If you are a political junkie, you probably have already read this, like I did way back in the late 1990s. He has big ideas with a stream of rhetoric that appears sincere, but in reality, is more an apparent shell game that involves a staffer that might actually hold sway over the conscience of the king. (The character masking is purposely ineffective, more an attempt to hide the writer and cloak him in an attempt to avoid the anticipated blowback.) In many respects the candidate is his own worst impediment to the White House.

A southern governor decides to run for President of the United States and struggles to get out of his own way. 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. This novel is as relevant now as it was back then. Political deception is worse in the sense of a voter, since I am not asking them to get marry, I am offering my vote.Ī cheater husband is a loser to me, not matter their kind of jobs.Ī cheater politician is a sad truth that each day, it's easier and easier to find in any candidate. I am not saying that I support marital deception, but in a politician, I think that it's worse when they really don't believe in their political opinions and they are just saying them to gain the support of the voter. Politicians are human as any other person in any other job career, and I can understand their 'character failures' in their personal areas. a brutally sad truth in an age where we are eager to have true leaders. a politician will do and will say anything if that helps him(her) to win an election. The story doesn't hesitate to show something that maybe any voter in any country knows. It's a book well written and it gives a very amusing view of a Clinton-like presidency without saying in open way that it was the intention, but the similarities are obvious.įor readers who enjoy politics based books I am sure that this can be a great option to read. It's no secret that Primary Colors is a fiction novel based on the real presidential campaign of former President Bill Clinton. However, the book is a more solid product with more details and development of the characters and events. It's highly likely that nowadays I would 'watch' in a different light the novel I'd read again. I have to admit that I didn't went crazy about for the book or the movie, at that particular moment, but again I think that it was a 'too serious' story in a moment in my life that I was reading and watching lighter stuff.

(It was later than it was known that Joe Klein was the author of the novel. Even at that moment was published as an 'anonymous' work. I read this novel, back then in 1998, just live a month before of watching the film adaptation.

Primary colors by anonymous