Este autor es conocido por su mirada penetrante sobre la política y el periodismo. Su escritura a menudo se centra en el trasfondo de las campañas políticas y el funcionamiento del poder. Con una vasta experiencia en Washington y Nueva York, aporta autenticidad y una profunda comprensión a sus obras. Los lectores apreciarán su habilidad para desvelar los complejos mecanismos de la vida política con aguda inteligencia.
The biography explores the life of Woody Guthrie, an iconic American folk singer whose experiences were marked by both tragedy and resilience. His profound impact on music and culture inspired a generation of songwriters, including legends like Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan. Through his struggles and artistry, Guthrie's legacy as a voice for the marginalized and a champion of social justice is vividly highlighted.
Klein, one of today's top political observers, has watched from the inside as consultants, pollsters, the twenty-four-hour cable news cycle, and the lack of courage in so many of our political leaders have chiseled away at Washington's integrity. Klein's intimate knowledge of the system and the people who run it, as well as his backroom access to leading figures, informs his dissection of the last thirty-five years of American politics. Klein still harbors hope for the future, and in addition to his brilliant, if dismaying, analysis of the political landscape of the past three decades, he lays out a plan and a vision for what the next president must do to regain the trust of the country and turn politics back into an honest and passionate profession.--From publisher description.
Not forgetting Monica Lewinsky, this account explores every aspect of the Clinton presidency, both personal and political, and how the decisions made during his tenure affect all of us today. Klein explains how the White House functioned on the inside, how it dealt with the manoeuvres of Congress and the Gingrich revolution, and who held power and made the decisions during the endless crises that beset the administration. Klein's access to the White House over the years as a journalist gave him a prime spot from which to view every crucial event, and here he gives us his view of the period.
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 the presidency.From the Hardcover edition.
Hailed as 'astonishingly powerful' by the New York Times, 'a superb novel' by the Daily Telegraph and 'written perfectly' by the Washington Post, PRIMARY COLOURS was the most talked about political novel of the last decades of the twentieth century. It capitulated Anonymous- aka New Yorker Washington correspondent Joe Klein into the public eye as a novelist of the first rank. Now, in 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 experience of combat and his easy dominance of home state politics have mad e Charlie fearless. He's a hot if occasionally reckless, political property dashing honourable and irreverent. No observer of contemporary politics has a clearer eye then Joe Klein, or can so effortlessly show the moral complexities that arise when public and private lives intertwine. In his superb new novel, he takes one man's attempt to come to terms with the brutality of the modern political arena-and gives us a book that reverberates with truth about the way we govern ourselves.
The narrative centers on two decorated combat veterans, Eric Greitens and Jake Wood, who return from the Middle East and channel their military experience into helping others. Greitens, a Navy SEAL and Rhodes Scholar, founds The Mission Continues to support wounded veterans in public service, while Wood, a former Marine, leads disaster relief efforts through Team Rubicon. Both men exemplify how military values of discipline and selflessness can transform lives and strengthen communities, illustrating a powerful journey from chaos to purpose.
How American Democracy Was Trivialized by People Who Think You're Stupid
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 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 Why? The more urgent question What can be done about it?Few people are more qualified to deal with both questions than Joe Klein.There are many loud and opinionated voices on the political scene, but no one sees or writes with the clarity that this respected observer brings to the table. He has spent a lifetime enmeshed in politics, studying its nuances, its quirks, and its decline. He is as angry and fed up as the rest of us, so he has decided to do something about it—in these pages, he vents, reconstructs, deconstructs, and reveals how and why our leaders are less interested in leading than they are in the “permanent campaign” that political life has become.The book opens with a stirring anecdote from the night of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. Klein re-creates the scene of Robert Kennedy’s appearance in a black neighborhood in Indianapolis, where he gave a gut-wrenching, poetic speech that showed respect for the audience, imparted dignity to all who listened, and quelled a potential riot. Appearing against the wishes of his security team, it was one of the last truly courageous and spontaneous acts by an American politician—and it is no accident that Klein connects courage to spontaneity. From there, Klein begins his analysis—campaign by campaign—of how things went wrong. From the McGovern campaign polling techniques to Roger Ailes’s combative strategy for Nixon; from Reagan’s reinvention of the Republican Party to Lee Atwater’s equally brilliant reinvention of behind-the-scenes strategizing; from Jimmy Carter to George H. W. Bush to Bill Clinton to George W.—as well as inside looks at the losing sides—we see how the Democrats become diffuse and frightened, how the system becomes unbalanced, and how politics becomes less and less about ideology and more and more about how to gain and keep power. By the end of one of the most dismal political runs in history—Kerry’s 2004 campaign for president—we understand how such traits as courage, spontaneity, and leadership have disappeared from our political landscape.In a fascinating final chapter, the author refuses to give easy answers since the push for easy answers has long been part of the problem. But he does give thoughtful solutions that just may get us out of this mess—especially if any of the 2008 candidates happen to be paying attention.
§Charlie Martin ist erfolgreicher und beliebter Vollblutpolitiker. Dennoch oder gerade deshalb hat er sich eins bewahrt: seine Ehre. Die steht aber plötzlich auf dem Spiel: Unversehens findet Martin sich inmitten schmutziger Intrigen und Skandale. Als er dann noch einer charismatischen Frau begegnet, die jeder Form von Politik mehr als skeptisch gegenübersteht, sieht er sich im Kreuzfeuer widerstreitender Gefühle.§Eine packende Story. Brillant erzählt. Eine große ungewöhnliche Liebe. Eine Achterbahnfahrt der Gefühle.§
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