Washington Is Burning, Andrew Cockburn
Washington Is Burning, Andrew Cockburn
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Washington Is Burning
Corruption and Lies in The Age of Trump

Author: Andrew Cockburn

Narrator: Brian Troxell

Unabridged: 11 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/17/2026

Synopsis

A DEVASTATING ACCOUNT OF AMERICAN MILITARY FOLLY AND POLITICAL DYSFUNCTION BY THE WASHINGTON EDITOR OF HARPER'S MAGAZINE

Washington Is Burning reveals the inner workings of Trump's Washington—a grotesque carnival of corruption. Andrew Cockburn sets fire to US pieties, focusing on the spectacular greed at the heart of the nation's political system.

Graft and self-interest have long typified both Democratic and Republican administrations. Cockburn charts the connections between the American military bureaucracy and the defense industry, which have created a senseless drive for ever-greater spending on arms. After the failed adventures of Afghanistan and Iraq, the Pentagon now seeks fresh rewards through inflating the threat from China and Iran, deploying time-tested techniques to boost the budget, including the invocation of supposedly superior enemy weapons development.

The American empire has reached a watershed. With Trump back in the White House, Washington Is Burning is a must-listen account of unedifying practices in the US capital.

About Andrew Cockburn

Andrew Cockburn is the Washington editor of Harper's and the author of many articles and books on national security, including Kill Chain: Drones and the Rise of High-Tech Assassin, the New York Times Editor's Choice Rumsfeld, and The Threat, which destroyed the myth of Soviet military superiority underpinning the Cold War. He is a regular opinion contributor to the Los Angeles Times and has written for The New York Times, National Geographic, and the London Review of Books, among others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by J Earl on November 17, 2025

Washington Is Burning by Andrew Cockburn is a collection of his previously published essays, many with brief updates attached at the end, that demonstrate how the government (dys)functions. While many of the essays are on topics only tangential to Trump's dismantling of the government in favor of aut......more

Goodreads review by Courtney on March 15, 2026

3 stars Washington is Burning is a political and current affair book that focuses on the Trump Administration as well as historical events that influenced the state of the current government. This book was not what I was expecting based on the synopsis, I was expecting more of a look at the current a......more

Goodreads review by Janine on February 21, 2026

This book is a collection of essays by the author positing of America is at its decline or is it falling. It’s focus on the “carnival of corruption” in Washington is depressing but known and no one seems to care - I think greed is one of the seven deadly sins (but I’m going down the religious route)......more

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