{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Orner\u003c\/b\u003e is a former Congressional aide to Barney Frank and the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the country's most popular and longest-running gay comic strips. A feature film of the same title appeared in 2005, the same year that Orner retired the comic strip. Orner has also published comic strips and illustrations in the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, and the\u003ci\u003e New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e. His cartoon story \"Weekends Abroad\" was included in Houghton Mifflin's \u003ci\u003eBest American Comics 2011\u003c\/i\u003e. Orner lives in New York and \u003ci\u003eSmahtguy\u003c\/i\u003e is his first graphic novel.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Metropolitan Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50442574922002,"sku":"9781250191588","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ff5f49c9-5c4c-427e-9766-8a7a63a5d8e3.jpg?v=1729671436","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/smahtguy-the-life-and-times-of-barney-frank-9781250191588","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}