Timothy Egan on Leibovich's "This Town"

Timothy Egan wrote an interesting editorial that appeared in the New York Times recently about Mark Leibovich's new book about Washington, D.C., This Town.  I particularly liked his closing paragraphs quoted below:

"In Leibovich’s book, the capital is a swamp of sycophants, vacuity and soullessness. 

Those new to power aspire to join the permanent class — a “political herd that never dies or gets older, only jowlier, richer and more heavily made-up.

The rest of us, I suppose, could take a schadenfreude moment while considering the freaks who populate “This Town.” Or we could just laugh at the madness. 

But it’s not slip-on-the-banana-peel-funny when one of the three main branches of a venerable democracy falls apart."

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