Stuart Weisberg

Gebundenes Buch

Barney Frank

The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman

Beschreibung

Based on interviews with more than 150 people, this biography reconstructs for the first time the outspoken lawmaker's life and career, from his working-class childhood in Bayonne, New Jersey, to his years at Harvard and in Boston politics, through his rise to national prominence.

Autor

Stuart Weisberg is an attorney who spent ten years as staff director and chief counsel for the House Government Operations Subcommittee on Employment and Housing. He directed the subcommittee's lengthy investigation in 1989 of what came to known as the "HUD scandal." During the Clinton administration, he served as chair of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, an independent federal adjudicative agency. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Massachusetts Press
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 164mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1039g
• ISBN-13: 9781558497214
• ISBN-10: 1558497218
• Artikelnr.: 25863316