When the Tea Party Came to Town: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives' Most Combative, Dysfunctional, and Infuriating Term in Modern History

English

ISBN: 1451642105

EAN: 9781451642100

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Political/Political Science / American Government / Legislative Branch/Law / Government / General/

Publisher: Free Press

Release Date: 04/24/2012

Synopsis: When the Tea Party Came to Town demonstrates Robert Drapers uncanny ability to ferret out news-making tidbits and provides us with the first look at this game-changing Congresssure to be a classic work.

In When the Tea Party Came to Town, Robert Draper delivers the definitive account ofwhat may turn out to be the worst congressional term in United States history. As hedid in writing about President George W. Bush in Dead Certain, Draper burrows deepinside his subject, gaining cooperation from the major players, and provides an insidersbook like no one else cana colorful, unsparingly detailed, but evenhanded narrativeof how the House of Representatives became a house of ill repute. Because of the bitterlydivided political atmosphere in which we live, this literary window on thebackstage machinations of the House of Representatives is both captivating andtimelyrevealing the House in full, from the process of how laws are made (and in thiscase, not made) to the most eye-popping cast of lawmakers Washington has ever seen.

When the Tea Party Came to Town: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives' Most Combative, Dysfunctional, and Infuriating Term in Modern History

Illustrated: No

Format: eBook - EPUB

Pages: 320