NYT Books in Review: “The Architect” (re Karl Rove), “Hubris” (re the “selling” of the Iraq War”)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/15/books/review/Confessore.t.html?pagewanted=print
The Architect: Karl Rove and the Master Plan for Absolute Power,
by James Moore and Wayne Slater
The authors of “Bush’s Brain” veer off into a more personal “indictment of the man himself,” and engage in “self-parody” and are ultimately unable to square “the decline in Rove’s fortunes” with “their belief in his near infallibility.”
Like a bad sequel to a good film, the reviewer does not give this book a ringing endorsement.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/15/books/review/Heilbrunn2.t.html?pagewanted=print
Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War,
by Michael Isikoff and David Corn
Chronicling the Bush administration’s “delusional march to war,” the authors “offer the most comprehensive account of the White House’s political machinations, aimed at convincing Congress and the public that Iraq posed a dire threat.” The authors “supply a lot of new information” and “show that in many ways the administration became the dupe of its own propaganda.”
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