The Senator Next Door: A Memoir from the Heartland Audible – Unabridged ridged
Author: Amy Klobuchar ID: B0147L8UEU
One of the US Senate’s most candid – and funniest – women tells the story of her life and her unshakeable faith in our democracy. Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar has tackled every obstacle she’s encountered – her parents’ divorce, her father’s alcoholism and recovery, her political campaigns and Washington’s gridlock – with honesty, humor and pluck. Now, in The Senator Next Door, she chronicles her remarkable heartland journey, from her immigrant grandparents to her middle-class suburban upbringing to her rise in American politics. After being kicked out of the hospital while her infant daughter was still in intensive care, Klobuchar became the lead advocate for one of the first laws in the country guaranteeing new moms and their babies a 48-hour hospital stay. Later she ran Minnesota’s biggest prosecutor’s office and in 2006 was the first woman elected to the US Senate from her state. Along the way she fashioned her own political philosophy grounded in her belief that partisan flame-throwing takes no courage at all; what really matters is forging alliances with unlikely partners to solve the nation’s problems. Optimistic, plainspoken and often very funny, The Senator Next Door is a story about how the girl next door decided to enter the fray and make a difference. At a moment when America’s government often seems incapable of getting anything done, Amy Klobuchar proves that politics is still the art of the possible.
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Audible Audio EditionListening Length: 12 hours and 16 minutesProgram Type: AudiobookVersion: UnabridgedPublisher: Macmillan AudioAudible.com Release Date: August 25, 2015Whispersync for Voice: ReadyLanguage: EnglishID: B0147L8UEU Best Sellers Rank: #90 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > United States > Legislative Branch #441 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Biographies & Memoirs > Historical & Political Figures #622 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Politics & Current Events
Free of the usual political platitudes and full of emotion – especially when describing her family – this is not your typical political autobiography. Since hearing Amy speak in Louisiana at a recent Democratic party event, I’ve wanted to learn more about her, and am now about half-way through the book. At heart, she seems to be a story-teller, and this is a book full of engaging stories about her loving but sometimes difficult early family life, the friends she met growing up in suburban Minnesota, and the lessons she learned in school, life, government and beyond. Frankly, it’s wonderful to actually feel like you know the person – and not just the talking points – when reading a political autobiography.
The Senator Next Door is an engaging, warm-hearted book that is sure to capture and hold the attention of any reader. With charm, humor, and humility, the senator shares the important events, people, and values that have shaped her and her political career. Well written and inspiring, The Senator Next Door is a refreshing portrait of an elected leader–one whom we can respect, admire, and count on to roll up her sleeves and work hard for people who need her help and for issues she believes in. I highly recommend this book.
The good Senator has written an engaging, heartwarming book. Her memoir is refreshing in these acerbic political times. Her warm anecdotes and easy prose reflect a kind, generous, dutiful public servant who serves her constituents — and the nation — quite well. She is clearly a brilliant, deep thinker who has an eye toward making the country a better place in which to live. She is also charming — her query to the doctor after hip replacement surgery, medically induced or not, describes a lighthearted political celebrity who does not take herself too seriously. Any follower of politics who has a keen interest in making our constitutional democracy even better will love the story of the Senator, and take comfort in the fact that she is a public servant with a keen eye on doing good. And in a setting where that trait seems in short supply, it is quite refreshing.
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