Separating truth from fiction

If you pitch up here with any regularity the name Mark Leibovich will be familiar to you.

Leibovich’s writing style is hugely appealing - heavily reported with a sarcastic accelerant producing many a slashing aside - so I tried his book about Washington politics, This Town.

Any doubts dissipated early on, as he describes politicians and journalists trying to ‘outgrieve’ each other at a funeral. I was all in.