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THE ARCHITECT:
KARL ROVE AND THE MASTER PLAN FOR ABSOLUTE POWER

James Moore, Wayne Slater

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - This bold follow-up to journalists Moore and
Slater's bestseller, Bush's Brain, takes a provocative look at how Karl
Rove used George Bush's various campaigns and presidency to engineer
nothing less than the assertion of a long-term Republican hegemony and
the complete dismantling of the Democratic Party. To make their case,
they draw on a wide range of materials, including interviews and
reportage done by other journalists to demonstrate how Rove mobilized
his party's base, forging an unlikely alliance between religious and
economic conservatives, while mounting targeted assaults on gays and
lesbians, trial lawyers and labor unions. Yet in this narrative, his bid
for a complete realignment of American politics begins to derail with
the failure of Bush's Social Security reform plan, the administration's
response to Hurricane Katrina, the failed nomination of Harriet Miers to
the Supreme Court and, most significantly, the implication of Rove in
the leak of CIA employee Valerie Plame's identity. In this damning but
scattered account, Rove remains an elusive, almost inhuman figure,
despite short digressions about his relationship with his gay stepfather
and his weekly brunches with members of the White House and RNC teams
during the reelection campaign.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0307237923/progressiverevieA/

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DELUSIONAL DEMOCRACY:
Fixing the Republic Without
Overthrowing the Government

Joel Hirschhorn

COMMON COURAGE PRESS - Delusional Democracy connects far-ranging dots
for a compelling account of America's steady decline and presents
specific actions that can reverse it. Written for conservatives,
libertarians, liberals, moderates, independents, greens, and
progressives, as well as dissatisfied Democrats and Republicans,
Delusional Democracy will convince readers that we the people have the
power to begin American democracy over again.

http://www.delusionaldemocracy.com