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Title: Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential by James Moore, Wayne Slater, James C. Moore ISBN: 0-471-42327-0 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 21 February, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.62 (39 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: valuable tool for understanding how our country is being run
Comment: First of all...this is a book. People are allowed to let their personal opinions come through in a book. It isn't a news channel that's supposed to be neutral. So anyone that complains about liberal or conservative bias in a book can only be unhappy that the author's views do not match their own. Karl Rove's and George W. Bush's personal views are what's governing the country, give authors a break. That applies as much to Moore and Slater as it does to Bill O'Reilly by the way.
Given the fact that there is next to no information about Karl Rove out there right now for the masses, this is an extremely well-needed book. You're not going to fully understand Bush or Rove after reading it, but there's no way that any one book could completely capture the genius that is Karl Rove. I came away with this book with a much better understanding about how decisions are made in the Bush administration because of Rove.
Slater is also an ideal person to be writing on the subject as he was a reporter on the campaign trail with Rove and Bush. Karl Rove had every opportunity to clear up any misunderstandings about his past with the author, but he almost always contradicts himself. If Rove can't get the story straight when he knows what he says will be published, you shouldn't confuse bias from an author with unpleasant realities that make your party look bad.
Rating: 5
Summary: How do you spell unscrupulous?
Comment: Interesting. Most people find George Bush a little too lame-brained to be a president. It turns out he is!
This book starts with an introduction that copiously thanks Mr. Rove for all the time he gave the authors. Then they spend the rest of the book at least challenging his scruples. They contend, in effect, that Dubya doesn't run the country but Karl Rove does. (And neither one was elected!)
Rove started before college as a Young Republican where he rapidly worked up the ranks to become a leader. Once he slid into the world of the real campaign, apparently his ambition was to win at all costs. The authors document a series of actions for which Rove is clearly responsible. "Unscrupulous" is far too weak a word for the actions. It's like Rove read some of those books popular in the 80s that said to make it do whatever it takes. If it's at the expense--or hide--of someone else, so be it. So a series of people spent time in federal prisons on Rove's account, while others' lives were changed forever (some even became Democrats because of Karl's ruthlessness!)
The text then covers in considerable detail Dubya's rise to power in Texas (and how that state converted from a "Southern Democrat" state to a Republican state, largely with the aid of Rove. Then when Rove decided that Dubya was presidential material, he dropped hints as to McCain's mental suitability for office (because of McCain's time in a POW camp, which Dubya avoided with daddy Bush's help!) Some of the actions the authors document they admit that they have no black and white evidence that Rove was responsible for them. But they all but have his fingerprints on them, i.e., they're so similar to things for which he was obviously responsible before that they reek of Rove. It's much like a criminal record brought up in court.
Oh, and if your suspicious as to Dubya's motives for invading Iraq, one of the last chapters fairly well summarizes what some of us have suspected all along: with the economy in ghastly shape, and a mid-term election coming up, what better to get the "masses" riled up than--rah, rah--a war! (There are several volumes in Amazon.com more directly addressing that issue, but this volume summarizes those reasons quite well.)
While it may have sidetracked the subject of Rove, I only wish the authors had gone into more detail of the election of 2000 in which Dubya was not elected. Much has been written of that and to me much of it also has Rove's fingerprints all over it.
The book is particularly important because we, the electorate, need to know more about Rove and his kind. Again, he wasn't elected; he is far more manipulative of policy than Dubya is capable of being. And, again, Rove's lack of integrity is legendary. (I talked with a State Dept. official who's experienced Rove's fabrications too. He pretty well confirmed what the authors are saying.)
I don't want to discuss the "objectivity" of the authors, though they had lots of experience with Rove. And their work is certainly well-researched unlike the ranting of many a right wing demagogue from whom we frequently hear these days. But if you want to find a lot more about how the country runs these days, and who runs it, this is a book I'd recommend. I only wish I could be as eloquent as the authors in reviewing the book. But there's so much there, and it's disconcerting. It's hard to be too eloquent while fighting some of the rage Rove stimulates.
Rating: 1
Summary: Bush's Brain
Comment: I didn't realize that they would put a more appropriate title on a book of blank pages.
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Title: Boy Genius: Karl Rove, the Brains Behind the Remarkable Political Triumph of George W. Bush by Lou Dubose, Jan Reid, Carl M. Cannon ISBN: 1586481924 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 21 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Bushwhacked : Life in George W. Bush's America by LOU DUBOSE, MOLLY IVINS ISBN: 0375507523 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind ISBN: 0743255453 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception by DAVID CORN ISBN: 1400050669 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush by Kevin Phillips ISBN: 0670032646 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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