Barney Frank: The Story of America's Only Left-handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman - Hardcover

Weisberg, Stuart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1558497218 ISBN 13: 9781558497214

Verlag: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009

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Book by Stuart Weisberg

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"Barney Frank is a masterful legislator and one of the great political minds of our generation. His style - principled but pragmatic, tenacious yet fair, and always brilliant and funny - has won him the respect of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle. Stuart Weisberg's lively biography of Barney Frank documents all of these extraordinary qualities, and the many ways in which he enriches our democracy." - Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives "Barney Frank is one of the most brilliant, effective - and funny - lawmakers of his generation. Not many Congressmen are worthy of a book, but Stuart Weisberg's carefully researched and authoritative account proves that Barney's life and career are indeed the stuff of fine biography." - Cokie Roberts, ABC News political commentator, and Steven V. Roberts, Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University"

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An intimate and detailed biography of one of the nation's most distinctive and effective politicians. In a survey conducted by ""Washingtonian"" magazine, Barney Frank was rated the smartest, funniest, and most eloquent member of Congress. A mainstay in the House of Representatives since 1981, he has come to be known for his talent as a legislator, his zeal for verbal combat, his imposing intellect, and a quick wit that both disarms and entertains other lawmakers. Most recently, as chair of the Financial Services Committee, he was instrumental in crafting a compromise bill to stem the tide of home mortgage foreclosures, as well as the subsequent $700 billion 'rescue plan'. Based on interviews with over 150 people, including more than twenty-five hours with Frank himself, this biography reconstructs for the first time his life and career, from his working-class childhood in Bayonne, New Jersey, to his years at Harvard and in Boston politics, through his rise to national prominence. Stuart Weisberg captures Frank in all his quirkiness, irreverence, and complexity. He also examines his less appealing side - his gruff exterior, his legendary impatience, his aversion to wasting time. Weisberg reveals the pressure Frank has felt as the most prominent openly gay politician in the United States, one whose career was nearly derailed by a highly publicized sex scandal involving a male prostitute. Above all, this book shows Frank to be a superb legislator - a pragmatic politician who has dedicated his career to pursuing an unabashedly liberal agenda and whose depth of intellect and keen sense of humor have made him one of the most influential and colorful figures in Washington.

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• Verlag: University of Massachusetts Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1558497218
• ISBN 13: 9781558497214
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 584