This Town
About This Book
Mark Leibovich, a longtime chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine, takes readers inside the social and professional world of Washington, D.C. His subject is the tight circle where politicians, lobbyists, journalists and consultants trade favors, flatter one another and build their own personal brands. In his telling, power in the capital is bound up with money, media attention and a great deal of self-regard. The book is built from scenes that show how the place works. The funeral of a beloved television newsman turns into the capital's biggest social occasion of the year. Political reporters compete to see their names appear in a predawn email sent out by one of the city's most powerful and most puzzling journalists. A Capitol Hill aide who left in disgrace manages to rebuild himself into a brand with more clout than many sitting members of Congress. Leibovich also examines how the city absorbs the people who arrive promising to change it. An administration that came in vowing to shake up Washington gets pulled into its habits, and Tea Party insurgents, once elected, settle comfortably into the same routines. The result is a sharp, often darkly funny portrait of the capital's culture, written for readers who live inside the Beltway and those who only follow it from afar.
ISBN: 9780399170683
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