Behind the Oval Office - Winning the Presidency in the Nineties

Westminster: Random House Inc. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. Autograph; xx, 359 pages; Secure in original binding in very nice dustjacket; some marginal marks by Rowland Evans. Inscribed and signed on the ffep "1/17/97 / To Rowland / My very long-standing / buddy. / Dick Morris" Dick Morris has written the ultimate inside story about the dramatic reelection of President Clinton, one that is certain to stir controversy about the way politics really works in America today. No one before has so vividly described what policy advisers, pollsters, and advertisers do behind the scenes in the Oval Office. And no one has so acutely identified the new political forces that are dominating America today. Dick Morris was, as Time magazine put it, the most influential private citizen in America. He was President Clinton's secret election strategist, invited to advise the demoralized president in the wake of the midterm debacle of 1994 that gave Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole control of Congress and, it seemed, a certain Republican victory in the 1996 presidential campaign. It did not turn out that way. Clinton made the biggest comeback in the history of modern politics, and he did it largely because of his partnership with Dick Morris, the man whose remarkable political insights helped Clinton become governor of Arkansas in 1978 and rescued him from defeat in 1982. They had a rapport that Clinton himself has called "probably unique in American history." ; Signed by Author .