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The senator from New York recounts his journey from obscurity to the U.S. Congress and discusses attacks on his ethics, health care, and other issues
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Local and federal administrations have come and gone, but in today's seat of senatorial power sits one of the most colorful - and controversial - senators of the last fifteen years: Senator Alfonse D'Amato, Republican, from New York State.Those who have tangled with "Senator Pothole" have rarely come away unscathed, and so he has become someone many love to hate. The press and others may pick on him, but the people have thrice elected him to represent New York State - and as his challengers have come to learn, his tenacity, street-smarts, and devotion to his constituents' needs are what the people want in today's politicians.Now, at the height of his power comes D'Amato's unforgettable "State of the Union" in Power, Pasta and Politics: The World According to Senator Al D'Amato.In the same hard-edged, straightforward style that made him famous, Senator D'Amato tells both his personal story - of the grandson of immigrants becoming New York's first Italian-American senator - and the story of New York and national politics.
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