Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think

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A PATRIOT PLAYS HARDBALL
Chris Matthews has been playing "hardball" since the day he was born. From his first political run-in in the first grade to his years working as presidential speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, Matthews grew up loving his country and dreaming of his chance to protect it. In Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think, Chris Matthews is at his brilliant, blunt, bulldogged best.
From the Cold War to the Clinton years, Matthews gives the straight-up account of what it means to be an American. Matthews tells us about his "God and Country" Catholic school education in Philadelphia, complete with Cold War air-raid drills, and his early enthusiasm for politics. He shares with us his life's adventures -- two years in Africa with the Peace Corps, the challenge of running for Congress in his twenties, and his three decades deep in the "belly of the beast" of American politics -- using his own experiences to give us an irreverent look at who we are and whom we trust to lead us.

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Alissa Macmillan New York Daily News Matthews dispenses the wisdom he has gathered from his years at the Capitol [and] explores what it means to be an American.
The Washington Post A collection of reflections, aphorisms, and reminiscences for political junkies curious about the thinking, and the life, behind the drive-by quips that Matthews regularly delivers on his cable talk show Hardball.

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Chris Matthews is a distinguished Professor of American Politics and Media at Fulbright University Vietnam. He is the author of theNew York TimesbestsellersBobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit;Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero;Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked;Kennedy & Nixon; andHardball. For twenty years, he anchoredHardball with Chris Matthewson MSNBC