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Boss Rove: Inside Karl Rove's Secret Kingdom of Power
by
Craig Unger
The epic 2012 presidential contest between President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney represents the stunning comeback of GOP boss Karl Rove, the brilliant political operator whose scorched-earth partisanship infamously earned him the moniker “Bush’s Brain” and provoked some observers to label him as dangerous to American democracy. How, after leaving the...more
Hardcover, 320 pages
Published
September 4th 2012
by Scribner
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This is an excellent and terrifying biography of one of the men who screwed up America over the past decade. Sure, this book slants left, but I find Craig Unger to be a pretty credible reporter. Boss Rove is well researched and pretty damning. I am very interested in politics (and majored in Political Science at UCLA), and this book made me sick. The state of politics in our country is as low as it has ever been. It is based on deception and lies, and appealing to the lowest common denominator....more
The Title" "Boss Rove", gives you the idea that it will be something of a hatchet-job on Rove. While not exactly a conspiracy-theory book, it does contains a number of unsupported suppositions that all recent Republican dirty campaign tricks can be attributed to Karl Rove. While I'm not so naive as to think Rove hasn't pulled a couple of beauties in his past, and is certainly capable of tearing down an opponent, it's hard to believe that he is singly responsible for all the negative campaign tec...more
I was excited to read this book. Really, really excited. However, I had to put it down after only 29 pages. A short checklist may help determine whether this book would be a good choice for you to read as well.
Self-described liberal: check
Open dislike for the New Right: check
Hatred for Citizens United: check
Enjoys watching the Colbert Report & Daily Show: check
Enjoys having these shows referenced in a presumably scholarly book: nope
Enjoys 7th grade name-calling: nope
Trusts blogs as a referen...more
Self-described liberal: check
Open dislike for the New Right: check
Hatred for Citizens United: check
Enjoys watching the Colbert Report & Daily Show: check
Enjoys having these shows referenced in a presumably scholarly book: nope
Enjoys 7th grade name-calling: nope
Trusts blogs as a referen...more
Excellent book, well documented, of Karl Rove- his methods and goals. Scary and really makes me wonder why we do not hear more about the possible stealing of Ohio in the 2008 election. Money in elections, in the hands of people like Rove, is destroying democracy. Really interesting book, people should read it to understand more about what is going on in politics today.
Can we all just agree that Karl Rove is a monumental asshole? I mean, Republicans and Democrats alike, I think we can all agree that he's not a very nice man. Wins elections though, eh? Or used to. *chuckle*
If you ever had questions about American elections, and after Florida who doesn't, then this book will make you wonder about who gets elected and how.
Even more interesting to read with the added vindication of the 2012 election. It's like reading a suspense thriller, having already been spoiled that the killer will get his comeuppance.
Meh. Just so so. Already knew most of it. Unfairly left slanted, as if Enver Hoxha ghosted.
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Craig Unger is an American journalist and writer. His most recent book is The Fall of the House of Bush, about the internal feud in the Bush family and the rise and collusion of the neoconservative and Christian right in Republican party politics, viewing each group's weltanschauung and efforts concerning present and potential future US policy through a distinctly negative prism. His previous work...more
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