Primary Colors

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ISBN 10: 0701165847 / ISBN 13: 9780701165840

Published by Random House, 1996

About this Item

366 pages. Dust cover marked. Page edges foxedA brilliant and penetrating look behind the scenes of modern American politic s, Primary Colors is a funny, wise, and dramatic story with characters and event s that resemble some familiar, real-life figures. When a former congressional ai.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Primary Colors
• Publisher: Random House
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701165847
• ISBN 13: 9780701165840
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

A brilliant and penetrating look behind the scenes of modern American politics, Primary Colors is a funny, wise, and dramatic story with characters and events that resemble some familiar, real-life figures. When a former congressional aide becomes part of the staff of the governor of a small Southern state, he watches in horror, admiration, and amazement, as the governor mixes calculation and sincerity in his not-so-above-board campaign for the presidency.


From the Hardcover edition.

Review

The famous -- or infamous -- roman a clef about the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign. You've read the hype; now read the book.

Primary Colors has its rich rewards as a savvy insider's look at life on the stump. But it travels far beyond mere gossip and expose and discovers a convincing world of its own, peopled by smart cookies, nutcases, and wheeler-dealers, whose public and private lives illuminate each other -- sometimes by casting dark shadows. This story spans the novelistic spectrum from bedroom farce to high moral drama, and it paints a picture of the political state of the nation so vivid and authentic that one finds in it the deepest kind of truth -- the kind of truth that only fiction can tell.