Ever the observant journalist and effortless storyteller, Yglesias takes us from the political event to the very heartbeat of the people creating news and culture unfolding before us the human comedy, in all of its splendor, pitfalls and contradictions. Urbane, ironic, witty and extremely original, these stories are classic Yglesias narratives published in The New Yorker and other leading magazines over the course of the last twenty years of his life.