Primary Colors
A Novel of Politics

A relevant reading ALL'S FAIR IN POLITICS AND WAR I read this novel, back then in 1998, just live a month before of watching the film adaptation. Even at that moment was published as an "anonymous" work. (It was later than it was known that Joe Klein was the author of the novel. I have to admit......more

This novel is as relevant now as it was back then. Primary Colors written by Joe Klein in the guise of Anonymous is a political novel with fictional characters (not so much) meant to represent real-life people. A southern governor decides to run for President of the United States and struggles to ge......more

I thought I may have waited too long to read this one, but since it was for sale at a library book sale, I thought, why not take a chance? I'd always wanted to see what all the fuss was about. The book was interesting, especially given the recent Hillary/Barack dust-up. Loosely disguised as fiction,......more

It starts out slowly, ploddingly, irritatingly. Just like most election campaigns. You see things develop bit-by-bit inch-by-inch, see characters begin to define themselves, see conflicts begin to emerge, and find yourself wishing time or the pages would go faster so you could get to the end. Then it......more

A novel set in the heated 1992 Presidential campaign, "Primary Colors" is the thinly disguised story of Bill Clinton's unlikely victory in the Presidential race of that year. For years this book was attributed to an anonymous author, eventually Joe Klein fessed up to writing it. It is a very uncompl......more