U.S. Sen. John Kennedy had been thinking about writing a book when an agent approached him and secured a deal with a HarperCollins imprint. Kennedy took a year to write “How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will.”

Thanks to his home-spun phrases during frequent appearances on Fox News and other conservative TV networks, Kennedy’s book shot to number one on Amazon.com and has been a New York Times bestseller since being published in early October.

Kennedy grew up in Zachary, graduated from Vanderbilt and the University of Virginia Law School and obtained a First-Class Honors degree from Oxford University in England. He was elected state treasurer five times before being elected to the Senate in 2016 and winning reelection in 2022. He is 73 years old.

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