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. 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. 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 cliff hanging confirmation process for Secretary of Defense… He campaigns for the presidency and fails. And then Charlie’s life begins to fall apart. He’s a hot, if occasionally reckless, political property dashing, honorable, and irreverent. The experience of combat and his easy dominance of home state politics have made Charlie fearless. Now, in The Running Mate, 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 brilliant portrait of a charming, ambitious, amoral young Southerner on his way to the White House struck an instantly recognizable chord, and catapulted Anonymous aka New Yorker Washington correspondent Joe Klein into the public eye as a novelist of the first rank. Hailed as ‘astonishingly powerful’ by The New York Times, and ‘written perfectly’ by The Washington Post, Primary Colors, with over one million hardcover copies in print, was the most talked about political novel of the past century.
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