Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics is a 1996 book by columnist Joe Klein, published anonymously, about the presidential campaign of a southern governor. It is a roman à clef (a work of fiction based on real people and events) about Bill Clinton 's first presidential campaign in 1992. 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.
Alternative Book Cover Coming soon Quotes "Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre."―Joe Klein,Primary Colors "Middlemarch."―Anonymous,Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics "Her inability toseemy color-a quality that at first seemed so fetching in her, so exhilarating and optimistic-ultimately became a statement I could not accept: that my color wasn't. Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics, Joe Klein's anonymously published novel based on a fictionalized Clinton '92 campaign, covers the drama and day. 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. The novel's characters and scenarios are thinly veiled portrayals of real 1990s political figures and events. The Stantons, resembling the Clintons, invite readers to blur the line between.
Primary Colors Loosely based on Governor Bill Clinton 's 1992 presidential bid, Joe Klein's controversial novel Primary Colors was published anonymously in 1996. A film based on the novel was released in 1998. Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics Joe Klein, Anonymous.
Random House Inc, $24 (0pp) ISBN 978. Politics America's Last Great Political Novel In anticipation of the Democrats' Convention in Chicago, a look back at Joe Klein's splendid 1996 novel 'Primary Colors'. Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics - Kindle edition by Anonymous, Klein, Joe, Joe Klein.
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