Fredric Raines is Associate Professor Emeritus of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis. His experience with public policy includes serving on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisers for 2 and a half years, and a two-year research project with Edward Kalachek for the President’s Commission on Income Maintenance Programs.
It is with great anticipation that we turn to Warren’s autobiographical narrative for clues as to how someone growing up in crimson red Oklahoma, who considered herself a Republican into the 1990s, came to be a boldly progressive Democrat.