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Author_Rod Blagojevich
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- ISBN 9781510785236
- Weight: 559g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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He was one of the most famous politicians in America—until he became one of its most famous prisoners.
Once, Rod Blagojevich was governor of Illinois: a creature of headlines, a natural showman, and a man with, by his own telling, “a fucking golden” political future. Then came the fall—an FBI raid at dawn, a national media spectacle, and a one-way trip from the governor’s mansion to federal prison.
What follows is not a quiet tale of disgrace, but a vivid, darkly comic, deeply personal odyssey through power, punishment, and survival.
In these pages, Blagojevich takes readers behind bars and into a world at once brutal and bizarre: a world of gang politics, prison hustles, absurd rules, strange codes of honor, unexpected kindness, and men with nicknames like they stepped out of a fever dream. There are bank robbers with better manners than politicians, correctional officers with broken hearts, chow halls run like war zones, and enough gallows humor to make you laugh when you know you probably shouldn’t.
But at the center of this story is something more intimate and enduring: a father’s longing for his daughters, a husband’s devotion to his wife, and the daily struggle to hold on to dignity, faith, and hope in a place built to strip them away. For all its swagger and wisecracks, this is the story of a man measuring time not in years served, but in missed birthdays, prison visits, letters home, and the memory of one last wave goodbye.
By turns outrageous, indignant, hilarious, and deeply moving, Framed, F*cked, and Freed is an unforgettable memoir of a political life shattered, a family held at a distance, and a man determined to keep fighting, keep loving, and keep his voice to the very end
Once, Rod Blagojevich was governor of Illinois: a creature of headlines, a natural showman, and a man with, by his own telling, “a fucking golden” political future. Then came the fall—an FBI raid at dawn, a national media spectacle, and a one-way trip from the governor’s mansion to federal prison.
What follows is not a quiet tale of disgrace, but a vivid, darkly comic, deeply personal odyssey through power, punishment, and survival.
In these pages, Blagojevich takes readers behind bars and into a world at once brutal and bizarre: a world of gang politics, prison hustles, absurd rules, strange codes of honor, unexpected kindness, and men with nicknames like they stepped out of a fever dream. There are bank robbers with better manners than politicians, correctional officers with broken hearts, chow halls run like war zones, and enough gallows humor to make you laugh when you know you probably shouldn’t.
But at the center of this story is something more intimate and enduring: a father’s longing for his daughters, a husband’s devotion to his wife, and the daily struggle to hold on to dignity, faith, and hope in a place built to strip them away. For all its swagger and wisecracks, this is the story of a man measuring time not in years served, but in missed birthdays, prison visits, letters home, and the memory of one last wave goodbye.
By turns outrageous, indignant, hilarious, and deeply moving, Framed, F*cked, and Freed is an unforgettable memoir of a political life shattered, a family held at a distance, and a man determined to keep fighting, keep loving, and keep his voice to the very end
Rod Blagojevich grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. Shaped by hard work and determination, Rod began his career as an assistant state’s attorney in Cook County, Illinois. Politics soon called, and he soon started rising through the ranks, from becoming a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, to the U.S. House of Representatives, to making history as the 40th Governor of Illinois, re-elected in 2006.
In December 2008, Rod was arrested on corruption charges, including allegations of attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama. The ensuing scandal led to his impeachment in 2009 and a conviction in 2011, until President Donald Trump commuted his sentence in 2020.
Now, Rod continues to captivate and inspire conversations about ambition, resilience, and second chances.
In December 2008, Rod was arrested on corruption charges, including allegations of attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama. The ensuing scandal led to his impeachment in 2009 and a conviction in 2011, until President Donald Trump commuted his sentence in 2020.
Now, Rod continues to captivate and inspire conversations about ambition, resilience, and second chances.
