"Toss aside the formalities, and say good-bye to weeks of planning. [This guide] is overflowing with inspiration and great ideas for throwing fun, simple parties of every kind in minimal time"--P. [4] of cover.

Even in this most partisan and dysfunctional of eras, we can all agree on one thing: Washington is broken. Politicians take increasingly inflexible and extreme positions, leading to gridlock, partisan warfare, and the sense that our seats of government are nothing but cesspools of hypocrisy, childishness, and waste. The shocking reality, though, is that modern polarization was a deliberate project carried out by Democratic and Republican activists....