Category: Biography

Copyright/published Year: 2010 by Threshold

ISBN: 1439191050

Binding: Hardcover

Description: From the moment he set foot on it, Karl Rove has rocked America's ì political stage. He ran the national College Republicans at ì twenty-two, and turned a Texas dominated by Democrats into a ì bastion for Republicans. He launched George W. Bush to national ì renown by unseating a popular Democratic governor, and then ì orchestrated a GOP White House win at a time when voters had ì little reason to throw out the incumbent party. For engineering ì victory after unlikely victory, Rove became known as "the ì Architect."

Because of his success, Rove has been attacked his entire career, ì accused of everything from campaign chicanery to ideological ì divisiveness. In this frank memoir, Rove responds to critics, ì passionately articulates his political philosophy, and defends ì the choices he made on the campaign trail and in the White House. ì In the course of putting the record straight, Rove takes on ì Democratic leaders like Harry Reid and Tom Daschle who acted ì cynically or deviously behind closed doors, and even Republicans ì who lacked backbone at crucial moments.

Among other controversial topics Rove addresses, he sets the ì record straight on:

• The facts of his mother's suicide and reports of his father's ì alleged homosexuality
  
• The accusation that he bugged his own office in ì Texas
  
• The real story of how George W. Bush defeated governor Ann ì Richards
  
• The details of Bush's stealth campaign to win the White House ì in 2000
  
• Why Bush cratered in New Hampshire but prevailed in South ì Carolina in 2000
  
• How Bush chose Dick Cheney as his presidential running ì 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 ì federal indictment, and
  
• Why Obama is wrong on healthcare.

Courage and Consequence is also the first intimate account ì from the highest level at the White House of one of the most ì headline-making presidencies of the modern age. Rove takes ì readers behind the scenes of

• The bitterly contested 2000 ì presidential contest
  
• Every tense minute aboard Air Force ì One on 9/11
  
• The decision to go to war in Afghanistan and ì Iraq, and
  
• The hard-won 2004 reelection fight.

Rove ì is candid about his mistakes in the West Wing and in his ì campaigns, and talks frankly about the heartbreak of his early ì family years. He spells out what it takes to win elections and ì how to govern successfully once a candidate has won. But ì Courage and Consequence is ultimately about the joy of a ì life committed to the conservative cause, a life spent in ì political combat and service to country, no matter the costs.

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