{"product_id":"the-wolves-of-k-street","title":"The Wolves of K Street","description":"\u003ch3 class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"\u003e\u003cspan id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large celwidget\" data-csa-c-id=\"ofodlx-6r55b3-flagkl-8kj3j4\" data-cel-widget=\"productTitle\"\u003eThe Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large celwidget\" data-csa-c-id=\"ofodlx-6r55b3-flagkl-8kj3j4\" data-cel-widget=\"productTitle\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA dazzling and infuriating portrait of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003efifty years of corporate influence in Washington, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Wolves of K Street\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction—irresistibly dramatic, spectacularly timely, explosive in its revelations, and absolutely impossible to put down.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the 1970s, Washington’s center of power began to shift away from elected officials in big marble buildings to a handful of savvy, handsomely paid operators who didn’t answer to any fixed constituency. The cigar-chomping son of an influential congressman, an illustrious political fixer with a weakness for modern art, a Watergate-era dirty trickster, the city’s favorite cocktail party host—these were the sort of men who now ran Washington.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver four decades, they’d chart new ways to turn their clients’ cash into political leverage, abandoning favor-trading in smoke-filled rooms for increasingly sophisticated tactics, such as “shadow lobbying,” where underground campaigns sparked seemingly organic public outcries to pressure lawmakers into taking actions that would ultimately benefit corporate interests rather than ordinary citizens. With billions of dollars at play, these lobbying dynasties enshrined in Washington a pro-business consensus that would guide the country’s political leaders—Democrats and Republicans alike. A good lobbyist could ghostwrite a bill or even secretly kill a piece of legislation supported by the president, both houses of Congress, and a majority of Americans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet nothing lasts forever. Amid a populist backlash to the soaring inequality these influence peddlers helped usher in, DC’s pro-business alliance suddenly began to fray. And while the lobbying establishment would continue to invent new ways to influence Washington, the men who’d built K Street would soon find themselves under legal scrutiny, on the verge of financial collapse, or worse. One would turn up dead behind the eighteenth green of an exclusive golf club, with a $1,500 bottle of wine at his feet and a bullet in his head.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Landmark Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46550887039216,"sku":"9781982120597","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0586\/1385\/8477\/files\/image_302bd9cb-5ee1-4416-9048-5250e1151bd3.jpg?v=1725501706","url":"https:\/\/shop.landmarkbooksellers.com\/products\/the-wolves-of-k-street","provider":"Landmark Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}