Dust jacket shows only slight shelf-wear, very slight rubbing to spine. An excellent copy of a highly readable and amusing novel. The novel was the basis for the feature film of the same name staring John Travolta and Emma Thompson. Shouting over the din of a New Hampshire press room as he covered the Presidential primary voting yesterday, Joe Klein denied repeatedly that he is Anonymous, the author of 'Primary. The first edition was immediately sold out, and the book has been reprinted at least eight times, and became a huge bestseller. Twenty years ago, Primary Colors a roman clef loosely based on Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaigndropped like a novel-length Page Six blind item. He is best known for his work as a columnist for Time magazine and his novel Primary Colors, an anonymously written roman clef portraying Bill Clinton 's 1992 presidential campaign.

Klein was forced to leave Newsweek and took a position at The New Yorker. Joe Klein (born September 7, 1946) is an American political commentator and author. Klein was a columnist for Newsweek at the time of publication and had denied writing the book, as had his superiors at Newsweek. The subsequent scandal became a debate about ethics in journalism. The question of the identity of the book's author became the talk of Washington and the media as soon as the book was published and debate continued until a reporter from the Washington Post was able to identify Klein by the handwriting in the marginal notes on a set of galleys. He's also the author of three nonfiction books and two novels, including -famously, and anonymously -Primary Colors. This is the pseudonymous, anonymous novel closely based on Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. What follows for Henry, and the reader, is an education in modern American electoral politics that in dramatic power, humor, psychological acuity, and insider knowledge beggars a hundred textbooks and a thousand lectures. Young Henry Burton is half flattered, half shanghaied, by the governor of a small Southern state to join him as campaign staff, in a run for the presidency. Quarter bound in pblisher's white cloth over gray boards, gilt lettering on spine. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (Random House First Printings start with '2' in the print line.

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