As an act of intentional public service (see below), I will read this on your behalf and suffer through the resulting sickness. It would be self serving to send copies to those who think me too cynical. "Mark Leibovich toyed with several titles for his new book on self-interest, self-importance and self-perpetuation in the nation’s capital. “Suck-Up City” was one. “The Club” was another. Finally, he settled on “This Town,” a nod, he explains, to the “faux disgust” with which people here refer to their natural habitat." "It’s not bad, but the longer I roamed around “This Town,” the more I thought Leibovich should have borrowed Newsweek’s memorable post-Sept. 11, 2001, cover line: “Why They Hate Us.” His tour through Washington only feeds the worst suspicions anyone can have about the place — a land driven by insecurity, hypocrisy and cable hits, where friendships are transactional, blind-copying is rampant and acts of public service appear largely accidental." washingtonpost/opinions/review-of-mark-leibovichs-this-town 2013/07/03/5d882b8c-de9f-11e2-b94a-452948b95ca8_story.html
Posted on: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 14:35:38 +0000