Books by Mike Lofgren
D.C.'s sharp-tongued truth teller is back with a bracing reminder that for all the preening, grandstanding, and money grubbing of the presidential race, the politicians we elect have as little ability to shift policy as Communist Party apparatchiks in the old Soviet Union.
Welcome to Mike Lofgren's Washington, D.C.--a "This Town" where the political theater that is endlessly tweeted and blogged about has nothing to do with actual decision making. Bernie and Trump are just window dressing. Real power lies in the Deep State, Washington's shadowy power elite, which is in the pocket of corporate interests and dependent on Silicon Valley, whose data-collecting systems enable the U.S. government to spy on our every swipe and click.
Drawing on insider knowledge gleaned over the course of three decades on the Hill, Lofgren offers a rousing wake-up call and urges all Americans with an interest in the country's future to demand that the politicians they elect stop genuflecting to big donors and start respecting the basic premises of the Constitution.