Ex-Gov. Blagojevich Writes Prison Memoir Of Time Behind Bars

Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich has written a memoir of his time in prison following a political scandal that saw him convicted and impeached more than a decade ago.

Titled "Framed, F*cked, and Freed: A Governor's Odyssey," the book was released on Tuesday. Its Amazon listing describes it as "a vivid, darkly comic, deeply personal odyssey through power, punishment, and survival" and "outrageous, indignant, hilarious, and deeply moving."

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Blagojevich served about eight of the 14 years to which he was sentenced in federal prison after prosecutors accused him of attempting to sell then-president-elect Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat, although an appellate court later tossed out five of the 18 convictions. President Donald Trump commuted Blagojevich's sentence in 2020 and pardoned him in 2025.

This is Blagojevich's second book. His first — "The Governor: Finally, the Truth Behind the Political Scandal That Continues to Rock the Nation" — came out in 2009 in the wake of the controversy.

WLS sat down with Blagojevich recently and reported that the former governor maintains his innocence and now identifies as a "Trump-ocrat" or "a Democrat for Trump."