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The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- ISBN
- 9781538708057
- Book Title
- Big Break : The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4in
- Genre
- Political Science
- Topic
- Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, American Government / General, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 19.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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Product Information
"No one gets today's Washington like Ben Terris...THE BIG BREAK is the definitive accounting of 'how it works' in this ongoing post-Trump (pre-Trump?) maelstrom. I just imbibed this book." Mark Leibovich, author of This Town In this fascinating investigation into the real life inner workings of a post-Trump American government, uncover the odd and eccentric personalities grappling for their own bit of power in D.C. The Big Break investigates how Washington works, and how different kinds of people try to make it work for them. Ben Terris presents an inside history of this crucial moment in Washington, reporting from exclusive parties, poker nights, fundraisers, secluded farms outside town and the halls of Congress; among the oddballs and opportunists and true believers. This book is about the people who see this moment as an opportunity to bet big--on their country or maybe just on themselves. It will take a close look at Washington's bold-faced names as they try to get their bearings on the post-Trump (and possibly pre-Trump) landscape. And it will introduce readers to the behind-the-scenes players -- MAGA pilgrims and Resistance flamekeepers and shapeshifting veterans -- who believe they know what Washington, and America, must do if they're going to survive, or even thrive. Trump's arrival in Washington represented a big break in how the city operated. He surrounded himself with outsiders; power structures reorganized around those who knew him or his family and those who could flatter and influence his base. He changed the way the game was played, only it wasn't actually a game at all. When pro-Trump elements both inside and outside of government plotted to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election, the Capitol became a combat zone, then a military fortress. It was, to put it lightly, a destabilizing time. But how much did the Trump years really change Washington? Has Joe Biden's presidency heralded a return to normal, as many had hoped? What did 'normal' mean before Trump, and what do people think it means now? The Big Break will follow a cast of D.C. characters in search of answers to these questions. They are a diverse crew--a pollster with a gambling habit, an oil heiress with a big heart, a cowboy lobbyist, a Republican kingmaker who decided to love Trump and his right-hand man who decided he couldn't any longer. They all share at least one thing in common: They had seen their country go through a Big Break, and they'd come to get theirs.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10
1538708051
ISBN-13
9781538708057
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23057274644
Product Key Features
Book Title
Big Break : The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, American Government / General, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Political Science
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
19.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Jk1726
Reviews
"I thought nothing about Washington's sordid power-and-influence scene could surprise me--until I read Ben Terris's book. With his roguish reporting methods, Ben has revealed something original, entertaining, and profoundly disturbing about the rotting soul of the American political system. If Mark Leibovich's This Town captured Washington in its virtue-signaling heyday, Ben has produced a masterful, vice-spiked sequel for the Trump era and beyond."-- Tim Alberta, Staff writer of The Atlantic and author of American Carnage, "Ben Terris is the most important reporter in Washington because he ignores everything that's important. Instead of the great and terrible, he writes about the characters, climbers, con artists, fools, and dreamers who operate the levers behind the curtain. It's comforting, because it turns out these people are just like us--and horrifying, for exactly the same reason."-- Peter Sagal, host of NPR's Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me!, "Instead of staring at the puppet show of modern Washington, Ben Terris goes behind the curtain to talk to the people pulling the strings, or at least trying to. His subjects are climbers, dreamers, con-artists and true believers, sometimes all four at once. The stories he tells here are oddly comforting, because it turns out these people are just like us, and also terrifying, for exactly the same reason." -- Peter Sagal, host of NPR's Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me!, "An intimate, entertaining and damning portrait of the way Washington works, not just now but maybe always."-- Washington Post Review, "Many books promise to reveal 'how Washington really works.' THE BIG BREAK actually does--by zooming in not on the principals--the politicians and talking heads--but instead on the worker bees: the staffers who make our capital work each day, a hard to decipher mix of craven opportunists and the true believers who are sometimes one in the same. What happened next can only be understood through the eyes of Ben Terris, one of the most principled and perceptive reporters in Washington, who masterfully guides us through the destabilizing decade that followed the first black presidency." -- Wesley Lowery, Pulitzer Prize winning journalists and author of American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress, "No one gets today's Washington like Ben Terris - in all its particular contours and caricatures. THE BIG BREAK is the definitive accounting of 'how it works' in this ongoing post-Trump (pre-Trump?) maelstrom. I just imbibed this book." -- Mark Leibovich, author of This Town and Thank You for Your Servitude, "This is not just another book about Washington. It's a wild ride, filled with wit, humor, actual people (not just robotic politicians), and drama--so much drama. I found myself cracking up reading Ben's wonderful writing, and then also terrified that maybe Democracy was on the verge of cracking up too."-- Molly Jong-Fast, special correspondent for Vanity Fair and host of the Fast Politics podcast, "The highest praise I can give of this book is my nearly unbearable professional jealousy upon reading it. THE BIG BREAK offers as authentic a depiction of the Trump-era Washington archetypes as has been put to paper. If you want to understand the true VEEPish underbelly of the Washington Swamp there might not be a better text. Ben's clear-eyed, perceptive assessment of DC is both empathetic and withering and filled with enough gallows humor to keep the reader from descending into utter misery over the state of affairs. I recommend it for DC insiders and outsiders alike."-- Tim Miller, Author of Why We Did It and MSNBC Political Analyst
Lccn
2023-932141
Dewey Decimal
306.20973
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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