Download This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral - Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking! - in America's Gilded Capital AudioBook Free
One of the nation's most acclaimed journalists, The New York Times' Make Leibovich, presents a blistering, penetrating, jaw-dropping - and frequently hysterical - look at Washington's incestuous "press industrial organic". The great thing about Washington is no matter how many elections you lose, how many times you're indicted, how many scandals you've been tainted by, well, the best thing is you can always eat lunchtime in that town again. What continues the permanent government spinning on its carousel is the independence of shamelessness, which mother's dairy of politics, cash. In Make Leibovich's remarkable look at the way things really work in D.C., a funeral for a loved television superstar becomes the perfect networking platform, a disgraced politics aide can emerge with an increase of electricity than his employer, campaign losers befriend their vanquishers (and make more money than ever!), "conflict of interest" is a term lost in translation, politics reporters are fetishized and worshipped for their potential to get one's name on the net, and, well - we're all really friends, aren't we? What Julia Phillips performed for Hollywood, Timothy Crouse performed for journalists, and Michael Lewis performed for Wall Avenue, Mark Leibovich does indeed for our nation's capital.
