{"product_id":"smahtguy-the-life-and-times-of-barney-frank-9781250191588","title":"Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Orner, the acclaimed cartoonist of one of the country's most popular and longest-running gay comic strips, \u003ci\u003eThe Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green\u003c\/i\u003e, presents his debut graphic novel--a dazzling, irreverent biography of the iconic and iconoclastic Barney Frank, one of the first gay and out congressmen and a front-line defender of civil rights. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat are the odds that a disheveled, zaftig, closeted kid with the thickest of Jersey accents might wind up running Boston on behalf of a storied Irish Catholic political machine, drafting the nation's first gay rights laws, reforming Wall Street after the Great Recession, and finding love, after a lifetime assuming that he couldn't and wouldn't? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSmahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank, \u003c\/i\u003eone of America's first out members of Congress and a gay and civil rights crusader for an era is confirmed as a hero of our age. But more than a biography of an indispensable LGBTQ pioneer, this funny, beautifully rendered, warts-and-all graphic account reveals the down-and-dirty inner workings of Boston and DC politics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Frank's longtime staff counsel and press secretary, Eric Orner lends his first-hand perspective to this extraordinary work of history, paying tribute to the mighty striving of committed liberals to defend ordinary Americans from an assault on their shared society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Metropolitan Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250191588\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/04\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2022 pg. 36\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/07\/2022 pg. 48\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Eric Orner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41840035987637,"sku":"9781250191588","price":22.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_7595a0e4-743f-4aae-b925-6a1d87e530e3.jpg?v=1646731267","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/smahtguy-the-life-and-times-of-barney-frank-9781250191588","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}