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You're listening to Away with Words. I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. You know, there's nothing like that feeling you get when you come to the end of a terrific book. You linger over that last page, you put the book down, and then the first

thing you want to do is go tell somebody about it. Oh, I know that one. Yeah, you have that

experience lately, Grant?

It's a 12-year-old book, but it's surprising how relevant it still is.

It's primary colors by Joe Klein.

Actually, he wrote it under the pseudonym of Anonymous.

And it's kind of a masked story about the first run for the White House by the Bill Clinton.

And it's fiction, there's a lot of fictional elements in it, but also there's an underpinning of history that really gave it a lot of

resonance during the recent Hillary Clinton campaign.

So it was just really interesting reading and he really truly has a way with words.

There were a couple pages in there.

I had to read several times, not because I didn't understand them,

but because I said to myself,

how did he do that?

How did he make me feel that way?

What was the magic that he had? and he had it? It was great.

And you, you've got one of those?

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