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Barney Frank : the story of America's only left-handed, gay, Jewish congressman / Stuart E. Weisberg.

by Weisberg, Stuart E., 1949-

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Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2009.

Frank, Barney, 1940-

United States. Congress. House -- Biography.

Legislators -- United States -- Biography.

Gay legislators -- United States -- Biography.

United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.

United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-

9781558497214 (cloth : alk. paper)

1558497218 (cloth : alk. paper)

xii, 514 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Introduction -- An outspoken voice at the White House table -- Bayonne born and bred -- A decade at Harvard with only a B.A. to show for it -- Moving seamlessly from political theory at Harvard to hardball politics at City Hall -- Coming to Washington -- Running for the legislature from Ward 5, where everybody knows your name -- The gentleman from the back bay -- Mr. Frank goes to Washington with help from Pope John Paul II and John Kerry -- Rookie of the year -- Running against heckler-Reaganomics -- Barney, we hardly recognize ye -- Subcommittee Chairman Frank -- A Frank that relishes the perfect job -- Accompanying Yelena Bonner back to the USSR -- Coming out -- In surviving a Washington sex scandal, the importance of being frank -- A frank compromise on gays in the military -- The most hated man in Gingrichdom -- Defending the President against impeachment -- The gay Washington monument -- Talking frankly about not beating around the bush -- A committee chairman at last.

Stonewall Book Honor Book, 2010.

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