Mark Leibovich

Leibovich is a political analyst for NBC and MSNBC, and appears regularly on Morning Joe, Deadline with Nicolle Wallace and Meet the Press. Previously, Leibovich was a political contributor to CBS News. He has also appeared on numerous late-night shows, including CBS's Late Night with Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Trevor Noah and HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher and On the Record with Bob Costas, and Showtime's The Circus.[9]

In addition to his political writing, Leibovich has also written:

• The New Imperialists, a collection of profiles of technology pioneers, published January 2002, by Prentice Hall Press.[10]
• This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral – Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking – in America's Gilded Capital
• Citizens of the Green Room, an anthology of Leibovich's profiles in the New York Times and Washington Post, published November 2014 by Blue Rider Press.[11]
• Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times, a behind-the-scenes look at the owners and commissioner of the National Football League, published September 2018, by Penguin Books.[12]
• Thank You for your Servitude: Donald Trump’s Washington and the Price of Submission published July 2022

Leibovich is the author of This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral – Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking! – in America's Gilded Capital.[13] The book debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list in July 2013,[14] and remained on the list for 12 weeks.[15] Leibovich discussed This Town on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,[16] ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos,[17] Charlie Rose,[18] PBS's Moyers and Company[19] and NPR's Weekend Edition.[20] He also appeared as a contestant on NPR's Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me.[21] In a February 2014 edition of Jeopardy!, This Town was the answer to a clue in the category “2013 Bestsellers.”[22]

In advance of its July 2013 release, Politico published an article describing This Town as a "chronicle" of the "incestuous ecology of insider Washington". Leibovich, according to the story, is nicknamed "Leibo," and the book's original sub-title was "The Way it Works in Suck Up City".[23] Fareed Zakaria as reviewer for the Washington Post praises it as the "hottest political book of the summer", containing " juicy anecdotes" and a tell-tale core of "corruption and dysfunction".[24] Richard McGregor of the Financial Times described Leibovich as "like a modern-day Balzac".[25]

In his book review for The New York Times, novelist Christopher Buckley described This Town as a series of “mini-masterpieces of politico-anthropological sociology".[26] The Economist said This Town "may be the most pitiless examination of America’s permanent political class that has ever been conducted".[27]

This Town was released in paperback in April 2014 in conjunction with the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, which Leibovich has described as "an abomination".[28]

The book attracted controversy when an aide to Representative Darrell Issa was fired for sharing reporters’ e-mails with Leibovich without their knowledge.[29]

Leibovich is the author of Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times. The book looks at a 4-year period in the NFL where Mark follows the most powerful people in the NFL, including commissioner Roger Goodell, quarterback Tom Brady, and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. The book also looks at the controversies surrounding the NFL such as the long-term health hazards, football's impact on concussion and brain health, and how politics have crossed into the sport.[30]