Reddit reviews This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America's Gilded Capital

I audio-book so not reading, but "reading". Currently listening to This Town by Mark Leibovich

https://www.amazon.com/This-Town-Parties-Funeral-Plus-Americas/dp/0399170685

I can't speak to Scandal directly, but if you want to go into more real-world examples of "behind-the-scenes drama" check out This Town by Mark Leibovich

Read "This Town".

[Argh. Days pass and I realized I messed up the title. Our Town =/= This Town by Leibovich. Link: https://www.amazon.com/This-Town-Parties-Funeral-Plus-Americas/dp/0399170685]

If you're looking for a funny yet horrifying, compulsively readable book about Washington politics, look no further than This Town by Mark Leibovich

People need to read this book, This Town and understand, Washington is exactly Wall Street. Here's an interview from the author, Mark Leibovich.

For a comical take on the DC culture today, read "This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America's Gilded Capital" by Mark Leibovich. He's a NYTimes political correspondent and he gives you a look into the private world of the people in DC. You could also check out the book "Game Change" which covers the 2008 election of Obama, if you would like an in depth look at a presidential election.

These two are definitely not authoritative or comprehensive explanations of national politics, but they will probably make for much more interesting reading and may pique your interest in researching various topics, procedures etc. on wikipedia afterward.

Here's a fairly recent one.

So anyone who makes less than $125k lives in poverty?

Look, I don't think the choices you're making are necessarily bad if considered in a vacuum. You chose to get a law degree to make more money and live a good life. You ended up in a lot of debt as a result, and pursuing a high paying career is probably the best way to deal with that.

But the narrative that you have to go to DC, slave away for the establishment and build your rep, and then become a lobbyist to spend the rest of your life as a parasite on the ass of the body politic is troubling at best, and vomit-inducing at worst.

I suggest reading This Town by Mark Leibovich. It talks more about the culture you'll be participating in. If you're fine with the system as it's outlined there, Godspeed, enjoy your time at the Correspondent's Dinner and your front row seat to the decline of representative democracy.

Beltway people despise non-Beltway people. Clinton, Obama, and Trump share one thing, they all despise the Beltway people in return. After reading 'This Town', I can see why.