Buck Up, Suck Up . . . and Come Back When You Foul Up: 12 Winning Secrets from the War Room

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Simon and Schuster, 05/12/2003 - 224 páginas
The political strategists who directed the Clinton campaign's War Room reveal the lessons and secrets from their hard-fought battles -- and how to use these highly effective strategies for success in business and everyday life.
James Carville and Paul Begala have waged political war all across America and on three continents. They've won some of the most spectacular political victories of the twentieth century and lost a few campaigns too. Along the way, they've learned a few lessons. Some sound simple, like "Never Quit," some comic, like "Kiss Ass," and some are more complicated and nuanced, like "Strategy Ain't Tactics." But each lesson contains tried-and-true wisdom, illustrated with colorful stories from long political experience:
• Find out how Carville's mother used a bass boat to "frame the debate" in
selling encyclopedias.
• Learn the War Room tricks for sharpening your message and delivering the perfect sound bite.
• Discover what success secret Hillary Rodham Clinton and Tom DeLay share.
• And much more.
Whether you are a senior executive or a secretary, a political junkie or the president of the United States, the rules to live by can be found in Buck Up, Suck Up...and Come Back When You Foul Up.
 

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Acknowledgments
11
Introduction
15
DONT QUIT DONT EVER QUIT
19
Kiss Ass
33
Kick Ass
48
FRAME THE DEBATE
67
UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STRATEGY AND TACTICS
82
BE OPEN
94
WORK YOUR ASS OFF
131
TURN WEAKNESS INTO STRENGTH
147
BE NIMBLE JACK
160
KNOW HOW TO RECOVER WHEN YOU REALLY SCREW UP
177
KNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU WIN
193
Conclusion
219
Source Notes
221
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KNOW HOW TO COMMUNICATE
106

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James Carville was born in Carville, Louisiana on October 25, 1944. He received his undergraduate and J.D. degrees from Louisiana State University. He worked as a political consultant on the successful gubernatorial campaigns of Robert Casey of Pennsylvania in 1986 and Zell Miller of Georgia in 1990. He was the lead strategist of the successful presidential campaign of then-Arkansas governor Bill Clinton. He also worked on a number of foreign campaigns. He is the author of several books including All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President and Love and War: Twenty Years, Three Presidents, Two Daughters and One Louisiana Home both written with his wife Mary Matalin. Paul Begala is a bestselling author and is a former counselor to President Clinton. He is currently co-host of MSNBC's Equal Time and lives with his wife and family in Virginia.

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