About the Author

Dick Morris has authored many books, including over a dozen New York Times bestsellers, such as Armageddon, Screwed!, and Here Come the Black Helicopters!. Morris served as Bill Clinton's chief political consultant for twenty years, and is a regular political commentator on the Internet and Facebook. He has been married to coauthor Eileen McGann for forty years.

Reviews

"If Morris's book is sometimes chilling, it is often acute. Many of his micro-observations are on the mark." --Andrew Sullivan, The New York Times "It has much to tell us about the process whereby politics has confused the cynical with the practical, the poll with the people, pandering with compassion, governing with the simple act of winning." --Denver Rocky Mountain News "Regardless of whether readers agree with every point Morris makes they will find him an entertaining and highly instructive guide to the mechanics of modern political life." --Publishers Weekly

Morris, the strategist who fell from public grace after masterminding President Clinton's reelection campaign, would be expected to come across on tape like an explosive political firecracker. But on this follow up to his Behind the Oval Office (also available in an author reading from ART), he sounds oddly subdued. He halfheartedly seizes upon Machiavelli's historical The Prince as a model to explain his present-day political theories. He offers up platitudinous catchphrases to guide would-be candidates: "stay positive," "focus on the issues, and "rise above the party." Morris is at his best, though, in his specific observations of Clinton's travails, telling how the president faced down "savage partisanship" and became a "hostage" of the Democratic party. Morris argues that, in order to survive, "it is from the center that leaders must lead." That's not exactly a firebrand statementÄin any medium. Simultaneous release with the Renaissance hardcover. (June) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

"If Morris's book is sometimes chilling, it is often acute. Many of his micro-observations are on the mark." --Andrew Sullivan, The New York Times "It has much to tell us about the process whereby politics has confused the cynical with the practical, the poll with the people, pandering with compassion, governing with the simple act of winning." --Denver Rocky Mountain News "Regardless of whether readers agree with every point Morris makes they will find him an entertaining and highly instructive guide to the mechanics of modern political life." --Publishers Weekly