The Running Mate

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Prologue : Part 1
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 property, dashing, honorable

Prologue : Part 2
'I guess I wasn't expecting the onstage-all-the-time part of it,' she tried. 'I mean, it's Saturday and we were out there all day - and tomorrow's Sunday, and we have to do it all day then, too.... And my role: comatose devotion, perpetually amazed by you

Prologue : Part 3
'This isn't funny,' he said, but, of course, he knew it had to be. 'All right: I'm asking you to marry me because ... Well, what are you going to wear to church tomorrow?' During the day, when the sun had been hot, she'd worn a spectacular wide-brimmed

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 property, dashing, honorable, irreverent - and a decorated Vietnam veteran. The Running Mate follows this brash hero on a wild, exhilarating ride through the minefields of politics as usual.

But as Charlie quickly learns, combat is a cakewalk compared with the battles waged by free men in pursuit of glory and power. For Charlie's political star is beginning to wane ... a bid for the presidency ends in failure ... a young campaign volunteer's father decks him - in front of the cameras ... a well-kept secret from Charlie's Vietnam days is revealed ... and a woman has entered his life - one who loves him but is appalled by his life's work.

Suddenly Charlie must confront the two greatest challenges of his life - a political opponent who has no scruples and a dazzling, unconventional woman who may force him to choose between love and politics. 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?

Joe Klein, a journalist for nearly three decades, is currently Washington correspondent for The New Yorker. In addition to Primary Colors, his previous books include Payback: Five Marines After Vietnam and Woody Guthrie: A Life..

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