Mike Lofgren is The New York Times bestselling author of The Party Is Over. He spent twenty-eight years working in Congress, the last sixteen as a senior analyst on the House and Senate Budget committees. He has appeared on Bill Moyers, Hardball, Chris Hayes, and To the Point, among others, and lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
"Lofgren puts a name and a shape to a problem that has often been
only nebulously defined.... The logic and sophistication of his
argument is hard to resist."
- Salon "The book's greatest value is Lofgren's description of
Washington DC"
- Financial Times
"I could not put this book down. . . . This should be required
reading not just for every student but for every American and
probably every citizen of the world." --Frank Murano "Lofgren
leaves no president or party unscathed. . . Although The Deep State
might sound like an expose on, say, the government's assasination
of JFK, or a cover-up of UFOs, the real story is much more
insidious, realistic and troubling."
-Pittsburg Post-Gazette "With echoes of Dwight D. Eisenhower's
Farewell Address warning in 1961 about the military-industrial
complex, Lofgren offers a compelling vision of what happens when a
democracy becomes a plutocracy, when political dysfunction reigns
supreme over democratic deliberation, and when the war on terrorism
leads to the militarization of our foreign policy. . . A must-read
for anyone interested in the health and sanity of our body
politic."
-Library Journal Praise for The Party Is Over: "A fast-moving,
hard-hitting, dryly witty account of the radicalization of the
Republican Party, the failures of Democratic rivals and the
appalling consequences for the country at large. The Party is Over
is forceful, convincing and seductive."
--The Washington Post "Lofgren's often comedic take on the grim
political reality in Washington is no joke. . . . He wields not
only a rare integrity in this town, but credibility, too."
--The American Conservative "Lofgren describes the Republic Party
as an 'apocalyptic cult' given to lying and delusional thinking. .
. . He writes about how the party took advantage of a profoundly
ignorant electorate, an easily conned and distracted media, and a
cowed Democratic Party to press the ideological struggle in spite
of the deep unpopularity of many of its positions. If all of this
had come from a Nation columnist, it would have been unremarkable.
Instead, it came from a mild, inconspicuous Hill staffer who hadn't
written a political word in thirty years in Washington [and] had
the feel of a long-repressed confession and the authority of an
insider's testimony, like the anti-war views of a decorated
infantry officer."
--George Packer, The New Yorker "A pen in Lofgren's deft hands,
combined with his deep understanding of political history and acid
sense of humor, becomes a sharp, deeply penetrating harpoon aimed
at the heart of his subject. In addition to harpooning the bloated
degenerate Republican whale, Mike harpoons the Democrats by
demonstrating subtly, yet persuasively, how their growing
'uselessness' arose out of an enervating sense of entitlement to
power."
--Counterpunch
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