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Courage And Consequence
Karl Rove
My Life as a Conservative in the Fight
Simon & Schuster
March 2010
On Sale: March 9, 2010
608 pages ISBN: 1439191050 EAN: 9781439191057 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
From the moment he set foot on it, Karl Rove has rocked
America's political stage. He ran the national College
Republicans at twenty-two, and turned a Texas dominated by
Democrats into a bastion for Republicans. He launched George
W. Bush to national renown by unseating a popular Democratic
governor, and then orchestrated a GOP White House win at a
time when voters had little reason to throw out the
incumbent party. For engineering victory after unlikely
victory, Rove became known as "the Architect."
Because of his success, Rove has been attacked his entire
career, accused of everything from campaign chicanery to
ideological divisiveness. In this frank memoir, Rove
responds to critics, passionately articulates his political
philosophy, and defends the choices he made on the campaign
trail and in the White House. In the course of putting the
record straight, Rove takes on Democratic leaders like Harry
Reid and Tom Daschle who acted cynically or deviously behind
closed doors, and even Republicans who lacked backbone at
crucial moments.
Among other controversial topics Rove addresses, he sets
the record straight on:
- The facts of his mother's suicide and reports of his
father's alleged homosexuality
- The accusation that he bugged his own office in Texas
- The real story of how George W. Bush defeated
governor Ann Richards
- The details of Bush's stealth campaign to win the
White House in 2000
- Why Bush cratered in New Hampshire but prevailed in
South Carolina in 2000
- How Bush chose Dick Cheney as his presidential
running mate
- How the Bush campaign managed Bush's DUI
- The defection of Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords
- The frustrating challenges of Hurricane Katrina
- The facts behind Rove's painful three years fending
off a federal indictment, and
- Why Obama is wrong on healthcare
Courage and Consequence is also the first intimate
account from the highest level at the White House of one of
the most headline-making presidencies of the modern age.
Rove takes readers behind the scenes of: - The bitterly contested 2000 presidential contest
- Every tense minute aboard Air Force One on 9/11
- The decision to go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and
- The hard-won 2004 reelection fight
Rove is candid about his mistakes in the West Wing and in
his campaigns, and talks frankly about the heartbreak of his
early family years. He spells out what it takes to win
elections and how to govern successfully once a candidate
has won. But Courage and Consequence is ultimately
about the joy of a life committed to the conservative cause,
a life spent in political combat and service to country, no
matter the costs.
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