By James Moore, Wayne Slater
President George W. Bush dubbed Karl Rove "The Architect" for his ability in growing an remarkable crusade and fund-raising computing device. yet Rove's targets have regularly been way more sweeping--to construct a right-wing dynasty that could dominate American politics for many years. Rove's grasp plan imagines a political process so managed through Republicans that it's resisted simply by means of symbolic opposition.
In The Architect, James Moore and Wayne Slater, the bestselling authors of Bush's mind, go back with a fair extra penetrating exam of Rove, his sweeping time table, and the cost he can have to pay for his audacity. Drawing on their decades-long learn of Rove, they supply a infrequently obvious view of the politics of absolute strength in Washington--how it's received, extended, and grew to become to startling ends. in particular, they unveil how Rove:
• Used lobbyist Jack Abramoff as a cat's-paw to control unruly legislators
• Energetically led the antigay marriage move whereas conserving a kin mystery that made his stance bizarrely cynical
• became Christian church buildings right into a titanic vote supply approach, regardless of privately admitting to being a nonbeliever
• again and again leaked details to hurt political rivals, making him the guy investigators so much desired to consult once they started probing the Plame affair
• was once in detail enthusiastic about a world disinformation scheme to guide the US to war
The Architect is an eye-opening and often surprising file at the maneuverings of a super yet morally ambiguous political strategist, and the first-ever in-depth examine a political operative striving to completely regulate the future--even if he dangers wasting everything.
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What follows will undoubtedly seem insufficiently detailed for the country expert, for no doubt in the process of compressing each country’s narrative I leave out much that is important. The book will also likely be unsatisfying for many political science theorists for whom the objective of comparative politics is to generate powerful deductive and falsifiable theories. In sum, the ambition here is thus likely to be too grand for some, and too limited for others. It is my hope, however, that despite these limitations, this analysis has something to teach us, both about these three rather important and interesting countries and about how we should think about political and historical change.