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Jack W. Germond is a political columnist for the Baltimore Sun. He has been Gannett bureau chief in Washington and a columnist and editor for the now-defunct Washington Star. He first appeared on Meet the Press in 1972 and has been a regular on the Today show, CNN, and The McLaughlin Group. He is a regular panelist on Inside Washington. Germond lives in Charles Town, West Virginia.

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Fat Man Fed Up
How American Politics Went Bad
Written by Jack W. Germond

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: July 12, 2005
Price: $13.95

For more than forty years, Jack Germond has been covering politics for Gannett newspapers, the Washington Star, and the Baltimore Sun, and talking politics on the Today show, The McLaughlin Group, and Inside Washington. Now, in Fat Man Fed Up, Germond confronts the most critical issues raised by our election process... Read more >

Fat Man Fed Up
How American Politics Went Bad
Written by Jack W. Germond

Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: July 6, 2004
Price: $9.99

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Fat Man in a Middle Seat
Forty Years of Covering Politics
Written by Jack W. Germond

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $19.00

For more than forty years, Jack Germond enjoyed an extraordinary career in political reporting. With his trademark no-nonsense style and tremendous wit in abundance, Fat Man in a Middle Seat remembers the personalities that dominated national politics during Germond’s career: Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Ronald... Read more >