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Life's a Campaign: What Politics Has Taught Me About Friendship, Rivalry, Reputation, and Success

par Chris Matthews

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Life's a campaign is a noisy, inside peek at people with power and what you can learn from them. This is a how-to book of ways to get people to do what you want them to. Much of life is persuasion. We persuade a girl or boy to love us, a child to play by the rules, a boss to appreciate us, a club to let us in. We must enlist allies, we must find friends, even in provision, just in case. Without seeking them, we face rivals. All the while we ask people to do things for us. We have dreams and must reach for them. The best politicians, as Chris Matthew has learned, are princes in this world. They are professionals at getting people to do things for them: vote for them, give them money, volunteer to work for them, root for them, trust them with life-or-death decisions. They're superb, as we all know, at cutting deals to their advantage, building and bolstering their reputations. They're particularly deft at facing rivals. They relish a good contest even when the stakes are their own careers.… (plus d'informations)

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Seems like a ghost-written reference book for political wannabes. Interesting statements of the rather obvious. (

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forkrulassail | Oct 19, 2008 |

‘Life’s a Campaign’ (2007) ist im Wesentlichen eine Variation von Chris Matthews zu seinem früheren Buch ‘Hardball’ (1988). Diesmal schreibt Matthews autobiographischer. Einige der Anekdoten werden dem Leser aus seinem früheren Buch bekannt vorkommen. Auch die Lektionen die Matthews im täglichen Handeln von Politikern findet entsprechen denen, die er bereits 1988 beschrieb. Allerdings sind sie diesmal mundgerechter zubereitet. Das Buch ist eine gute Ergänzung zu ‘Hardball’, da Matthews einige Punkte verdeutlicht. Allerdings stellte sich bei diesem Buch zumindest bei mir kein ähnlich starker Aha-Effekt wie bei der Lektüre von ‘Hardball’ ein. (

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AndreasJungherr | May 14, 2008 |

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

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Life's a campaign is a noisy, inside peek at people with power and what you can learn from them. This is a how-to book of ways to get people to do what you want them to. Much of life is persuasion. We persuade a girl or boy to love us, a child to play by the rules, a boss to appreciate us, a club to let us in. We must enlist allies, we must find friends, even in provision, just in case. Without seeking them, we face rivals. All the while we ask people to do things for us. We have dreams and must reach for them. The best politicians, as Chris Matthew has learned, are princes in this world. They are professionals at getting people to do things for them: vote for them, give them money, volunteer to work for them, root for them, trust them with life-or-death decisions. They're superb, as we all know, at cutting deals to their advantage, building and bolstering their reputations. They're particularly deft at facing rivals. They relish a good contest even when the stakes are their own careers.

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