![]() The writer’s recent move from the New York Times to the Atlantic meant that he was now free to attend the annual event, which the Times has skipped for years on account of the ethically questionable intimacy between the officials and watchdogs and corporate donors who flock to the gala. Back in April, when Washington’s media-political class gathered for the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner, I ran into none other than Leibovich himself in a corridor of the Washington Hilton. ![]() Not that the traumatic decade has ended the suck-up city rituals he described - or the excitement-masquerading-as-shame that many of the participants felt about having their vanities picked apart in a bestselling book. ![]() But after what the country has been through since then, does anybody think on-the-make Capitol Hill PR hacks and attention-seeking party hosts are the republic’s biggest dangers anymore? ![]() T his Town, Mark Leibovich’s 2013 portrait of the smarmy, sycophantic Washington of the early 21st century, famously pulled back the curtain on the chumminess and self-promotion and general unseemliness of what he called our gilded capital. ![]()
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