The first woman from Missouri to be elected to the U.S. Senate, Claire McCaskill has championed her Show Me State constituents for more than a decade. Though she hails from a notable political family, she worked her way through law school as a waitress and labored in an era that didn’t welcome women into politics. From a failed first marriage to the father of her three children, to her stint as a tough-on-crime prosecutor, to her rise to become the ranking minority member of one of the Senate’s most important committees, McCaskill tells the rousing story of her uphill run toward political and personal success.