The Beltway Bible: A Totally Serious A-Z Guide to Our No-Good, Corrupt, Incompetent, Terrible, Depressing, and Sometimes Hilarious Government (Paperback)

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The Beltway Bible: A Totally Serious A-Z Guide to Our No-Good, Corrupt, Incompetent, Terrible, Depressing, and Sometimes Hilarious Government (Paperback)

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Every American’s owner’s manual for Washington D.C., our functionally dysfunctional seat of government.

How is legislation crafted? How do you lose an election? What do “bundler,” “quorum call” and “omnibus” mean? Why do some of the White House’s most important meetings occur at a Starbucks? Why are Washington insiders obsessed with something called Jumbo Slice? What, exactly, is a “skintern?”

Eliot Nelson, one of Washington’s funniest and most admired young journalists, knows how the sausage factory works and The Beltway Bible is every citizen's must-have owner’s manual.

Arranged from A to Z, The Beltway Bible provides an insider's perspective of politics and government, breaking down both into easily-digested entries on subjects like how legislation is formed, the scope of the president’s power, and an overview of federal agencies. Nelson also looks at D.C.'s less-well-known power structures: the internal pecking order of White House aides, the high school cafeteria power struggles behind party invites and the petty congressional arguments over how highway on-ramps are named.

The Beltway Bible makes our complex government accessible in a way that will please everyone from Jon Stewart to John Doe.

ELIOT NELSON is a political reporter and editor at The Huffington Post's Washington, D.C. bureau where he covers campaigns, Congress and the intersection of culture and politics. He is the author of HuffPost Hill, a daily humorous political tip sheet with over 250,000 subscribers both inside and outside the Beltway. He has also helped developed a number of products for The Huffington Post, including a popular series of satirical political videos and The Morning Email, the site's 1,000,000 subscriber general interest newsletter. Born and raised in New York City, he is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Product Details ISBN: 9781250099259
ISBN-10: 1250099250
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Publication Date: September 27th, 2016
Pages: 432
Language: English