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How did a disheveled, intellectually combative homosexual Jew with a heavy New Jersey-Massachusetts accent become one of the very most effective politicians of his time? On this candid and witty politics memoir, Barney Frank relates his quest from the outskirts of NEW YORK to Boston's City Hall and the Massachusetts legislature, and then to the US Congress, where he played out a essential role in the have difficulty for personal independence and financial fairness over four generations. With his trademark directness and information, Frank explores the psychological toll of moving into the closet and how he became the first person in Congress to reveal his homosexuality voluntarily. And he chronicles his lifelong have difficulty against inequality, which culminated in cowriting the most significant Wall Street regulations because the Great Unhappiness. He also demonstrates how he used his rhetorical skills to expose his opponents's hypocrisies and delusions and details the limitless favors, grudges, and concerns that compose a legislator's profession. In the Clinton impeachment to the financial meltdown of 2008 to the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", Frank's words and deeds mattered, and Frank shows why. Here is a guide to how politics change really happens, made up by a master of the art, and a testament to how Democrats, if they reject purism and passivity, can restore trust in an active government.
