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Boss Rove : inside Karl Rove's secret kingdom of power / Craig Unger.
Van Pelt Library E840.8.R68 U64 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Unger, Craig.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rove, Karl.
- Rove, Karl--Influence.
- Rove, Karl--Political and social views.
- Political corruption--United States.
- Political corruption.
- Political and social views.
- United States.
- Political consultants--United States.
- Political consultants.
- Political campaigns--United States.
- Political campaigns.
- Presidents--United States--Election.
- Presidents.
- Elections--United States.
- Elections.
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ).
- Conservatism--United States.
- Conservatism.
- United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 309 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Scribner, 2012.
- Summary:
- Investigative reporter Unger explains how master political operative Karl Rove has become more powerful in the Republican Party in the last several years and how he has become a major player in backing GOP candidates, especially as the 2012 election reaches its climax in November.
- Contents:
- The man who swallowed the Republican Party
- A Nixonian education
- Chattanooga Choo Choo
- Sweet home Alabama
- Unintended consequences
- The turn of the screw
- All roads lead to Rove
- Lady Luck
- As goes Ohio
- 11:14 p.m.
- Drawing an inside straight
- The verdict
- The vanishing
- Back form the dead
- Last man standing
- Mitt Romney's last buyout.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-296) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781451694932
- 1451694938
- OCLC:
- 792880648
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