By Robert Draper
In When the Tea social gathering got here to Town, Robert Draper offers the definitive account of what may perhaps change into the worst congressional time period in usa historical past. As he did in writing approximately President George W. Bush in Dead Certain, Draper burrows deep within his topic, gaining cooperation from the most important avid gamers, and offers an insider’s publication like not anyone else can—a colourful, unsparingly unique, yet evenhanded narrative of the way the home of Representatives turned a home of sick reputation. as a result of the bitterly divided political surroundings during which we are living, this literary window at the behind the scenes machinations of the home of Representatives is either pleasing and timely—revealing the home in complete, from the method of the way legislation are made (and to that end, no longer made) to the main eye-popping solid of lawmakers Washington has ever seen.
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