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One of the nation's most acclaimed journalists, the New York Times' Mark Leibovich, presents a blistering, penetrating, controversial--and often hysterical--look at Washington's incestuous "media industrial complex."
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“[Leibovich] adduces fourserious…shifts that have taken place over the last forty years. Combined, theymake This Town read like the endgamechapters of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall ofthe Roman Empire. In addition to his reporting talents, Leibovich is awriter of excellent zest. At times, this book is laugh-out-loud (as well asweep-out-loud). He is an exuberant writer, even as his reporting leaves onereaching for the Xanax.”
— New York Times Book Review
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“Many decades from now, a historian looking at where America lost its way could use This Town as a primary source.”
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“Provides a lancing, often hysterically funny portrait of the capital’s vanities and ambitions.”
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“[Leibovich] is a master of the political profile…This Town is as insidery as Game Change.”
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“Leibovich delivers the reportorial goods. He is in all the parties and supplies a wildly entertaining anthropological tour.”
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“A rollicking, if disconcerting, read.”
— Denver Post -
“Like a modern-day Balzac to US capital power players…hilarious…perceptive.”
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“Leibovich has written a very funny book about how horrible his industry can be… Uncommonly honest.”
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“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.”
— Library Journal
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A New York Times bestseller
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A USA Today bestseller
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A Publishers Weekly bestseller
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A #1 Washington Post bestseller
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A #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller
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One of the New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books for 2013
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About Mark Leibovich
Mark Leibovich is a recipient of the National Magazine Award for profile writing. He is the author of four books, including the number one New York Times bestseller This Town, about the political culture of twenty-first-century Washington, DC. He joined The Atlantic, after a ten-year stint as chief national correspondent for the New York Times Magazine. Before that he covered national politics in the New York Times’ Washington Bureau. He previously worked at the Washington Post and the San Jose Mercury News.
About Joe Barrett
Joe Barrett, an actor and Audie Award and Earphones Award–winning narrator, has appeared both on and off Broadway as well as in hundreds of radio and television commercials.