Michael MacCambridge is an author, journalist and TV commentator, whose books have included the acclaimed America's Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured A Nation and Chuck Noll: His Life's Work. For eight years a columnist and critic at the Austin American-Statesman, MacCambridge was later a contributor to A New Literary History of America, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, and GQ. The father of two children, Miles and Ella, he lives in Austin.
"""Many books promise to reveal 'how Washington really works.' THE BIG BREAK actually does--by zooming in not on the principals--the politicians and talking heads--but instead on the worker bees: the staffers who make our capital work each day, a hard-to-decipher mix of craven opportunists and the true believers who are sometimes one and the same. [It] can only be understood through the eyes of Ben Terris, one of the most principled and perceptive reporters in Washington, who masterfully guides us through the destabilizing decade that followed the first Black presidency.""--Wesley Lowery, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and The Cost of Progress"