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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.

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A union leader throughout his 45-year career, Rich Michalski rose from President of his 2,100-member local lodge to VP of International Headquarters for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union (IAM). His years as Political Director saw him fighting the biggest issues of our times from asbestos to NAFTA to pensions. Rich capped his career by negotiating the largest labor deal in the history of labor. He lives with his wife Nancy in Los Angeles. They have four children and seven grandchildren.

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