Famous for demanding the truth from his Hardball guests, Chris Matthews now reveals what
the people running this country rarely confess: the secrets of how they got to the top. Here is the
first book on power with insight snatched from those who wield it. Life’s a Campaign exposes
the tactics, tricks, and truths that help people get ahead–and can help you, too, whatever your
field of ambition. You’ll learn about Bill Clinton’s laser-focused ability to listen to those he
wants to seduce–and how he’s been teaching that craft to his wife, Hillary; how Ronald Reagan
employed his basic optimism to win history to his side; the simple steps in human diplomacy
that the first President Bush exploited to assemble a worldwide posse to attack Saddam Hussein
and gain global approval in a way his son has failed to do; how Nancy Pelosi became the first
woman Speaker of the House by practicing the most fundamental of human qualities:
hardnosed loyalty. You’ll also find out, for the first time, about Matthews’ own wild ride
through the turbulent, converging rapids of politics and journalism. --from Amazon.com