But according to karl rove, dubya actually reads more than most selfproclaimed bibliophiles. Discount prices on books by karl rove, including titles like the triumph of william mckinley. Karl rove in the fight again with new memoir fresh air. According to rove often referred to as bushs brain the two competed for the last four years over who read the most books. What if karl rove was right about the realitybased community. By the end of 2006, bush had read a highly respectable 95 books to roves 110. Bush administration until his resignation on august 31, 2007. According to the policy adviser karl rove, he and george w bush had. Rove has also been credited for the successful campaigns of john ashcroft 1 karl christian rove was senior advisor and deputy chief of staff to former president george w. One of the political masterminds favorite writers is jorge luis borges. A principal architect of the disastrous presidency of george w.
Roves favorite book at the time was eric foners free soil, free labor, free men, a history of the early days of the republican party, which he read less as a dispassionate analysis of. Karl rove served as senior advisor to president george w. At the white house he oversaw the offices of strategic initiatives. Get book recommendations, fiction, poetry, and dispatches from the. Karl christian rove born december 25, 1950 is an american republican political consultant and policy advisor. Offers a fresh look at president william mckinley, whose 1896 campaign defeated william jennings bryan, ended a period of bitter gridlock, and reformed and. That works out at about two books a week a fairly impressive feat for such real masters of the universe. But the one book that rove claimed bush read every. The secret literary life of george w bush us news the. Jon meacham, pulitzer prizewinning author of american lion karl rove, who knows a thing or two about presidential campaigns, looks back at a watershed election over a century ago and shows how the winner, william mckinley, used it to change his party, the political process, and the nation. Karl rove came to town with one goal, and that was this massive republican realignment in the nations politics, trying to do what president mckinley did a century earlier.
Bill counts hillarys living history among his favourite political books. In 2006, for example, the thenpresident put away 95 books to roves 110. All the us presidents reading lists books the guardian. Bush from 20002007 and deputy chief of staff from 20042007. Bush famously got into a reading duel with karl rove, to see who could read the most books. The bush gurus new memoir offers a brief and compelling personal narrative, followed by 500 pages of dishonesty and deception. Well, going back to the book that i first recommended, the federalist papers, there is a. A religious man after all, rove talks about the role of faith in american politics february 26, 2008 4. Matthew sheffield of newsbusters, a web site dedicated to exposing and combating liberal media bias, asked former bush political svengali karl rove for his daily reads. Karl rove, the architect journalist wayne slater has written extensively about the influence of karl rove on president bush. Karl roves book tour makes more waves some milwaukeearea customers are unhappy that karl rove is including a stop at their local bookstore on his book tour.
Being fanatical about research, mark and i came up with a favorite tactic. Karl rove wrote in 2008, in the 35 years ive known george w. Karl rove ranges on to new ground with summer book club. He has also headed the office of political affairs, the office of public liaison, and the white house office of strategic initiatives.
Obama, americas reader in chief, expands his list of favorite books. Bush, karl rove, 57, has charted a long course from the internship he landed with the republican party in. Four years later, he has engineered a billiondollar takeover of. We recommended volumes to each other for example, he encouraged me to read a mao biography. You can read as many books as you like, and about a year later she gave me a wizard of. Bush engage in an annual contest to see who can read the most books. Karl rove on compassionate conservatism books five books. By 2008, karl rove revealed in an oped for the wall street journal that. Alec nevalalee on what borgess stories reveal about roves. I am haunted by karl rove or rather by what may be the most notorious anonymous quotation from a senior official during the eight years that. Karl rove talks through the books that define, for him, the essence of. From the moment he set foot on it, karl rove has rocked americas political stage. Karl rove reveals outgoing president read average of two books a week over last four years. March 17, 2010 the book by the conservative strategist is called courage and consequence.