This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America’s Gilded Cap ital Audiobook, by Mark Leibovich Play Audiobook Sample

This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America’s Gilded Cap ital Audiobook

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Read By: Joe Barrett Publisher: Penguin Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 7.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: July 2013 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781101605189

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

17

Longest Chapter Length:

67:21 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

15:26 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

41:39 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

4

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Publisher Description

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 four serious…shifts that have taken place over the last forty years. Combined, they make This Town read like the endgame chapters of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. In addition to his reporting talents, Leibovich is a writer of excellent zest. At times, this book is laugh-out-loud (as well as weep-out-loud). He is an exuberant writer, even as his reporting leaves one reaching for the Xanax.”

— New York Times Book Review 

Quotes

  • “Many decades from now, a historian looking at where America lost its way could use This Town as a primary source.”

    — Fareed Zakaria, New York Times bestselling author
  • “Provides a lancing, often hysterically funny portrait of the capital’s vanities and ambitions.”

    — New Yorker
  • “[Leibovich] is a master of the political profile…This Town is as insidery as Game Change.”

    — Washington Post
  • “Leibovich delivers the reportorial goods. He is in all the parties and supplies a wildly entertaining anthropological tour.”

    — New York magazine
  • “A rollicking, if disconcerting, read.”

    — Denver Post
  • “Like a modern-day Balzac to US capital power players…hilarious…perceptive.”

    — Financial Times
  • “Leibovich has written a very funny book about how horrible his industry can be… Uncommonly honest.”

    — Slate
  • “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

Awards

  • A New York Times bestseller
  • A USA Today bestseller
  • A Publishers Weekly bestseller
  • A #1 Washington Post bestseller
  • A #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller
  • 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.