Senator Joseph I. Lieberman was the 2000 Democratic nominee for vice president alongside presidential candidate Al Gore. From 1989 until 2013, Lieberman served as senator from Connecticut, first as a member of the Democratic Party and then, from 2006, as an independent. Previously he served in the Connecticut state senate and as the state attorney general. Lieberman is the author of seven books, including, most recently, The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath (with David Klinghoffer).