{"product_id":"0399161309","title":"This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral--Plus Plenty of Valet Parking!--in America's Gilded Capital","description":"\n\u003cp\u003eTim Russert is Dead. But the room was alive.\u003cbr\u003e 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 not time to waste in a gold rush, even (or especially) at a solemn tribal event like this.\u003cbr\u003e Washington This Town might be loathed from every corner of the nation, yet these are fun and busy days at this nexus of bug 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 make, or scandals you endure.\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThis Town\u003c\/i\u003e, Mark Leibovich, chief national correspondent for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e Outrageous, fascinating, and destined to win Leibovich a whole host of, er, new friends. \u003ci\u003eThis Town\u003c\/i\u003e is must reading, whether you're inside the Beltway or just trying to get there.\u003cbr\u003e 'Today's insider Washington has become a sprawling 'conversation' in which tens of thousands partake by tweet, blog, or whatever . . . The Washington story has become something more momentous, befitting a 'narrative': a pumped-up word in a pumped-up place where everything is changing, maybe more than in any city in the country . . . Or maybe nothing is changing at all, and the only certainty is that the city fathers of This Town will endure like perennials in a well-tended cemetery.' \u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThis Town\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWarning: \u003ci\u003eThis Town\u003c\/i\u003e does not contain an index. 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