King Kong Krazy

Douglas Burns has reported on Iowa politics for a variety of Iowa news organizations and publications for more than 20 years. In that time he has written dozens of columns and news stories about Iowa's now infamous U.S. Representative Steve King. King Kong Krazy is a collection of those columns and stories one which reveals the increasingly deranged nature of King's beliefs and rhetoric while also contextualizing the (mostly) rural Iowa district which repeatedly sends King to represent it in the U.S. Congress. Taken as a whole this collection of material paints a fuller picture of one of the more divisive figures in modern politics as well as revealing Burns to be at times a prescient canary in a cornfield with regard to the rural and rust-belt resentment that brought Steve King-like rhetoric and policy to our national politics and ultimately to the White House.