{"product_id":"fools-on-the-hill-the-hooligans-saboteurs-conspiracy-theorists-and-dunces-who-burned-down-the-house","title":"Fools on the Hill: The Hooligans, Saboteurs, Conspiracy Theorists, and Dunces Who Burned Down the House","description":"\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDana Milbank is a nationally syndicated op-ed columnist with The Washington Post and a New York Times bestselling author. \n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e His column appears in the Post and hundreds of other newspapers. Milbank also has provided political commentary for MSNBC, CNN and various other TV and radio outlets, and he is the author of four books on politics, including the New York Times bestseller \"The Destructionists\" and the national bestseller \"Homo Politicus.\" \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Before starting the column, Milbank was a White House reporter for the Post and won the White House Correspondents' Association Beckman award for \"repeated excellence in White House coverage.\" He previously worked as a political reporter in the Post's Style section, as a senior editor of the New Republic, and as a congressional and foreign correspondent of the Wall Street Journal. He is a graduate of Yale University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"There is a fine and elegant line between humor and horror, and no one walks it any better than Dana Milbank. Literally no writer in Washington is better suited to answering the GOP's ever-present 'How Did We Get Here?' question. It's all right here in \n\u003ci\u003eThe Destructionist\u003c\/i\u003es, in all its depressing, spiraling detail - and yet so thoroughly enjoyable, too. That's the Milbank Miracle, right there. I devoured this.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eMark Leibovich\u003c\/b\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis Town and Thank you for Your Servitude\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Dana Milbank is a sizzling hot observer of American politics. His writing is irreverent, provocative and, whether or not you agree with his point of view -- always entertaining.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eJonathan Karl\u003c\/b\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFront Row at the Trump Show and Betrayal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"In this painful, powerful, and deeply necessary account of the devolution of the GOP, one of the nation's most trenchant political observers chronicles the growing threats to our democracy. Dana Milbank has written a riveting history and a bracing warning about the challenges we continue to face. How did we get here? Where did the epic failures, divisions, and dysfunctions in our politics come from? Milbank argues that Donald Trump, for all his faults, didn't create this noxious environment -- he was the monster that the GOP had been creating for more than a quarter century.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eCharles J. Sykes\u003c\/b\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow the Right Lost its Mind\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"In this stunning historical review of the modern Republican Party, Dana Milbank chronicles the GOP's race to the bottom in undermining faith in government by destroying long held and established democratic norms and principles. From swift boating a presidential candidate to sparking the birtherism movement of America's first Black President and the non stop repeats of the 'Big Lie, ' Milbank proves that the Republicans' war is with democratic institutions and perhaps with democracy itself.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eDonna Brazile, former Interim Chair, Democratic National Committee\u003c\/b\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHacks: The Inside Story of Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"With characteristic wit, Dana Milbank reveals how, step-by-step, characters like Newt Gingrich and Karl Rove (bolstered by a barrage of dark money and rightwing media) replaced normal politics with character assassination, violence, endemic lying and racial division. Trump was the inevitable result after the party of limited government morphed over decades into one obsessed with holding power at all costs. Dana documents how Trump accelerated the downward spiral, making it 'safe' to be a bigot and 'weaponizing' conspiracy theories. If you want to understand Trump, this account of Republicans' destruction of democracy, truth and decency is essential reading.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eJennifer Rubin\u003c\/b\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWashington Post columnist and author of Resistance: How Women Saved Democracy from Donald Trump\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A thorough and scathing account of how the Republican Party fell prey to Trumpism.\"-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPraise for \n\u003ci\u003eThe Destructionists\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Dana Milbank is one of the most exhilarating writers covering Washington today. When I see his by-line in my morning paper, I know my day is getting off to a bracing start.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eChristopher Buckley\u003c\/b\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eauthor of Thank You For Smoking\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Who better to unpack the unserious insanity of the MAGA shock jock caucus than Dana Millbank, the D.C. columnist with the wryest wit and sharpest insight of them all? Dana will have you laughing while you cry for our republic.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e -- \n\u003cb\u003eJoy-Ann Reid\u003c\/b\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTV host and author of The New York Times bestselling Medger and Myrlie\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"If you crossed Dante's Inferno with Hieronymus Bosch's paintings of depravity you would get Dana Milbank's astounding account of the Fools on the Hill who have sacked America's House of Representatives. Milbank, a seasoned political columnist for the Washington Post, is a wonderful writer and his eye-witness reporting on the meltdown of democracy is mesmerizing. Equal parts funny and horrifying, it will make you both laugh and weep.\"-- \n\u003cb\u003eJane Mayer\u003c\/b\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eauthor of Dark Money and Chief Washington Correspondent, The New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the halls of Congress, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Dana Milbank exposes the chaotic, incompetent and dysfunctional state of the current Republican House--a confederacy of dunces, united by paranoia and conspiracy theories, blundering from one self-inflicted crisis to the next. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Republicans took control of the House in the 2022 midterm elections with a historically slim majority, mayhem began immediately. \"Failed completely.\" \"Can't govern.\" \"Broken.\" \"Lunatics.\" \"Embarrassing.\" \"Bunch of idiots.\" And that's how House Republicans described \n\u003ci\u003ethemselves\u003c\/i\u003e. Take it from Marjorie Taylor Greene, who said in May 2024 that \"many Americans in general are sick and tired and fed up with a feckless, useless Republican Party, a conference that does nothing.\" This is the House of George Santos and Jim Jordan, of Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz. They investigated space aliens and Hunter Biden's art dealer. They punched and they groped. They championed Confederates and insurrectionists--while disparaging the military and sabotaging the economy. They tied up the House so often with far-right fantasies that they produced what was arguably the least effective session of Congress in history. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Dana Milbank, widely-read \n\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e columnist, spent a year reporting from inside the Capitol, watching the circus from the front row. The result, \n\u003ci\u003eFools on the Hill\u003c\/i\u003e, is simultaneously horrifying and laugh-out-loud funny. 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