Summary of Mark Leibovich's This Town

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#1 Russert, who was also the Washington bureau chief for NBC, died after suffering a sudden coronary thrombosis. He was pronounced dead at Sibley Memorial Hospital. He was 84. He had struggled with his weight and was looking tired, but his many friends had been worrying about the stress he was under.

#2 Tim was adored in that unmistakable vintage of Washington adored that incorporated fear and need and sucking up. You needed to be friends with Tim, the closer the better, as many people advertised with deft turns of posthumous networking.

#3 Tim Russert was a principal in the celebrity-industrial complex, and he was especially attuned to the cultural erogenous zones of powerful men. He spoke endlessly about dads and sons, sports, and Springsteen. He gave on-air shout-outs to Joe DiMaggio, who never missed a Meet the Press.

#4 In Washington, the spotlight was on Tim Russert, the leading balloon lost, as everyone ostentatiously deflated. Obama and McCain sat together at the request of the Russert family, who wanted the event to provide a spectacle of unity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822549081

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Russert, who was also the Washington bureau chief for NBC, died after suffering a sudden coronary thrombosis. He was pronounced dead at Sibley Memorial Hospital. He was 84. He had struggled with his weight and was looking tired, but his many friends had been worrying about the stress he was under.

#2

Tim was adored in that unmistakable vintage of Washington adored that incorporated fear and need and sucking up. You needed to be friends with Tim, the closer the better, as many people advertised with deft turns of posthumous networking.

#3

Tim Russert was a principal in the celebrity-industrial complex, and he was especially attuned to the cultural erogenous zones of powerful men. He spoke endlessly about dads and sons, sports, and Springsteen. He gave on-air shout-outs to Joe DiMaggio, who never missed a Meet the Press.

#4

In Washington, the spotlight was on Tim Russert, the leading balloon lost, as everyone ostentatiously deflated. Obama and McCain sat together at the request of the Russert family, who wanted the event to provide a spectacle of unity.

#5

In Georgetown, the morning begins at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, where the trinity of pols, People on TV, and permanent Washington types arrives. Obama is missing a meeting with the national intelligence director.

#6

Schumer was known to be camera-shy, even by senatorial standards. He was joined in an extended cluster outside the church by his colleagues, Christopher Dodd and Joe Biden, who were both running for president earlier in the year and were carrying rosary beads into the church.

#7

After Tim’s funeral, the green room attendant Saadalla Mohamed Aly, who had known him for many years, was devastated. He could not attend the funeral, but he sent his condolences.

#8

Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic National Committee chairman, is a professional best friend to Bill Clinton. He is so committed to his art that he even stopped off at a fund-raiser on the way home from the hospital with his wife, Dorothy, after she gave birth to their newborn son.

#9

When Tim Russert announced on live TV that Obama was the Democratic nominee, the Clintons were enraged. They believed that Russert had been much tougher on Hillary than on her opponents.

#10

The Kennedy Center funeral is broadcast live on MSNBC. The service is a star turn for Luke: funny, sentimental, and poised. He will be hired by NBC soon after.

#11