Al Franken, giant of the Senate / by Al Franken.
Franken, Al, author.
2017
E901.1.F73 A3 2017 (Mapit)
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Title Al Franken, giant of the Senate / by Al Franken.
Author Franken, Al, author.
Edition First hardcover edition.
ISBN 9781538759981 (hardcover signed edition)
1538759985 (hardcover signed edition)
9781455540419 (hardcover)
1455540412 (hardcover)
9781455571208 (large print)
1455571202
9781455540433
Published New York : Twelve, [2017]
Language English
Description vi, 406 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number E901.1.F73 A3 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 328.73/092 B
Summary The Harvard-educated comedian, talk-show host, and U.S. Senator chronicles the story of his unlikely senatorial campaign, detailing the ensuing months-long recount and what his service has taught him about America's deeply polarized political culture.
"From the #1 bestselling author--a book about an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that. This is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history and an unprecedented eight-month recount saga, which is pretty funny in retrospect. It's a book about what happens when the nation's foremost progressive satirist gets a chance to serve in the United States Senate and, defying the low expectations of the pundit class, actually turns out to be good at it. It's a book about our deeply polarized, frequently depressing, occasionally inspiring political culture, written from inside the belly of the beast. In this candid personal memoir, the honorable gentleman from Minnesota takes his army of loyal fans along with him from Saturday Night Live to the campaign trail, inside the halls of Congress, and behind the scenes of some of the most dramatic and/or hilarious moments of his new career in politics. Has Al Franken become a true Giant of the Senate? Franken asks readers to decide for themselves."--Jacket.
Note Includes index.
Awards New York Times BestSeller List.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
All Resources
Why I'm a Democrat
How I became a comedian
Saturday Night Live (not the drug part)
Saturday Night Live (the drug part)
Saturday Night Live (the part where I leave)
Paul
A 99 percent improvement
Year of the bean feed
The DeHumorizer(TM)
I attempt to litigate comedy
Hermann the German and the pull-out couch
No joke
Harry and Chuck
Icarus soars
Twixt cup and lip
Public opprobrium
My first powwow
Tax-dodging, rape-joking pornographer for Senate
Franni saves the campaign
"Has it gotten that bad?!"
"It's close, it's very close"
The recount
Welcome to the NFL
I actually become a senator
My first big win*
What gets me out of bed in the morning
The case of Perry Mason's lost case
The angel and the devil
Never give the staff credit
Letting my id run amok
I screw up
Operation curdle
Health care: now what?
I meet George W. Bush
The 64 percent rule
My Republican friends
Sophistry
Bulletproof
Cracks in my soul
The Koch brothers hate your grandchildren
No whining on the yacht
I win awards
We build a DeHumorizer(TM)
I get reelected
Lies and the lying liar who got himself elected President
I attend a presidential inauguration
Being as good as the people we serve.

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