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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Lloyd Green

Mad House: new book exposes Capitol Hill’s absurdity and dysfunction

The US Capitol
The 118th Congress was a ‘dysfunctional legislative body populated by a bunch of clowns’. Photograph: J David Ake/Getty Images

Annie Karni, once of Politico, covers Congress for the New York Times. Her colleague Luke Broadwater, once a Pulitzer prize winner for the Baltimore Sun, makes the Trump administration his beat.

As co-authors, at book length of Mad House, they deliver a sharp and wit-filled portrait of Capitol Hill dysfunction. Generally unflattering, Karni and Broadwater dedicate their book on modern US politics to “the leakers, gossips, and busybodies who populate the halls of Congress”.

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