All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President

James Carville; Mary Matalin; Peter Knobler

ISBN 10: 0679431039 / ISBN 13: 9780679431039

Published by Random House, New York, 1994

About this Item

New York: Random House, 1994. First Edition, later printing. Fine/Fine. Fine later printing of the first edition, SIGNED by both Mary Matalin and James Carville. Very clean white boards with red metallic donkey and elephant on cover, black cloth spine with silver lettering. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers - no previous owner markings. Flat signed by Matalin and Carville on the title page. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 493 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.

Seller Inventory # 028768

Bibliographic Details

• Title: All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President
• Publisher: Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679431039
• ISBN 13: 9780679431039
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, Later Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • History
  • Political
  • SIGNED Editions

About this title

Synopsis

The presidential campaign managers for George Bush and Bill Clinton offer a revealing study of how presidential campaigns are really run, while sharing a frank and personal account of their own romantic relationship. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo. First serial, Newsweek.

Reviews

The economy, stupid. Bimbo eruptions. Chicken George. These and other highlights of the 1993 presidential campaign are recounted here by those who crafted these buzzwords, or at least gave them the most "spin." Bush campaign director Matalin and Clinton strategist Carville intrigued the world with their cross-party-and some say heretical-dating during the campaign, but upon reading this book, you understand the sparks. Both are colorful and ambitious, and both love the rather arcane world of top-level political campaigning. However, there's little of their romance here (they married after the election). Their memoir is more a juicy compendium of political insider info. We learn how both campaigns felt about Ross Perot; whether Clinton is really as testy as Bob Woodward says (Carville briefly describes Clinton's habit of SMO, or Standard Morning Outburst); and what Barbara Bush is really like (she's the only one who could stop the Bush campaign team from its ingrained swearing). Still, it's hard not to suspect most of the testimony here-after all, these people are paid to "stay on the message," even if it's untrue. An ominous testament to the rise of "handler" style over substance, this book is for all political collections.
--Judy Quinn, formerly with "Library Journal"
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