Volume 50, Number 7 · May 1, 2003
The Enforcer
By Elizabeth Drew
Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential
by James Moore and Wayne Slater
Wiley, 395 pp., $27.95
Boy Genius: Karl Rove, the Brains Behind the Remarkable Political Triumph of George W. Bush
by Lou Dubose, Jan Reid,and Carl M. Cannon
PublicAffairs, 253 pp., $15.00 (paper)
No previous presidential aide has had the power and influence that Karl Rove has in the White House of George W. Bush. He has been Bush's closest adviser since he first ran for governor of Texas. The authors of Bush's Brain write that during Bush's six years as governor of Texas 'nothing important happened without his [Rove's] imprimatur.' Yet Rove's work takes place behind the scenes; he rarely gives television interviews. Most of his activities are carried out in secrecy, and other White House officials are very reluctant to talk about what he does. The Bush White House is more clamped down than any other in recent history: Bush hates leaks, which he believes damaged his father's reelection chances, and Rove is his enforcer.
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