02852cam a2200337 4500 545384836 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781538760390 1538760398 B01LL8BRRE Amazon 14b71ad3-6cfd-4d28-90a4-637434fe7d22 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2946663 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Franken, Al. Al Franken, Giant of the Senate [Libby eBook]. Grand Central Publishing, 2017. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 55MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 54MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<b>From Senator Al Franken - #1 bestselling author and beloved <i>SNL</i> alum — comes the story of an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that.</b><br /> "Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously happy." — Louise Erdrich, <i>The New York Times</i> 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. Biography & Autobiography. Humor (Nonfiction.) Nonfiction. Politics. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=14b71ad3-6cfd-4d28-90a4-637434fe7d22&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=14b71ad3-6cfd-4d28-90a4-637434fe7d22&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=14b71ad3-6cfd-4d28-90a4-637434fe7d22&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)