Eric Orner: Smahtguy

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Join us in store to welcome Eric Orner discussing his new book Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank!

<p>Eric Orner, the acclaimed cartoonist of one of the country’s most popular and longest-running gay comic strips, The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green, 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.</p><p> What 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&#x27;t and wouldn’t?In Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank, America’s  first out member of Congress and 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. As 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.</p>

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