIBER

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More to the point, as Henrik Hertzberg pointed out at the time, Warren could say she wasn’t running, and even mean it. But she couldn’t possibly know it. A year or two is a ton of time in politics, and these decisions are often influenced by events that a potential candidate can neither anticipate nor control. Recall that Barack Obama emphatically told Tim Russert that he “will not” run for president or vice president in 2008...Having said all that, today is the first time I’m actually starting to doubt my own logic. The occasion is Warren’s forthcoming book, A Fighting Chance, a copy of which I just received. The key passage describes the events that unfolded in Congress after Warren served on a commission that opposed the stricter bankruptcy laws the banking industry had aggressively pushed in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Here’s how Warren describes them in her new book:

The commission report had been delivered in October 1997, and for the next three years we fought off the industry as best we could. But in 2000, we were running out of ways to counter the relentless campaign. The industry-supported bankruptcy bill passed the House and Senate by sizable margins. Fortunately, one last warrior held out against the banks and the credit card companies: President Clinton. In 1998, I had met with First Lady Hillary Clinton to discuss the proposed bankruptcy legislation, and after our meeting she had declared that she would fight on behalf of working families, against “that awful bill.” Now the president was under enormous pressure from the banks to sign the bill, but in the last days of his presidency, urged on by his wife, President Clinton stood strong with struggling families. With no public fanfare, he vetoed the industry’s bill.

Suffice it to say, this account casts both Clintons in a very flattering light. It’s heartening to any progressive who might have mixed feelings about supporting Hillary in 2016.

Unfortunately, it’s only half the story. Warren told the fuller version in her previous book, The Two Income Trap. Here’s the relevant passage:

In the spring of 2001, the bankruptcy bill was reintroduced in the Senate, essentially unchanged from the version President Clinton had vetoed the previous year. This time freshman Senator Hillary Clinton voted in favor of the bill. Had the bill been transformed to get rid of all those awful provisions that had so concerned First Lady Hillary Clinton? The bill was essentially the same, but Hillary Rodham Clinton was not. As First Lady, Mrs. Clinton had been persuaded that the bill was bad for families, and she was willing to fight for her beliefs. Her husband was a lame duck at the time he vetoed the bill; he could afford to forgo future campaign contributions. As New York’s newest senator, however, it seems that Hillary Clinton could not afford such a principled position. Campaigns cost money, and that money wasn’t coming from families in financial trouble. Senator Clinton received $140,000 in campaign contributions from banking industry executives in a single year, making her one of the top two recipients in the Senate. Big banks were now part of Senator Clinton’s constituency. She wanted their support, and they wanted hers—including a vote in favor of “that awful bill.”

Not quite so flattering, is it? (Hillary later backed off her support of the 2001 bill under pressure from Obama during the 2008 primary campaign.)

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http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117409/warrens-new-book-whitewashes-hillary-history

[DirkGently]

6. I'm interested in anything she has to say. n/t