Truth - Al Franken [0]
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Also by Al Franken
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Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations
Why Not Me?
The Inside Story of the Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidency
Oh, the Things I Know!
A Guide to Success, or, Failing that, Happiness
Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
For two courageous women:
My Mom,
Phoebe Kunst Franken,
And my Mother-in-Law,
Frances Doyle Bryson.
Thanks for my life and my wife.
FOREWORD
AL FRANKEN, AMERICAN HERO
BY ANONYMOUS
When Al Franken asked me to write a foreword to this astonishing and profoundly moving book, he had only one condition: that I remain anonymous.
“Why?” I asked. “Having a big name like mine on your cover would be an enormous feather in any author’s cap.”
“That’s exactly the point,” he responded.
Al, you see, is too modest to want to call attention to the fact that he and I are such close friends. Typical Al. He always hides his light.
I reluctantly agreed to his condition, but in return I extracted one of my own. In exchange for concealing my famous identity, I demanded total control over the text of this foreword. I knew Al too well to give him the chance to edit out all the well-warranted praise I intended to heap on him. But even though this enthusiastic foreword will no doubt embarrass Al, I believe that you, the reader, deserve to know the full truth about this great American and about this book. I believe it to be not only the finest volume he has written, but perhaps the Great American Nonfiction Hardcover itself.
The Truth is a very different kind of book than the ones this multifaceted