Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics

Anonymous

ISBN 10: 0701165847 / ISBN 13: 9780701165840

Published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics
• Publisher: Chatto and Windus, London
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701165847
• ISBN 13: 9780701165840
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used; Good

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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.


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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.