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Hardball: How Politics Is Played, Told by One Who Knows the Game

How politics is played by one who knows the game...host of MSNBC's Hardball, Chris Matthews.

Chris Matthews has spent a quarter century on the playing field of American politics - from right-hand man of Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill to host of NBC's highest rated cable talk show Hardball.In this revised and updated edition of his political classic, he offers fascinating new stories of raw ambition, brutal rivalry, and exquisite seduction and reveals the inside rules that govern the game of power.

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