View of the Dome - Paperback

by Theresa Rebeck (Author)

This humor-filled tale of political corruption ingratitude and revenge concerns an idealistic young Washington attorney who persuades her former law professor a man of lofty rhetoric to run for Congress. Ideals shrivel in the Washington air as the professor is swept into an insider's circle that includes a leering power-drunk senator and a slinky Southern power broker. When the heroine is snubbed by the politically powerful at a fancy restaurant her hurt feelings precipitate an all-out war. She promotes a sex scandal that unexpectedly makes her the darling of the religious right.