Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets, 14th & V, presents Senator Amy Klobuchar as she discusses The Senator Next Door: A Memoir from the Heartland.
The senior senator from Minnesota, Klobuchar was elected in 2006—the first woman to serve her state as a U.S. senator. Her forthright and often funny account of her career is as much a chronicle of politics as it is the story of an American family. Klobuchar looks back to her grandparents’ experiences as immigrants, charts her father’s struggle with alcoholism, and recounts her own fight to guarantee new mothers and infants a forty-eight-hour hospital stay. Whatever the issue at hand, Klobuchar emphasizes the need to avoid partisanship in crafting legislation—and she repeatedly shows that this is not only imperative, but possible.
