The year is 2002. Weekly newsmagazines dominate the political agenda in New York and Washington. A young journalist named Michael M. Hastings is a twenty-two- year-old intern at The Magazine , wet behind the ears, the only one in the office who s actually read his coworker s books. He will stop at nothing to turn his internship into a full-time position, and he s figured out just whom to impress: Nishant Patel, the international editor, and Sanders...