{"product_id":"this-is-how-it-starts-paperback","title":"This Is How It Starts - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGrant Ginder\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the bestselling author of The People We Hate at the Wedding, Grant Ginder's phenomenal debut novel follows one post-collegiate idealist on his quest to fit in with--and then distance himself from--capital hill's up-andcoming political and social elite who work hard but play harder.Meet Taylor Mark: a recent college graduate who has moved to Washington, DC, to work for John Grayson, the less-than-brilliant congressman from his home district in Southern California. Washington is a city where deals are made behind closed doors, and there's no one better to teach Taylor--and Grayson--that lesson than Chase Latham, Taylor's former college roommate and the son of a powerful lobbyist. To Chase, the beltway's bars, restaurants, townhouses, and government offices are one big, debauched playground--a land of milk and honey where secrets are currency, the sex is bipartisan, and rules and boundaries are obsolete. It's a place, Taylor quickly discovers, where the line between right and wrong is razor-thin and loyalty based on college friendship quickly becomes a thing of the past. This Is How It Starts is a sharp and incisively written novel about how far one young man will go to be an insider in a town that is unyielding in what it will take from a person in exchange for granting him a margin of knowledge and power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrant Ginder graduated from the university of Pennsylvania, where he edited 34th Street, the school's humor and culture magazine. He currently works as a speechwriting associate at the Center for American Progress, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 9.28 x 6.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 02, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53464181047603,"sku":"9781416595595","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/nVWyRHQ02O9781416595595.webp?v=1781541538","url":"https:\/\/rbangel-store.myshopify.com\/products\/this-is-how-it-starts-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}