Sen. Elizabeth Warren has some advice for you: Persist.
That’s the title of her next book, Henry Holt and Company imprint Metropolitan Books announced Wednesday. The publisher says the book will be “a passionate plea for political transformation.”
“Persist is a deeply personal book and a powerful call to action in which Warren lays out plans and policies to create big, structural change,” according to the publisher. “Warren did not even enter the political arena until she was in her early sixties, but she brought with her a lifetime of experience.”
Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012. She sought the Democratic nomination for president this year, but was defeated in the primaries by President-elect Joe Biden.
She has written several books, including A Fighting Chance and This Fight Is Our Fight. The title of her latest one seems to be a reference to a rebuke she received on the Senate floor in 2017 from Sen. Mitch McConnell, who said, “She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.” Warren’s allies quickly adopted “Nevertheless, she persisted” as a motto.
“I wrote Persist because I remain as committed as ever to fighting for an America that works for everyone,” Warren said in a statement. “I’ve written a dozen books, but this one is especially personal: I bring the pieces of who I am to the fight for real change, and I passionately believe that we are in a moment when extraordinary changes are possible.”
Persist will be published on April 20, 2021.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
