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Title: The Running Mate

Author: Joe Klein

Narrator: Anthony Heald

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-00

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

And then Charlie's life begins to fall apart. He campaigns for the presidency and fails...and Senator Martin begins to learn that politics in an era of spin, marketing, and vicious personal assaults can be as treacherous - and life-threatening - as combat was.

Finally, Charlie Martin must confront the two greatest challenges in his life - a political opponent who has no scruples and a dazzling, unconventional woman who loves him but is appalled by his life's work. 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? Can you live in the public glare and still construct a habitable life?

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Members Reviews:

Smart, fun, funny, and even tender

Joe Klein gets it. He gets Washington dinner parties, grip-and-grin photo sessions with constituents and their kids, blended families, old friends, grown-up romance, and what people think about during -- and after -- the really tough moments. Who knew that inside the sharpest (in both senses of the word) political reporter there was a tender-hearted novelist struggling to get out? Freed from the stunt aspect of the "anonymous" first novel, we get to see Klein's real chops as a 21st century Balzac. What fun to see him having fun making it all turn out the way he'd like to see it. Highly recommended!

So funny

this is great for political junkies. Love all of Klein's books. The best part is that it was all true!

Enjoyable read

I didn't read Primary Colors so this my first experience with JOe Klein. I enjoyed the book. I am not the type of reader who is going to sit here and nit pick things about it. I am not someone who dives into how real a character is or is not. I just know if I liked the book or if I didn't, and this book I liked.

Primary Colors readers might well like this book less.

I stayed away from "Primary Colors" as the "Anonymous" gimmick was deserving of many adjectives, none of them positive. I did see the movie adaptation hence the title of this review. Allowing for the tendency for the movie to be less than the book, I'm confident it was a good read.

This is an extremely well written work by a great writer with a sharp political eye, and a subtle and not so subtle, savage wit. There is repetition in this book and that's where "Primary Colors" readers might feel annoyed. There were very similar events between this book and the movie of the first novel.

I thought this was one extremely well written tale, but as another wrote, "only fiction can do justice to the truth", this was commentary on not only our electoral system, and those who seek office but the confirmation process as well. And as nauseating as the performance of most of the characters are, as you read you will draw parallels to real life events, and politics in general.

Calling this book fiction is a stretch.