Primary Colors Summary
Joe Klein

In the following review, Carson offers a positive assessment of Primary Colors and maintains that the novel contains reportorial skill as well as literary merit. Reviewers of Primary Colors have at... Read more

In the following review, Cooper speculates on the identity of the anonymous author of Primary Colors. “Cooper? Stephanopoulos. 8:00, Tuesday morning. I think I got it: Peter Knobler, ghost w... Read more

In the following review, Wall discusses characteristics about the author of Primary Colors that he believes can be gleaned through information found in the novel. The literary question of the seaso... Read more

In the following negative review, Tonkin describes Primary Colors as “a long exercise in dirt-dishing.” What makes British politics such fun in real life wrecks it as a theme for art.... Read more

In the following review, Showalter offers a positive assessment of Primary Colors and weighs in on the author controversy surrounding the novel. At Kramerbooks, Washington's best bookstore-c... Read more

In the following mixed review, Neumann contends that Primary Colors follows the conventions of classic eighteenth- and nineteenth-century romance novels. Reviewers must sometimes make their biases ... Read more

In the following essay, Bowman justifies Klein's use of anonymity, but questions his credibility as a political commentator and journalist. It is a not-entirely frivolous question to ask, in... Read more

In the following essay, Clark finds parallels between Klein's Primary Colors and Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men. Toward the end of 1928, Robert Penn Warren, enjoying o... Read more

In the following review, Carson offers a positive assessment of Primary Colors and maintains that the novel contains reportorial skill as well as literary merit. Reviewers of Primary Colors have at... Read more

In the following mixed review, Neumann contends that Primary Colors follows the conventions of classic eighteenth- and nineteenth-century romance novels. Reviewers must sometimes make their biases ... Read more

In the following essay, Bowman justifies Klein's use of anonymity, but questions his credibility as a political commentator and journalist. It is a not-entirely frivolous question to ask, in... Read more

In the following essay, Clark finds parallels between Klein's Primary Colors and Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men. Toward the end of 1928, Robert Penn Warren, enjoying o... Read more

In the following mixed review, Walker commends the authenticity and ambition of Primary Colors. Jack Stanton, the central character of this stunning political novel [Primary Colors], is a roguish S... Read more

In the following review, Lawson ponders the true identity of the author of Primary Colors. Both Washington and London have started the new political season with the publication of an insider'... Read more

In the following negative review, Tonkin describes Primary Colors as “a long exercise in dirt-dishing.” What makes British politics such fun in real life wrecks it as a theme for art.... Read more

In the following review, Showalter offers a positive assessment of Primary Colors and weighs in on the author controversy surrounding the novel. At Kramerbooks, Washington's best bookstore-c... Read more