THE RUNNING MATE

Literature & Fiction

Joe Klein

Contemporary

Vintage

A novel about American politics, last published in 1996, and now reissued to tie in with the release of the film of the same name, starring John Travolta and Emma Thompson.

Primary Colors

ANONYMOUS

Woody Guthrie: A Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Faber and Faber

Faber Faber Inc

Charlie Martin, a highly decorated Vietnam veteran and senator, makes a run for the presidency and after being defeated in the Democratic primaries, he attempts to get on with an increasingly complicated life.

The Running Mate

Chatto&Windus

People on the right are furious. People on the left are livid. And the center isn't holding. There is only one thing on which almost everyone agrees: there is something very wrong in Washington. The country is being run by pollsters. Few politicians are able to win the voters' trust. Blame abounds and personal responsibility is nowhere to be found. There is a cynicism in Washington that appalls those in every state, red or blue. The question is: Why? The more urgent question is: What can be done about it? Few people are more qualified to deal with both questions than Joe Klein. There are many loud and opinionated voices on the political scene, but no one sees or writes with the clarity that this respected observer brings to the table. He has spent a lifetime enmeshed in politics, studying its nuances, its quirks, and its decline. He is as angry and fed up as the rest of us, so he has decided to do something about it-in these pages, he vents, reconstructs, deconstructs, and reveals how and why our leaders are less interested in leading than they are in the "permanent campaign" that political life has become.

Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized by People Who Think You're Stupid

Random House Large Print Publishing

From Publishers WeeklyThe people castigated in this lively but self-contradictory jeremiad make up the "pollster-consultant industrial complex" of political handlers responsible for today's bland, prefabricated candidates, carefully stage-managed campaigns and vacuous, focus-grouped policy proposals. Political reporter and Time pundit Klein (Primary Colors) traces the political consultants' influence through pungent insider accounts of presidential campaigns from 1968 to the present, throwing in plenty of his own armchair quarterbacking of triumphs and fiascoes. Throughout, he deplores the deadening of American political culture and celebrates the few politicians, like Ronald Reagan and John McCain, who occasionally slip the consultant's leash, blurt out an unfashionable opinion, take a principled stand or otherwise demonstrate their unvarnished humanity. Unfortunately, Klein's politics of personal authenticity-he longs for a candidate "who gets angry, within reason; gets weepy, within reason... but only if these emotions are rare and real"-seems indistinguishable from the image-driven, style-over-substance politics he decries; he just wishes the imagery and style were more colorful and compelling. Moreover, Klein's insistence that the electorate cares much more about the sincerity or "phoniness" of a politician's character than about policy issues puts him squarely in the camp of people who think voters are stupid. (Apr. 18)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Politics Lost

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The Natural The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton

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The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton

The author "takes readers behind the scenes of Bill Clinton's presidency. Both sides of Clinton's two terms are revealed and examined as Klein recounts the former president's very public personal failures and often overlooked political successes".

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Charlie Mike: A True Story of Heroes Who Brought Their Mission Home

Simon&Schuster

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