the wolves of k street: the secret history of how big money took over big government

＂Two veteran investigative journalists trace the rise of the modern lobbying industry through the three dynasties--one Republican, two Democratic--that have enabled corporate interests to infiltrate American politics and undermine our democracy.＂--

Brody Mullins is an investigative reporter in the Washington, DC, bureau of The Wall Street Journal, where he covers business, lobbying, and campaign finance. He was part of the team that won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for revealing financial conflicts of interest among officials at fifty federal agencies who bought and sold stocks of companies they were tasked with regulating.

Luke Mullins is a senior writer at Washingtonian magazine, where he covers the people and institutions that control the city’s levers of power. He has also written for The Atlantic, Esquire, and Mother Jones, among other publications.