PENGUIN</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b><i>The</i> <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Party Is Over </i>delivers a no-holds-barred?expos? of who really wields power in Washington</b><br> ?<br> Every four years?? tempers are tested and marriages fray as Americans head to the polls to cast their votes. But does anyone really care what we think? Has our vaunted political system become one big?? expensive?? painfully scripted reality TV show? In this powerful expose of the sins and excesses of Beltwayland?? a longtime Republican party insider argues that we have become an oligarchy in form if not in name. Hooked on war?? genuflecting to big donors?? in thrall to discredited economic theories and utterly bereft of a moral compass?? America??s governing classes are selling their souls to entrenched interest while our bridges collapse?? wages?? stagnate?? and our