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A really great book.' Bruce SpringsteenWith a foreword by Billy Bragg. Few artists have captured the American experience of their time as wholly as folk legend Woody Guthrie.

Senator Charlier Martin is in love with a woman. But he's also running for the presidency, and he's finding out that it's almost impossible to be a good man and a good politician in an era of spin and vicious attacks. A decorated Vietnam war hero, he's accused of sexual harassment, finds himself with some difficult decisions to make.

1996 zeichnete Joe Klein, langjähriger Redakteur des »New Yorker« und einer der scharfsinnigsten politischen Kommentatoren der USA, in seinem Roman »Primary Colours« eine Karikatur von Bill Clinton, die viele für ein tatsächliches Porträt hielten. Das aber legt er erst jetzt vor, und er fordert darin die Sichtweisen sowohl der Freunde wie der Feinde des ehemaligen Präsidenten heraus. Klein lässt die Affären beiseite, die Skandale, den Medienru...

This true story of two decorated combat veterans who find a new way to save their comrades and heal their country is "a great look at two of the best veteran organizations going and the incredible humans who make the effort work” (Jon Stewart).In Charlie Mike, a true account that "reads like a novel” (Publishers Weekly) and "explodes like a thriller” (The Huffington Post), Klein tells the dramatic story of Eric Greitens and Jake Wood, larger-t...

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From the author of Primary Colors, "a remarkably sensitive story of a generation” (The New York Times Book Review): The critically acclaimed true story of five Marines who fought together in a bloody battle during the Vietnam War, barely escaping with their lives, and of what happened when they came home.In 1981, while the country was celebrating the end of the Iran hostage crisis, an unemployed Vietnam veteran named Gary Cooper went berserk w...

This is the true story of two decorated combat veterans linked by tragedy, who come home from the Middle East and find a new way to save their comrades and heal their country. In Charlie Mike, Joe Klein tells the dramatic story of Eric Greitens and Jake Wood, larger-than-life war heroes who come home and use their military discipline and values to help others. This is a story that hasn't been told before, one of the most hopeful to emerge from...

This book offers an unprejudiced view of Clinton's presidential mandate (1992-"2000), of what he did and why. It is an essential tool to evaluate a most charismatic president and to draw conclusions that can be applied to any modern democracy.

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A brilliant and penetrating look behind the scenes of modern American politics, Primary Colors is a funny, wise, and dramatic story with characters and events that resemble some familiar, real-life figures. When a former congressional aide becomes part of the staff of the governor of a small Southern state, he watches in horror, admiration, and amazement, as the governor mixes calculation and sincerity in his not-so-above-board campaign for th...

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People on the right are furious. People on the left are livid. And the center isn't holding. There is only one thing on which almost everyone agrees: there is something very wrong in Washington. The country is being run by pollsters. Few politicians are able to win the voters' trust. Blame abounds and personal responsibility is nowhere to be found. There is a cynicism in Washington that appalls those in every state, red or blue. The question i...

Joe Klein, best-selling author of Primary Colors and one of our most brilliant political analysts, now tackles the subject he knows best: Bill Clinton. Astute, even-handed, and keenly intelligent, The Natural is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened-to the military, to the economy, to the American people, to the country-during Bill Clinton's presidency, and how the decisions made during his tenure affect all of ...

Hailed as "astonishingly powerful" by "The New York Times, and "written perfectly" by "The Washington Post, Joe Klein's #1 bestseller, Primary Colors, was the most-talked-about political novel of the past century. Now acclaimed journalist and author Joe Klein returns with another brilliant and slyly subversive novel set in the gladiatorial arena he knows so well: politics in modern-day America. U.S. senator Charlie Martin is a hot political pr...