A young pollster named Jack Gance becomes a savvy Washington political insider and eventually a U.S.senator - but not without paying the usual dues, which turns out to be a dirty business.Gance wastes his love on married women, but ultimately learns who his true mistress is: "I had arrived an apprentice from Chicago, but Washington had taken care of that.It was a great city....It gave and gave and gave and gave and expected nothing in return but loyalty."
