Together, the Carville-Matalins reflect on raising two daughters in the pressure cooker of the nation's capital, and their momentous 2008 decision to leave D.C. Bush's complicated presidency, the election of Barack Obama, the rise of the corrosive partisanship that dominates political life in Washington today, and the overriding abiding romance he holds for his native Louisiana and his wife and children. Mary focuses on issues of family, faith, and foreign enemies and offers insights from her kitchen table as well as the White House Cabinet Room, while James's concentration is politics and love-the triumphant and troubled Clinton era, George W. Love & War traces, in their two distinct voices, James and Mary's story from the end of the 1992 presidential campaign-where he managed Bill Clinton's electoral triumph while she suffered defeat as George H.W. If nothing else, this new collaboration proves that after twenty years of marriage they can still manage to agree on a few things.

In this follow-up to their groundbreaking All's Fair : Love, War, and Running for President, Carville and Matalin take a look at how they-and America-have changed in the last two decades. 'For twenty years, James Carville and Mary Matalin have held the mantle of the nation's most politically opposed, ideologically mismatched, and intensely opinionated couple.

All's Fair by Mary Matalin