Book Review: Gloria Allred’s Fight Back and Win

Gloria Allred, a world-famous equal and civil rights lawyer, women’s rights supporter, and television personality, wrote a book that traces her experiences and challenges through instances of injustice. In Fight Back and Win: My Thirty-year Fight Against Injustice-and How You Can Win Your Own Battles, which is both a moving and enlightening memoir, she mentions the lessons she has gained with the help of some examples from her personal encounters.

“One of the nation’s most effective advocates of family rights and feminist causes” according to Time magazine, Gloria Allred has dedicated herself to defending the rights of the people and earned hundreds of millions of dollars for victims of abuse. Gloria Allred, who was also nominated by her colleagues as among the most respected lawyers in the United States, has tackled numerous establishments in her struggle for equality. Such institutions include the United States Senate, the Friars Club and the Boys Scouts. In addition, she has served and represented the rights of her high-profile clients: Scott Peterson’s girlfriend Amber Frey, Nicole Brown Simpson’s family, and actress Hunter Tylo.

Through Gloria Allred’s memoir Fight Back and Win, she provides concrete, and even shocking, accounts of self-empowerment deriving from her professional and private life. Introducing about 50 of her most remarkable court cases, she supplies readers an in-depth description of the justice system, and how it’s possible to triumph even when faced with overwhelming odds.

Gloria Allred’s encouraging true accounts pose as a reminder to audiences that winning justice relies on the uprightness of the cause and a person’s determination to stand up, speak out and fight for what is right. Truly, Fight Back and Win is a testimony to this successful lawyer’s career and the challenges she has gone through, with several brave people backing her, to attain justice for all.