Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes That Run Our Government - Hardcover

Milbank, Dana

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ISBN 10: 0385517505 ISBN 13: 9780385517508

Verlag: Bantam Dell, 2008

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Washington’s most acerbic (and feared) columnist, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, skewers the peculiar and alien tribal culture of politics.

Deep within the forbidding land encircled by the Washington Beltway lives the tribe known as Homo politicus. Their ways are strange, even repulsive, to civilized human beings; their arcane rites often impenetrable; their language coded and obscure. Violating their complex taboos can lead to sudden, harsh, and irrevocable punishment. Normal Americans have long feared Homo politicus, with good reason. But fearless anthropologist Dana Milbank has spent many years immersed in the dark heart of Washington, D.C., and has produced this indispensable portrait of a bizarre culture whose tribal ways are as hilarious as they are outrageous.
Milbank’s anthropological lens is highly illuminating, whether examining the mating rituals of Homo politicus (which have little to do with traditional concepts of romantic love), demonstrating how status is displayed in the Beltway’s rigid caste system (such as displaying a wooden egg from the White House Easter Egg Roll) or detailing the precise ritual sequence of human sacrifice whenever a scandal erupts (the human sacrificed does not have to be the guiltiest party, just the lower ranked).
Milbank’s lacerating wit mows down the pompous, the stupid, and the corrupt among Democrats, Republicans, reporters, and bureaucrats by naming names. Every appalling anecdote in this book is, alas, true.

Biografía del autor:

DANA MILBANK writes The Washington Post's must-read "Washington Sketch" column, a takedown of the ridiculous and the powerful that appears four times a week. He serves as a political analyst for MSNBC and has appeared on NPR's Sunday "Morning Edition," "Hardball with Chris Matthews," and many other national programs. His tenure as the Post's White House correspondent earned him the title of "the most hated man in the White House Press Corps." Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer has described his work as "trash journalism" and Republican Senator Mitch McConnell terms it "slice and dice" reporting. Meanwhile, Chris Matthews calls Milbank "a wonder at the anthropology of this town and understanding the way the sociology of Washington works today." His collection of columns about the 2000 presidental election, Smashmouth, came out in 2001.

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• Verlag: Bantam Dell
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0385517505
• ISBN 13: 9780385517508
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 276