In the Fight

Part memoir part historical account In the Fight is a front-row seat to the key political battles and big business treachery that destroyed the once-thriving American middle class. Union leader Rich Michalski takes us from local lodges to the plush inner sanctums of billion-dollar corporations to the hallowed halls of Washington where he fights for American workers alongside - and sometimes against - CEOs senators governors and presidents including Jack Welch Mitch McConnell Jim Doyle Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Michalski''s first-hand account covers everything from the heyday of American manufacturing jobs to its post-NAFTA apocalypse where nationwide poverty and resentment set the stage for the rise of Donald Trump.