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.' From This Town Warning: This Town does not contain an index. 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. 'Today's insider Washington has become a sprawling 'conversation' in which tens of thousands partake by tweet, blog, or whatever. This Town is must reading, whether you're inside the Beltway or just trying to get there. Outrageous, fascinating, and destined to win Leibovich a whole host of, er, new friends. 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. How a disgraced Hill aide can overcome ignominy and maybe emerge with a more potent 'brand' than many elected members of Congress. 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. 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.
No matter how many elections you lose, apologies you make, or make, or scandals you endure. You will always have lunch in This Town again. That is the grubby secret of the place in the twenty-first century. There are no Democrats and Republicans anymore in the nation's capital, just millionaires. 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. And there is not time to waste in a gold rush, even (or especially) at a solemn tribal event like this. Power mourners keep stampeding down the red carpets of the Kennedy Center, handing out business cards, touching base. Big Ticket Washington Funerals can make such great networking opportunities.
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