Understanding the urgent need for a deeply thoughtful, balanced book to explain our nationwide political practice, Dave Barry hasn’t even come close. Though he himself has covered many promotions, work for president many times, and run for cover at the rainy inauguration of George W. Bush (the man will spare nothing at all for his art), Barry provides rather outdone himself. Below the Beltway includes Barry’s stirring account of how the United States was born, including his version of an adequately created about Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway Declaration (When in the course of human events it behooves us, the people, not to question “What can our nation do for all of us, anyhow?” but instead whether we have anything to fear except fear itself) and a revised Constitution (Section II: The House of Representatives shall be composed of people who own at least two dark fits and have not been indicted lately). Dave also breaks the income-tax code and explains the development(s) of government, congressional hearing complications, and the consistent rumors from the influence of capital in the Capitol. Among various other civic efforts, his tour of Washington D.C. should end college class trips permanently.