We're with Nobody: Two Insiders Reveal the Dark Side of American Politics by Alan Huffman

We're with Nobody: Two Insiders Reveal the Dark Side of American Politics by Alan Huffman

In politics, finding the dirt is a multimillion-dollar business.

It's called opposition research--oppo to insiders. Few Americans are aware of its existence, yet oppo has become an integral part of the campaign process, hastening the implosion of countless office-seekers around the country.

For nearly two decades, former journalists Alan Huffman and Michael Rejebian have been uncovering the buried truths about political candidates, from presidential appointees all the way down to local school-board hopefuls. We're with Nobody is the eye-opening account of their life as opposition researchers--a remarkable adventure across the American political landscape and through the often seamy underbelly of U.S. politics. From doing battle with reluctant, sometimes purposefully misleading bureaucrats to arriving in an unmarked police car for a clandestine meeting on the New Jersey waterfront, We're with Nobody offers readers a revealing slice of national and political life: a close-up look at today's political process, the fallible men and women we often choose to represent us and the little-understood industry of trying to bring candidates' weaknesses to light.

--Publishers Weekly

Alan Huffman is the author of the nonfiction books Open Season (with Michael Rejebian), Sultana, Mississippi in Africa, and the photo-essay book Ten Point: Deer Camp in the Mississippi Delta. He has contributed to The Los Angeles Times; The New York Times; The Washington Post Magazine; Lost; National Wildlife; Outside; The Atlanta Journal-Constitution; The Oxford American; Preservation; Smithsonian; and numerous other publications. He has also worked as an editor at VanityFair.com. He divides his time between Bolton, Mississippi and Brooklyn, New York.

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ISBN 13	9780062015778
ISBN 10	006201577X
Title	We're with Nobody: Two Insiders Reveal the Dark Side of American Politics
Author	Alan Huffman
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2012-01-24
Number of pages	208
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