Primary Colors : A Novel of Politics (Paperback)

from DarthDeverell

Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics, Joe Klein's anonymously published novel based on a fictionalized Clinton '92 campaign, covers the drama and day-to-day victories and defeats of politicking in the early 1990s. Those familiar with Clinton's campaign will enjoy finding the references to politica...

from trile1000

Primary Colors was written by Joe Klein, a reporter that was following the 1992 Clinton campaign. With characters based on Clinton's inner circle, the book is a behind-the-scenes look at what happens during a political campaign. We follow Henry Burton, a young idealistic former congressional aide...

from MiaCulpa

I read "Primary Colors" way back when the author was Anonymous; at the time I hoped the author was Al Gore or Dan Quail or similar. Turns out Anonymous was some random bloke, which took some of the gloss off the book for me. An ever so slightly fictionalised retelling of Bill Clinton's 1992 Presi...

from lunza

The story of Jack Stanton, a Democratic candidate for president, as seen through the eyes of a campaign worker who starts off very impressed with Stanton's political skills and interest in the process, and ends up a little disillusioned with his lasciviousness and inability to admit to it. Also, ...

from andyray

The Stauntons in the book parrot the Clintons in real life, not just in their physical appetites, but in their political hardnesw. Jack Stantion loves strange young pssy and donuts (just as does Bill Clinton), and his love of pressing the flesh and sharing his emotions like an empathetic boy-chil...