Mark Leibovich may be the only person to conduct interviews inside both the White House and Tom Brady’s top-floor Manhattan apartment.
The New York Times Magazine correspondent won acclaim for his unsparing portrait of Washington, D.C.’s political culture in his 2013 book, This Town. Five years later, his newest book, set to be released Sept. 4, takes on the NFL, with a heavy focus on the New England Patriots.
Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times chronicles the last four years of “peak football” in an amusing narrative that weaves from not one but two of Tom Brady’s homes to NFL owners meetings to a scotch-filled visit to the infamous bus of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones — not to mention encounters with President Donald Trump.