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Machiavelli's shadow : the rise and fall of Karl Rove

Title
Machiavelli's shadow : the rise and fall of Karl Rove / Paul Alexander.
Author
Alexander, Paul, 1955-
Publication
New York : Modern Times : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, [2008], ©2008.
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  • Publisher description

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Description
296 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"Karl Rove has come to personify scorched-earth political tactics and merciless, win-at-any-cost trickery. His status as the so-called architect behind Bush's election victories has elevated him to a mythic kingmaker in the national imagination. Not since Mark Hanna, special assistant to President William McKinley, has someone not elected to public office played such a vital role in the governance of our nation." "Paul Alexander tracks Rove's journey from consummate outsider to presidential consigliere, conducting firsthand interviews with A-list sources who have never gone on the record about Rove before now. The result is a no-holds-barred account of the man whose insistence on politicizing any area on which he has advised the president - from the war in Iraq to domestic issues like Social Security, energy, the environment, and hotly controversial judicial matters - has brought about his own fall from grace and an escalating crisis within the government and the nation."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-288) and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. Being Karl Rove -- Ch. 2. A Young Republican -- Ch. 3. Deep in the Heart of Texas -- Ch. 4. The Soon-to-Be President of the United States -- Ch. 5. Mr. Rove Goes to Washington -- Ch. 6. The Architect -- Ch. 7. Errors of Judgment -- Ch. 8. Katrina -- Ch. 9. Scandals -- Ch. 10. Bottoming Out -- Ch. 11. Blind Justice -- Ch. 12. The United States Versus Don Siegelman -- Ch. 13. Good-Bye.
ISBN
  • 9781594868252 (hardcover)
  • 1594868255 (hardcover)
LCCN
  • 2008018480
  • 40015533651
OCLC
  • ocn188823878
  • 188823878
  • SCSB-5414917
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries