This Town
Two Parties and a Funeral - Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking! - in America’s Gilded Capital
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Joe Barrett
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Mark Leibovich
One of the nation's most acclaimed journalists, The New York Times' Mark Leibovich, presents a blistering, penetrating, jaw-dropping - and often hysterical - look at Washington’s incestuous "media industrial complex".
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 great thing is you can always eat lunch in that town again. What keeps the permanent government spinning on its carousel is the freedom of shamelessness, and that mother's milk of politics, cash.
In Mark Leibovich’s remarkable look at the way things really work in D.C., a funeral for a beloved television star becomes the perfect networking platform, a disgraced political aide can emerge with more power than his boss, campaign losers befriend their vanquishers (and make more money than ever!), "conflict of interest" is a term lost in translation, political reporters are fetishized and worshipped for their ability to get one's name in print, and, well - we're all really friends, aren't we?
What Julia Phillips did for Hollywood, Timothy Crouse did for journalists, and Michael Lewis did for Wall Street, Mark Leibovich does for our nation's capital.
©2013 Mark Leibovich (P)2013 Penguin AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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"This Town is funny, it's interesting, and it is demoralizing.... I loved it as much as you can love something which hurts your heart." (John Oliver, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart)
"In addition to his reporting talents, Leibovich is a writer of excellent zest. At times his book is laugh-out-loud (as well as weep-out-loud). He is an exuberant writer, even as his reporting leaves one reaching for Xanax.... [This Town] is vastly entertaining and deeply troubling." (Christopher Buckley, The New York Times Book Review)
"It's been the summer of This Town. What lingers from This Town is what will linger in Washington well after its current dinosaurs are extinct: the political culture owned by big money." (Frank Rich, New York Magazine)
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great book
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There are already three parties in Washington, D.C
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Get Off Your High Horse
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Now we can rest assured that politicians on "both sides of the aisle" are entirely cynical in their dealings with each other and particularly with the voters.
In today's world, even a terrific loss can be "monetized" to the point that losers such as Generals McChrystal and Petraeus are far better off financially now after being fired from their jobs.
The books is quite humorous, and I highly recommend it.
The amounts of money involved here are extraordinary!
Says what we already thought, but now with facts
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It’s still ThisTown
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The narrator was brilliant. Laugh out loud funny delivery and some great impersonations too!
Best Narration Ever
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If you could sum up This Town in three words, what would they be?
Intriguing, honest and funWhat did you like best about this story?
I hate to say this, but this book did for me what wall street did for so many back in the 1980s, it made me want to jump into the world he was warning us about! What a great read!What about Joe Barrett’s performance did you like?
Cheesy, but the voices were great!If you could give This Town a new subtitle, what would it be?
Prepare yourself for the truth that we always knew, but never wanted to confront.Any additional comments?
LISTEN OR READ THIS BOOK, IT IS AWESOME!This Town makes me want to change careers!
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One boo-boo in the performance that I have never encountered before in an audiobook: In Part II, Track 4, Chapter 10 of the book is repeated. Kinda threw me for a loop but fast forward to the next track when you get there and the performance moves on to Chapter 11...
Kick the bums OUT! But...to where?
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I downloaded this the day it came out and am honestly astonished there hasn't been more outrage. Seems like Leibovich is trying to make an important point, but obviously the majority of readers are missing it. (Maybe because they're all trying to figure out if they're in the book, or know someone who is?)
I've long talked others in DC who confirm what he's saying . The ruling class in DC is cashing out and "riding it down in style". In other words, they know the plane is going to crash, but not in their lifetime...hopefully...so, yeah, whatever.
Please listen to this book. Yes, its very funny and entertaining--Leibovich is skilled writer--but it also reveals a capital that every US citizen should be aware of.
Funny? Breezy? I wish
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On another level, the book is a gossip-fest that rivals the trashiest and sleaziest gossip magazines that grace the checkout lanes of your local supermarket.
Mark Leibovich rexplores the insider view of the professional and personal lives of politicians, pundits, staffers, lobbyists, and PR people who populate the seemingly endless parties and other self-congratulatory assemblages within D.C. society, focusing primarily on specific personalities and relationships which are the background behind what actually goes on, behind the scenes, in the nation's capitol. Leibovich often strips bare the more generally accepted profiles of the major players of government, expounding on numerous well-known (and many lesser-known) functionaries, providing some insight into their motivations and methods of operation. In general, Liebovich portrays a town of navel-gazers, universally obsessed with who they know, what parties they are invited to, what power and influence they have, and how they can parlay their service into every higher-paying opportunities.
I enjoyed much of the background information and historical perspectives on well-known Washington players, although I admit that snark, like anything else, can get to be a bit too much. Still, the book does provide a rather unique insight into people who they often see on talk television or hear on talk radio, see quoted in the newspaper, and talked about elsewhere, providing more depth and insight that the popular press can convey.
Narrator Joe Barrett does an excellent job, conveying the cynicism of the text without being overbearing about it.
In short, political junkies and gossip fans will enjoy this... but not everyone else will.
A Snarkfest for Political Junkies
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