Primary Colors, Anonymous
Primary Colors, Anonymous
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Primary Colors
A Novel of Politics

Author: Anonymous

Narrator: Lloyd James

Unabridged: 14 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/14/2014

Categories: Fiction, Political


Synopsis

Primary Colors has its rich rewards as a savvy insiders look at life on the stump. But it travels far beyond mere gossip and expos to discover a convincing world of its own, peopled by smart cookies, nutcases, and wheeler-dealers, whose public and private lives illuminate each othersometimes by casting dark shadows. This story spans the novelistic spectrum from bedroom farce to high moral drama, and it paints a picture of the political state of the nation so vivid and authentic that one finds in it the deepest kind of truththe kind of truth that only fiction can tell.

About Anonymous

Anonymous is a USA Today bestselling author known for writing sizzling stories about flawed, passionate characters, including Aphrodite in Bloom.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alejandro on June 03, 2016

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

Goodreads review by Louie the Mustache on September 03, 2022

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

Goodreads review by Coco on June 03, 2009

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

Goodreads review by MacK on April 26, 2009

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

Goodreads review by Walter on March 27, 2014

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