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  • Fresh Air, May 23, 2006

  • By: Terry Gross
  • Length: 51 mins

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Summary

Journalist Juliet Eilperin on her new book Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship is Poisoning the U.S. House of Representatives. Eilperin is the former Congressional correspondent for the Washington Post. She explores how extreme partisanship is tearing apart Congress. She writes that warlike tactics, manipulation and strategic takeovers have replaced compromise in the House. Currently, Eilperin is a National News Reporter for the Post.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Theft: A Love Story by Australian writer and twice winner of the Booker Prize Peter Carey.

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