This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral--Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!--inAmerica's Gilded Capital [NOOK Book]

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Tim Russert is dead.
But the room was alive.
Big Ticket Washington Funerals can make such great networking opportunities. Power mourners keep stampeding down the red carpets of the Kennedy Center, handing out business cards, touching base. And there is no time to waste in a gold rush, even (or especially) at a solemn tribal event like this.

Washington—This Town—might be ...
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This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral--Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!--inAmerica's Gilded Capital

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Overview

Tim Russert is dead.
But the room was alive.
Big Ticket Washington Funerals can make such great networking opportunities. Power mourners keep stampeding down the red carpets of the Kennedy Center, handing out business cards, touching base. And there is no time to waste in a gold rush, even (or especially) at a solemn tribal event like this.

Washington—This Town—might be loathed from every corner of the nation, yet these are fun and busy days at this nexus of big politics, big money, big media, and big vanity. There are no Democrats and Republicans anymore in the nation’s capital, just millionaires. That is the grubby secret of the place in the twenty-first century. You will always have lunch in This Town again. No matter how many elections you lose, apologies you make, or scandals you endure.

In This Town, Mark Leibovich, chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine, presents a blistering, stunning—and often hysterically funny—examination of our ruling class’s incestuous “media industrial complex.” Through his eyes, we discover how the funeral for a beloved newsman becomes the social event of the year. How political reporters are fetishized for their ability to get their names into the predawn e-mail sent out by the city’s most powerful and puzzled-over journalist. How a disgraced Hill aide can overcome ignominy and maybe emerge with a more potent “brand” than many elected members of Congress. And how an administration bent on “changing Washington” can be sucked into the ways of This Town with the same ease with which Tea Party insurgents can, once elected, settle into it like a warm bath.

Outrageous, fascinating, and destined to win Leibovich a whole host of, er, new friends, This Town is must reading, whether you’re inside the Beltway—or just trying to get there.
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Washington, DC: it's a hell of a town. Just ask Leibovich, a New York Timespolitical feature correspondent based there. In this muckraking tell-all, which would be as darkly funny as it's billed to be if it weren't all true, Leibovich depicts a shameless place where funerals are for networking, disgraced aides come out ahead, and getting one's name in print is what matters. Embargoed until publication date, after which Leibovich will have to get out of town.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781101611081
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
  • Publication date: 7/16/2013
  • Sold by: Penguin Group
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 400
  • Sales rank: 103
  • File size: 2 MB

Meet the Author


Mark Leibovich is The New York Times Magazine chief national correspondent, based in Washington, D.C.  In 2011, he received a National Magazine Award for his story on Politico's Mike Allen and the changing media culture of Washington. Prior to coming to the Times Magazine, Leibovich was a national political reporter in the Times' DC bureau. He has also worked at The Washington Post, The San Jose Mercury News and The Boston Phoenix, and is the author of The New Imperialists, a collection of profiles on technology pioneers. Leibovich lives with his family in Washington.
 
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  • Anonymous

    Posted Thu Jul 18 00:00:00 EDT 2013

    Not one 5 star review from 7/18 back is about the book - just no

    Not one 5 star review from 7/18 back is about the book - just nookie/texters chatting - get a life.

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    Posted Thu Jul 18 00:00:00 EDT 2013

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