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    The Senator Next Door: A Memoir from the Heartland
    The Senator Next Door: A Memoir from the Heartland
    The Senator Next Door: A Memoir from the Heartland
    Audiobook12 hours

    The Senator Next Door: A Memoir from the Heartland

    Written by Amy Klobuchar

    Narrated by Amy Klobuchar

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    About this audiobook

    One of the U.S. 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 U.S. 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateAug 25, 2015
    ISBN9781427271822
    The Senator Next Door: A Memoir from the Heartland
    Author

    Amy Klobuchar

    AMY KLOBUCHAR, the daughter of a newspaperman and a schoolteacher, is the senior senator from Minnesota, the first woman from that state to be elected to the U.S. Senate. A national leader in the Democratic party, she ran for president in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary and has a well-earned reputation for working across the aisle to pass legislation that supports families, workers and small businesses. She and her husband, John, are proud parents of their daughter, Abigail, now in law school.

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    • 2/5
      The book is very long and in listening to the audiobook, I notched it up to 1.5x to be able to tolerate the pacing. I had wanted to get a better idea of where the author stood on issues, more than on a superficial level. The book did not accomplish this. Instead, the book was a play-by-play of events that occurred on her career path, with too much detail that, in attempting to make the narration more authentic, was unnecessary include. For example, who cares if the folder she used to hold the speech introducing President Clinton was blue and that she didn’t remove the price tag until the very last minute?

      Her main tactic for doing things was working things out on a bipartisan level - we don’t know her positions on anything (with the exception of needing more women in higher positions). I feel she is leaving herself wiggle room so she can’t be pinned down to anything. This book is a few years old and it’s quite obvious now that things in the senate have changed and nothing seems to be settled.
    • 2/5
      Long winded, reads like a politician wrote it, still not really sure what her biggest political stances are.