How New Media Poisoned Politics

Is there a place where the vanity, self-promotion and fabricated affection on Facebook coalesce in real life? Mark Leibovich finds it in Washington. His book This Town, about the city's permanent political establishment, is part insider tell-all and part satire. It captures a moment in time when new media has elevated narcissism from the back rooms of the nation's capital onto cable and Twitter.

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