Product Overview
Many Washington books claim to be portraits of power.Madhouse is a stunning portrait of weakness, a ground-zero view of life through the bleary eyes of the soldiers in America's greatest bunker--what President Clinton calls the crown jewel of thefederal penal system --the White House.Birnbaum describes what it's like for these six senior staffers to have the President of the United States as a boss.In this vibrant and penetrating book, we learn why so many bad things happen to the good people who work in the White House.
