The Running Mate [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Klein, Joe

Verlag: The Dial Press, New York, 2000

Beschreibung

Fine condition white boards/blue spine/red spine lettering contained in a fine condition color illustrated non price-clipped dust jacket. A novel by the author of Primary Colors. ".Klein takes the reader on an exuberant, wicked, and unerringly wise political journey with Senator Charlie Martin, a decorated veteran of the war in Vietnam. The experience of combat and his easy dominance of home-state politics have made Charlie fearless. He's a hot, if occasionally reckless, political property - dashing, honorable, and irreverent. And then Charlie's life begins to fall apart. He campaigns for the presidency and fails. The wacky father of a volunteer decks him - in front of the cameras; a well-kept secret from Charlie's Vietnam days is revealed; he reluctantly finds himself at the center of a friend's cliffhanging confirmation process for Secretary of Defense.And Senator Martin begins to learn that politics in an era of spin, marketing, and vicious personal assaults can be as treacherous - and life-threatening - as combat was. Finally, Charlie Martin must confront the two greatest challenges of his life - a political opponent who has no scruples and a dazzling, unconventional woman who loves him but is appalled by his life's work. Charlie's dilemma is one that has come to haunt contemporary American politics: Is it possible to be a good politician and a good man, can you live in the public glare and still construct a habitable life? No observer of contemporary politics has a clearer eye than Joe Klein, or can so effortlessly show the moral complexities that arise when public and private lives intertwine. Here, in his superb new novel, he takes a good man's attempt to come to terms with the harsh new realities of the modern political arena - and gives us a book that reverberates with truth about ourselves.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001082

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Running Mate [FIRST EDITION, FIRST ...

Verlag: The Dial Press, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 2000

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition