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YOU CAN GO HOME AGAIN
James Carville and Mary Matalin
Twenty-years after their bestselling, groundbreaking All’s
Fair: Love, War, and Running for President, James Carville
and Mary Matalin return with a look at how they—and
America—have changed in the last two decades.
James Carville and Mary Matalin, the nation’s best-known, most annoying, intensely
rabid, romantically mismatched and provocative political couple, are writing their
first book together since 1994. Their decision to collaborate proves that, after twenty
years of marriage, they can still manage to agree on one thing.
You Can Go Home Again traces the Carville/Matalin story from the end of the
1992 presidential campaign—where James managed Bill Clinton’s electoral triumph
while Mary suffered defeat as George H. W. Bush’s key strategist—till now. The new
book is written in two alternating and distinct voices and describes the personal and
public histories of the last twenty years. Matalin’s focus is on the interwoven personal
and political events of a transformational age; issues and insights from her kitchen
table to the White House Cabinet room on family, faith, friends, and foreign enemies.
Carville’s concentration is politics—the triumphant and troubled Clinton-era, George
Bush’s complicated presidency, the election of Barack Obama, and the rise of the
corrosive partisanship that dominates political life in Washington today. Both of
them reflect on raising young girls in the pressure cooker of the nation’s capital and
the family’s move to New Orleans, post-Katrina, where their efforts to rebuild and
promote the city has become a central part of their lives—and a poignant metaphor
for moving America forward.
All told—the memoir of the year.
✦ Carville’s Democratic liberal politics and Matalin’s conservative GOP positions have
long made for great debates and intriguing television: How can this outspoken,
sharp-elbowed pair share a bedroom together, let alone a TV studio?
✦ Carville and Matalin have been involved directly or as advisers or commentators
on national campaigns since Bill Clinton’s victory over George H. W. Bush in 1992;
they bring insight and anecdotes to these many battles.
✦ The pair are regulars on all the major network news shows; their many joint
speaking appearances are large-hall sellouts.
✦ Though both Carville and Matalin have published books solo, this is their first joint
effort since 1994.
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