The Running Mate

Klein, Joe

ISBN 10: 0385335601 / ISBN 13: 9780385335607

Published by Dial Press/Random House, 2000

About this Item

Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Good, used reading copy about contemporary American politics. Joe Klein takes the reader on 'a ride throught the minefields of politics'. White, red and blue cover is clean, hinged, with crease down the hinge, small crease to lower front corner, light wear to edges. On back side, there is a reddish stain on both corners which extends onto the corners of a few rear pages. Soundly bound. Internals quite clean and unmarked, very good condition. 5.75 x 9 inches. 403 pages. Dial Press/Random House, New York, 2000.

Seller Inventory # 021749

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Running Mate
• Publisher: Dial Press/Random House
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385335601
• ISBN 13: 9780385335607
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction. Political

About this title

Synopsis

Hailed as "astonishingly powerful" by The New York Times, and "written perfectly" by The Washington Post, Joe Klein's #1 bestseller, Primary Colors, was the most-talked-about political novel of the past century. Now acclaimed journalist and author Joe Klein returns with another brilliant and slyly subversive novel set in the gladiatorial arena he knows so well: politics in modern-day America.

U.S. senator Charlie Martin is a hot political property, dashing, honorable, irreverent -- and a decorated Vietnam veteran. The Running Mate follows this brash hero on a wild, exhilarating ride through the minefields of politics as usual.

But as Charlie quickly learns, combat is a cakewalk compared with the battles waged by free men in pursuit of glory and power. For Charlie's political star is beginning to wane ... a bid for the presidency ends in failure ... a young campaign volunteer's father decks him -- in front of the cameras ... a well-kept secret from Charlie's Vietnam days is revealed ... and a woman has entered his life -- one who loves him but is appalled by his life's work.

Suddenly Charlie must confront the two greatest challenges of his life -- a political opponent who has no scruples and a dazzling, unconventional woman who may force him to choose between love and politics. Charlie's dilemma is one that has come to haunt contemporary American politics: Is it possible to be a good politician and a good man?

About the Author

Joe Klein, a journalist for nearly three decades, is currently Washington correspondent for The New Yorker. In addition to Primary Colors, his previous books include Payback: Five Marines After Vietnam and Woody Guthrie: A Life.