Chris Matthews

Hardball

How Politics Is Played Told by One Who Knows the Game

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Produktbeschreibung

HOW POLITICS IS PLAYED BY ONE WHO KNOWS THE GAME ... Chris Matthews has spent a quarter century on the playing field of American politics -- from righthand man of Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill to host of NBC's highest rated cable talk show Hardball. In this revised and updated edition of his political classic, he offers fascinating new stories of raw ambition, brutal rivalry, and exquisite seduction and reveals the inside rules that govern the game of power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Free Press
• Revised and Updated edition
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 142mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9780684845593
• ISBN-10: 0684845598
• Artikelnr.: 21558166

Autorenporträt

Chris Matthews is a distinguished Professor of American Politics and Media at Fulbright University Vietnam. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit; Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero; Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked; Kennedy & Nixon; and Hardball. For twenty years, he anchored Hardball with Chris Matthews on MSNBC

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
Part I Alliances
1 It's Not Who You Know; It's Who You Get to Know
2 "All Politics Is Local"
3 It's Better to Receive Than to Give
4 "Dance with the One That Brung Ya"
Part II Enemies
5 Keep Your Enemies in Front of You
6 Don't Get Mad; Don't Get Even; Get Ahead
7 Leave No Shot Unanswered
Part III Deals
8 "Only Talk When It Improves the Silence"
9 Always Concede on Principle
Part IV Reputations
10 Hang a Lantern on Your Problem
11 Spin!
12 "The Press Is the Enemy"
13 The Reputation of Power
14 Positioning
Perspective
Index