The story of real people and their real challenges. I describe whats gone wrong in their life, all we are doing about it now and what we can do better. Youll notice in the book there are many ideas that are bipartisan. They involve my collaboration with people of another party. Colleagues like chris coons of connecticut and cory booker in new jersey. Many of our policy proposals are part of it at all. Particularly when it comes to Higher Education. Youll read about how im working with mark warner to make Higher Education more affordable how im working with cory booker to provide more access to wifi and internet especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods. These are important initiatives as well. They are not easy to put on a bumper sticker. They dont win a lot of elections but they are critical to the future of our country. So we still have time and space and we should debate the issues we disagree on but i hope we can come together and cooperate on the essential issues of our time becau
Of this week its booktv in primetime. Up next, former congressman barney frank recounts his life and political career. He recently wrote a book a life in politics from the Great Society to samesex marriage. This is 50 minutes. [applause] [applause] thank you. Barney frank. First i will ask him questions and then we will get questions from the audience which i have on these cards. So i will accept or reject them as i wish. Congressman frank i was hoping you could say little bit about the two stories that you try to tell political stories you try to tell in this book which is about your life but also about your political world. It occurred to me as i started writing that their word to themes. I was a normal teenager in terms of my interest but part of it was my father wrote a Television Show called making 40. There were many Television Shows back then. I remember watching in the mccarthy era in 1954 where the republicans stood up to when he was smearing democrats. They said this has to s
Still be important, we will still be powerful and they will still matter on the global stage but we wont be a special. I for one dont want to be part of the first generation of americans that makes us worse off. I dont want to be the first generation of parents that has to turn has to turn to her children explain them why we got to grow up in the greatest country in Human History but they wont have the same chance. I know there is a lot of narrative about how divided the republican how would divided we are between republicans and democrats how divided we are among our political feelings and ideas and its true, we have always been a pretty opinionated people as evidenced here tonight tonight. Thats the benefit of our field but i believe what unites us is more important. No matter what your Voter Registration card says are who you voted or in the last election i do believe theres a unifying principle in american is the idea that every single human being should matter that everyone deserv