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Veteran journalists Moore and Slater offered a glimpse into Karl Rove's singular influence within the Bush administration in their best-selling Bush's Brain, and in light of the recent contretemps in Washington, the authors have issued this deftly reported revision of their earlier book. The title of this up-to-date foray into the machinations of "Bush's Brain" belies the book's incredible depth; revealing not only the details of Rove's success and failures, the book also directs a critical eye toward his Salt Lake City childhood, his earliest political ambitions and the events that shaped his values. Broader than an exposé, but too partisan and brief to be considered a full-fledged biography, the book portrays a man "not beyond lying" and obsessed with "creating power and winning elections" whose character is governed by a simple ethos: to succeed at any cost (even when the battle at hand is a questionably good-natured snowball fight with reporters). Moore and Slater are quick to acknowledge Rove is, for better or worse, very good at his job, and provide ample analysis of "Roverian" politics (or, "Rovian Cancer," as the authors put it) from his days advising state-level campaigns to the build-up to, and ongoing fallout from, the invasion of Iraq. A piercing examination of the preeminent right wing political strategist, the book will find favor among politics buffs.
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Now we know: Karl Rove "is the co-president of the United States." (And you thought it was Dick Cheney.) "Karl Rove thinks it, and George W. Bush does it," write James Moore and Wayne Slater in Rove Exposed: How Bush's Brain Fooled America, an update of their bestselling Bush's Brain. In the latest attempt to understand the political mastermind who gives liberals the vapors, Moore (a TV news correspondent) and Slater (Austin, Tex., bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News) go through a laundry list of Rove's alleged wrongdoing: that while running a Texas gubernatorial campaign, he may have planted a bug in his own office to cast suspicion on the opposing candidate; that he had a pet FBI agent open investigations of top Democratic officials in Texas at key moments in elections; that he held "dirty trick seminars" on campaign espionage for fellow College Republicans; that he told Robert Novak that Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, worked for the CIA. (Oh wait, that was Official A.) Rove, they conclude, is one bad dude: "If Karl Rove were not sitting in his office in the White House, there might have been no war in Iraq; there would be underprivileged children still attending Head Start programs . . . there would be low income families getting health care . . . there would be competitive bidding on contracts to rebuild Iraq instead of delivery of deals to Halliburton . . . there would have been no California recall . . . there would be a complete and honest report from the 9/11 Commission . . . there would be real funding for Homeland Security's First Responders [and] there would even be more people with jobs." And every night, the Tooth Fairy would fill your pillow with gold doubloons.
—Rachel Hartigan Shea (The Washington Post's "Book World " section, November 6, 2005)
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Veteran journalists Moore and Slater offered a glimpse into Karl Rove's singular influence within the Bush administration in their best-selling Bush's Brain, and in light of the recent contretemps in Washington, the authors have issued this deftly reported revision of their earlier book. The title of this up-to-date foray into the machinations of "Bush's Brain" belies the book's incredible depth; revealing not only the details of Rove's success and failures, the book also directs a critical eye toward his Salt Lake City childhood, his earliest political ambitions and the events that shaped his values. Broader than an exposé, but too partisan and brief to be considered a full-fledged biography, the book portrays a man "not beyond lying" and obsessed with "creating power and winning elections" whose character is governed by a simple ethos: to succeed at any cost (even when the battle at hand is a questionably good-natured snowball fight with reporters). Moore and Slater are quick to acknowledge Rove is, for better or worse, very good at his job, and provide ample analysis of "Roverian" politics (or, "Rovian Cancer," as the authors put it) from his days advising state-level campaigns to the build-up to, and ongoing fallout from, the invasion of Iraq. A piercing examination of the preeminent right wing political strategist, the book will find favor among politics buffs.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Now we know: Karl Rove "is the co-president of the United States." (And you thought it was Dick Cheney.) "Karl Rove thinks it, and George W. Bush does it," write James Moore and Wayne Slater in Rove Exposed: How Bush's Brain Fooled America, an update of their bestselling Bush's Brain. In the latest attempt to understand the political mastermind who gives liberals the vapors, Moore (a TV news correspondent) and Slater (Austin, Tex., bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News) go through a laundry list of Rove's alleged wrongdoing: that while running a Texas gubernatorial campaign, he may have planted a bug in his own office to cast suspicion on the opposing candidate; that he had a pet FBI agent open investigations of top Democratic officials in Texas at key moments in elections; that he held "dirty trick seminars" on campaign espionage for fellow College Republicans; that he told Robert Novak that Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, worked for the CIA. (Oh wait, that was Official A.) Rove, they conclude, is one bad dude: "If Karl Rove were not sitting in his office in the White House, there might have been no war in Iraq; there would be underprivileged children still attending Head Start programs . . . there would be low income families getting health care . . . there would be competitive bidding on contracts to rebuild Iraq instead of delivery of deals to Halliburton . . . there would have been no California recall . . . there would be a complete and honest report from the 9/11 Commission . . . there would be real funding for Homeland Security's First Responders [and] there would even be more people with jobs." And every night, the Tooth Fairy would fill your pillow with gold doubloons.
—Rachel Hartigan Shea (The Washington Post's "Book World " section, November 6, 2005)
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Karl Rove, White House, Ann Richards, New Hampshire, Mark White, East Texas, Rick Perry, United States, Bill Clements, George Bush, Mike Moeller, Dallas Morning News, Greg Rampton, Jim Hightower, Republican National, Salt Lake City, Texas Department of Agriculture, President Bush, Travis County, Governor's Mansion, Lee Atwater, Supreme Court, York Times, Bob Boyd, Election Day New!
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- The Tragedy of American Compassion by Marvin Olasky on 4 pages
- The MORAL SENSE by James Q. Wilson on page 112, and page 113
- Why Not (Voyages) by Cecily Matthews on page 152
- A History of the American People by Woodrow Wilson on page 113
- Thank You (Lion Giftlines) by Emma Fox in Back Matter
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