Barney Frank

Barney Frank by Stuart E. Weisberg Download PDF EPUB FB2

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 sincehe 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 Cited by: 1.

Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage is his account of America’s transformation―and the tale of a truly momentous career. From the battle over AIDS funding in the s to the financial crisis, Barney Frank played a key role, and in this feisty and often moving memoir, he candidly discusses the /5().

Barney Frank’s career in Congress spanned enough time and elevated him to enough prominence that most of the significant American political figures from the last four decades flitted through it.

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Barney Frank: The Story of America’s Only Left-handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman (), a political biography by author and political adviser Stuart E.

Weisberg, narrates the life story of Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Congressman first elected inwho rose to become Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. Barney Frank never finished his dissertation in political science, but this book is better than the typical annual output of the entire profession taken together.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention: Frank is funny, dropping his best one-liners into the narration at frequent intervals. My Life as a Gay Congressman. Barney Frank is a Politico columnist and a former Democratic representative This arrangement was tested in mid when a book was published that implicitly Author: Barney Frank.

Frank is an intimate, courageous, and revealing book about what the political landscape looks like from his unique perspective.” —Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish Journal “Barney Frank will be remembered as one of the hardest-working, quickest-thinking, most effective--and most quotable--congressmen in our nation's history.

Leading the struggle for personal freedom and economic fairness over nearly five decades in Congress, Barney Frank is widely considered one. Barney Frank. Barnett Frank is a former American politician and board member of the New York-based Signature Bank.

He previously served as a member of. Barney Frank and Christopher J. Dodd received a hero’s welcome during a visit to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the watchdog agency created as.

Barney Frank (left) came out of the closet in when he was in a relationship with Herb Moses (right). They eventually split. InFrank married Jim Ready, becoming the first member of. Frank was born on Ma in Bayonne, New Jersey. He studied at Harvard University. He has been married to Jim Ready since Barney's latest book is "Frank Barney Frank," a review of his personal and political career and a strong argument for empowering government to help people.

ReferencesBorn: Barnett Frank, Ma (age 79). Barney Frank. Barney Frank represented the Fourth Congressional District of Massachusetts for more than three decades and chaired the House Financial Services Committee from to He is a regular commentator on MSNBC and divides his time between a home with his husband near Portland, Maine, and his apartment in Newton, Massachusetts.

In this book the former Capitol Hill staff member presents a comprehensive look at the life and career of U.S. Representative Barney Frank (D-MA). The biography is based on more than Here's Barney Frank, in an exit interview recently in New York Magazine, revealing unwittingly that Obama during the transition rejected a Bush administration concession to write down mortgages.

Here's what Barney said. The mortgage crisis was worsened this past time because critical decisions were made during the transition between Bush and Obama.

Barney Frank, now an MSNBC commentator, represented the fourth district of Massachusetts for nearly five decades and chaired the House Financial Services Committee. In his spirited and direct.The Cross-Generational Politics of Barney Frank.

The Atlantic. Since, in his usual way, Barney Frank gets right to the point in his new memoir, I will too: the most engaging—and indeed occasionally heartrending (not an adjective I ever thought I’d use in writing about Frank)—parts of this book are those.The Cross-Generational Politics of Barney Frank The Congressman's memoir tackles two of the biggest political shifts of his lifetime: the acceptance of gay people in public life and a dramatic Author: Barney Frank.