South Beach Author Michael Grunwald’s The New New Deal Turns Washington, D.C., on Its Head

By Tim Elfrink |

In our nation’s capital, real consensus happens as often as a noncreepy Rick Scott grin. Yet for the past couple of years, everyone in Washington, D.C., has agreed on this: President Obama‘s mammoth 2009 stimulus was kind of laughable.

Green-energy initiatives? Saving America from financial ruin? Hah!

Last week, though, that conversation turned on a dime. The reason? A new book from a writer based about as far, culturally speaking, from the Hill as possible: the heart of South Beach.

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