Research Catalog

Boy genius : Karl Rove, the architect of George W. Bush's remarkable political triumphs / Carl M. Cannon, Lou Dubose, and Jan Reid.

Title: Boy genius : Karl Rove, the architect of George W. Bush's remarkable political triumphs / Carl M. Cannon, Lou Dubose, and Jan Reid.
Author: Dubose, Lou
Publication: New York : PublicAffairs, c2003.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	E840.8.R68 D83 2003	Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Description

xviii,381 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

On November 2, 2004, a nation split straight down the middle went to the polls and elected George W. Bush to a second term as President of the United States. How did such a divided electorate produce more Republican votes than history had ever seen and a 51-48 percent victory for Bush - a president who, in his own words, has a history of being "misunderestimated." His chief political adviser, Karl Rove, suffers no such problem. Many attribute the president's successes, including the 2004 election, to Rove, and detect his influence in nearly everything the president does. From their earliest days in Texas, Rove has tapped the potential of George W. Bush. "Political hacks like me wait a lifetime for a guy like this to come along," Rove said of the future president. Now the brilliant tactician, whom Bush calls "Boy Genius," Texas legislators call "King Karl," and some call "Bush's Brain," has another four years in Washington to help the president spend his hard-earned political capital and to consolidate the Republican ascendancy that he helped mastermind. Cannon, who has covered Karl Rove more closely than any other Washington journalist, and the seasoned Texan reporters Dubose and Reid, join forces to unveil the man, his methods, and his plans for the Republican majority. The result is a compelling expose about the inner machinations of American politics today - and a riveting political biography of the Man Who Would Be Kingmaker. Rove has played politics to the highest level - and while, from allegations of bugging his own office back in Texas, to his murky dealings with the Swift Boat veterans in this year's election, his game is sometimes not pretty, he plays his cards extremely well and anyone interested in politics will be fascinated by this fair and revelatory investigation into the heart of our era's most effective political machine.

Series Statement

PublicAffairs reports

Uniform Title

PublicAffairs reports.

Alternative Title

Karl Rove, the architect of George W. Bush's remarkable political triumphs

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

A note on the text -- Prologue -- pt. 1. Young Republican -- 1. Gone to Texas -- 2. The future in plain sight -- 3. Whatever happened to the Class of '82? -- 4. The end of Democratic Texas -- pt. 2. Rising star in the Lone Star State -- 5. Kiss me first -- 6. Two birds with one stone -- 7. God bless Texas -- 8. The yellow rose garden -- 9. Firewall -- pt. 3. The man with the plan -- 10. A matter of the numbers -- 11. The last precinct -- 12. The crucible of power -- 13. The end of Democratic America? -- pt. 4. The plan comes together -- 14. The 101st Senator -- 15. Master of the House -- 16. The architect -- 17. In their heads -- 18. The machine -- epilogue -- Sources and acknowledgments -- Index.

ISBN

1586481924

LCCN

^^2002116766

OCLC

58551511
SCSB-10711380

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library