primary colors

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"Primary Colors" is a fictional account of a presidential primary campaign. The

book is writen by Anonymous, who we now know is Newsweek colunmnist Joe Klein.

Klein includes a disclainer saying he invented the characters and situations, but I feel that

the book is about the Clintons. All the events are there. The champaign takes place in

1992. Stanton is the governor of a small Southern state. He has an authoritative wife,

Suzan. He also has problems with promisuity, draft dodging, and war protest.

The central charactor of the book is not Jack Stanton but the narrator Henry

Burton. Former congressional aide and grandson of the famous civil rights leader,

Harvey Burton. Henry tells the story of Governor Jack Stanton's presidential campaign.

Young, black and no novice to insider politics, he signs on as deputy campaign manager

but rapidly becomes the Governor's right hand man and psychological confident. Henry

struggles with his role in the campaign, his responsibility to the candidate, and most

disturbingly with how much he actually

candidate but Stanton himself and his own checkered past.

men, has large virtues and failings. I feel that the author does love a part of Clinton,

and always, always gets the job done. An overwhelming presence, she is keeper of all the

Daisy never quite makes it into the inner circle of the Stanton campaign. She does

knows and believes in the real Jack Stanton--the

developes an odd comradeship in the manic, obsessive Richard Jemmons.

Nicknamed the "Dustbuster," Libby Holden has always been there in the past to

Stanton secrets; she knows both the Governor and his wife inside and out or thinks she

to bust! Her methods are sometimes extreme but she is constantly looking for the truth

anyone, that the most dangerous threat to the Stanton campaign is not an opposing

Approximate Word count = 723
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Politics

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