Book
Al Franken, giant of the Senate
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Publication Information
New York : Twelve, 2017.
Physical Description
vi, 406 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
- 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 pill-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.