02284cam a2200361 i 4500 332620014 TxAuBib 20171025120000.0 170512s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017932020 9781455540419 1455540412 (OCoLC)987002041 TxAuBib rda Franken, Al. Al Franken, giant of the Senate [ANF] / by Al Franken. First hardcover edition. New York : Twelve, 2017. ©2017. vi, 406 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index. "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. 20170728. Franken, Al. United States Congress Senate Biography. Comedians United States Biography. Legislators United States Biography. Autobiographies. TXGPL