![]() The plot then follows the primary election calendar beginning in New Hampshire where Stanton's affair with Cashmere, his wife's hairdresser, and his participation in a Vietnam War era protest come to light and threaten to derail his presidential prospects. The book begins as an idealistic former congressional worker, Henry Burton, joins the presidential campaign of southern governor Jack Stanton, a thinly disguised stand-in for Bill Clinton. He wrote a sequel, The Running Mate in 2000, focusing on Primary Colors character Charlie Martin. Klein was identified as the author several months after its publication. The book has been compared to two other novels about American politics: Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men 1946 and O: A Presidential Novel 2011. It was adapted as a film of the same name in 1998. ![]() It is a roman à clef a work of fiction based on real people and events about Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign in 1992. ![]() Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics is a 1996 book by columnist Joe Klein-published anonymously-about the presidential campaign of a southern governor. ![]()
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