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Politics 5 1 /16 x 7 3 /14 240 pp.
Rights: W00 Pub history: Viking hc 978-0-670-02626-5
On sale: 8/27/2013
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“ Written with the feel of a long-repressed
confession and the authority of an insider’s
testimony, like the anti-war views of a
decorated infantry soldier.”
—The New Yorker
“ Fast-moving, hard-hitting,
dryly witty . . . The Party Is Over is
forceful, convincing, and seductive.”
—The Washington Post
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The New York Times–bestselling
manifesto about America’s broken
political system and how it got that way
new york times bestseller
The Party Is Over
How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and
the Middle Class Got Shafted
Mike Lofgren
Mike Lofgren was once a proud Republican. When he came to
Washington in the early 1980s, the party was controlled by what
was mostly a rational group of people with a basic grasp of economics
and foreign policy. So what happened since then? How
did the party of Lincoln become the party of lunatics? After some
thirty years in Congress, Lofgren, exasperated by the circus of the
debt-ceiling debate, stepped down from his position on the Senate
Budget Committee in disgust in 2011.
Written by a refreshingly skeptical insider, The Party Is Over
is an electrifying manifesto for the growing number of Americans
who are appalled by our politicians and fed up with their pandering
to corporate interests. Wry, trenchant, and highly persuasive,
Lofgren offers clear suggestions for how to break through the
gridlock and reverse political dysfunction in Washington.
n A New York Times bestseller
n Includes a new introduction on the aftermath of the 2012
election season
n Mike Lofgren’s original article, “Goodbye to All That: Reflections of
a GOP Operative,” appeared in Truthout online and received
1 million hits, temporarily bringing down the website
n For readers of David Brock’s Blinded by the Right, Ron Paul’s
Revolution: A Manifesto, and Thomas Frank’s Pity the Billionaire
Mike lofgRen spent twenty-eight years in Congress, the
last sixteen as a senior analyst on the House and Senate Budget
committees. He holds two degrees in history and received a
Fulbright scholarship. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.