James Carville

This fast and easy read is rather delightful with narration by both authors giving their sides to life's experiences. Mary comes across to me as less articulate and facile in language, but James as more of a sore loser and generally selfish and, well, "raging". Matalin is so adoring of Cheney and the Bushes even looking back from the Obama era that it beggars belief. Their mutual love for Louisiana is one of their adorable similarities and opinions on pets one of their lesser known quirks show more that makes this a great read even if you are not a political junkie. show less

Carville is in pure attack-dog mode. It may be inelegant, but it's to the point. I would like to have had some of this stuff covered by the media when Starr's attempted coup d'etat was in progress. It might've saved this country a lot of wasted time, money, and hand-wringing. Ken Starr was conducting a partisan witch-hunt, no more, no less, and James Carville does no more and no less here than bluntly call him out on it.

Very interesting and informative book. This book really shows how the Democrats really have done a lot for the majority of this country while in office while the Republicans worry about the super rich and try to make people believe that lowering taxes and giving breaks to the super rich will help the middle class. It doesn't. Fact: "In seven years under President Obama, the U.S. has added an average of 107,000 jobs per month. Under President Clinton, the economy added 240,000 jobs a month. show more Under George W. Bush, it was only 13,000." I forgot some of the things that have happened in the past and James helped remind me.

More interesting information that people tend to forget: Newt Gingrich called for Clinton's impeachment because of the sex scandal. The entire time Newt was cheating on his wife. Congressmen Henry Hyde (R-IL) and Bob Livingston both called for Clinton's impeachment even though both had carried on affairs of their own. And Kenneth Starr, the independent prosecutor who investigated President Clinton's sex life was recently ousted from his new job as the head of Baylor University because he'd been looking the other way while members of Baylor's football team were reported for sexual assault.

As I see it, the GOP is really good about smoke and mirrors. This book really gives you food for thought during this crazy election year where we have a guy who should never have ran for president and is now so close to being in the White House where he could really F up this country. show less

5498. All's Fair Love, War, and Running for President, by Mary Matalin and James Carville with Peter Knobler (read 10 Sep 2017) Ths book was published in 1994, and is an account of the Clinton-Bush presidential race in 1992. What am I doing reading it over 20 years after it was written? Hey, it's political history and tells an excellent account of a fantastic race. I admit that half of the book is by Mary Matalin, and that half was not enjoyable reading--but I knew how it would end so I kept show more that in mind as I slogged through Mary's Republican mouthings. The whole book is so authentic and conveys so well the intensity of the race. And I knew that the authors did get married on Nov 25, 1993, and have children now. When I finished the book I felt as if I had been through the campaign--it was surprising how much I remembered of the events of 1992, and this is an excellent history of the year and the race. show less