Title: a sad and boring read
Product review: I guess that I was disappointed. I had heard that this book was the posthumous memoir of a Washington insider and I was kind of expecting remorse, or the possibility of redemption, or something. Whatever I was looking for, I did not find it. The author seems to fancy herself clever and an expert on human relations but all I got was shallow observations and affected prose. She goes on and on, for example, about "V-shaped smiles" -- a certain insincere facial expression unique to the Beltway-- but not without name dropping the literary genius who coined the term. At times I found myself wondering, "Did this anecdote really happen, or is it just a device to tie into the next section of the narrative?" I get it :"Life (in Washington) is like high school." I'll do that insight one better: 'Washington' is a John Hughes movie about high school -minus the entertainment.
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