Sen. Elizabeth Warren plans book on middle class

Elizabeth Warren / CBS News

NEW YORK U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, already an experienced author, has a lot more to write about.

The Massachusetts Democrat is working on a book she plans to call "Rigged." During a brief telephone interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, she said "Rigged" will be a "firsthand" account of how she has fought for the middle class. She said it will cover her time chairing a Congressional oversight panel on the financial crisis, helping to set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and her successful senate campaign last year.

"The title refers to how the economic system is too often rigged against families that work hard and play by the rules. The story is national, but it's also personal. These are issues close to my heart," said Warren, a favorite among liberals and a favorite target for conservatives, who opposed her appointment to head the consumer bureau. She instead ran for the U.S. Senate, defeating incumbent Sen. Scott Brown.

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Warren's nine previous books include "All Your Worth" and "The Two-Income Trap," both co-written with her daughter, Amelia Tyagi.

Warren expects to meet with publishers within the next several weeks and hopes the book will be available next year. She will be represented by Washington attorney Robert Barnett, whose other clients have included two previous senators from Massachusetts, Brown and the late Edward M. Kennedy.

Any deal for "Rigged" is subject to approval by the Senate's ethics committee, and Warren said she will work on the book in her spare time. She will likely have some help, but does not plan to use a "traditional collaborator."

"I'll wait until we get a publisher" to see what kind of assistance will be needed, Warren said.

[GOP-R--Con-Men]

You can easily spot the racist by all the noise they make resenting people who benefit ever so slightly from their minority status. What a bunch of loudmouth pigs! Shut the hell up!

[wfw3536]

Oh, this is the type of comment I would expect from a Dem or Lib, your hate is showing.

[kengaard]

So far, Elizabeth Warren seems to have acted in the public interest, which is more than can be said of many (most?) members of congress. Scott Brown's claims appear to be greatly exaggerated.

[libbiesRliers]

Warren is a complete fraud. Period.

Warren should write a book named "Rooked" - on how she willfully deceived the Cambridge Harvard community and garnered "minority status" for herself by LYING about being of Native American descent.

The fact that she was elected is testimony to the sad and terribly deprived intellectual state and status of the Massachusetts electorate.

[iam4honesty]

Without logic or reasoning you and your kind attack anyone who does not have an 'R' next to their name... "minority status"... is that the best you got, Runt?

[wfw3536]

Maybe she should do a book on the American Indian, and finally admit how she used the system claiming she was a Native American. She really should apologize to the Native Americans that she took benefit from because of her claim to be Native American. When will we see her college records to see what she claimed?

[libbiesRliers]

Here here. Warren should be audited and and she should pay repatriation back to federal and state government for any student grants or research grants awarded based on her LIE of being of Native American descent.

[GOP-R--Con-Men]

Hey Scott Brown,

Your bogus attacks on Senator Warren's heritage didn't help you in the 2012 election and using two alias' to rail against her won't help you here, you racist.

[rzarc2]

Senator Warren, YOU are a True American. Keep up the good fight we are behind you from both sides of the isle!

[libbiesRliers]

You are either willfully ignorant, or gleefully deceitful if you support this fraud.