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Written by Joe Klein - Audio book performed by Blair Underwood - Abridged Fiction - 2 CASSETTES

Publisher, Random House Audiobooks (February 1996)

Primary Colors was originally published with the author "anonymous." Eventually, it was announced that Joe Klein wrote the book.Praise for Primary Colors:

"An absolutely dazzling book, the best political novel in many years, one that manages to be simultaneously cynical and redemptive, funny and profound, reportorial, satirical, and thrilling." --Christopher Buckley, The New Yorker

"Breaks all the rules and lives to tell about it...there is a wonderful honesty about Primary Colors, a refusal to give into the conventional interpretation of people and events that cripples so much that is written about politics." --Michael Lewis, The New York Times Book Review

"This sensitively wrought, deftly drawn, acid-tongued political novel...is the best aides' eye view of politics since All the King's Men." --Walter Shapiro, Time

"The dialogue throws sparks, capturing perfectly the lingo of political professionals.... [The author] is a writer of considerable gifts; he has intimate knowledge of the political world." --Andrew Ferguson, The Wall Street Journal

"A delight to read. The author knows politics...and writes like a dream." --Alex Beam, The Boston Globe

"The rollicking new satire... Primary Colors gives the reader an entertaining, inside and often very funny look at the daily workings of a political campaign." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"[The author] has matched Teddy White. Nowadays, only fiction can do justice to the truth." --Richard Cohen, The Washington Post

Primary Colors - the #1 national bestseller with all the dramatic power, humor, psychological acuity, and insider knowledge of modern American electoral politics - is now a major motion picture from Universal.

Primary Colors portrays a convincing world of its own, peopled by smart cookies, nut cases, and wheeler-dealers, whose public and private lives illuminate each other - sometimes by casting dark shadows. The story paints a picture of the political state of the nation so vivid that one finds in it the deepest kind of truth - the kind of truth only fiction can tell.

About the Reader: Blair Underwood has received critical acclaim for his roles in such films as Just Cause and Set it Off. He directed, executive produced, co-wrote, and starred in the 30-minute dramatic film, The Second Coming. On television he is well known for his portrayal of Jonathan Rollins in L.A. Law.