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The Rove You Don't Know

Former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer reveals White House secrets that aren't in Karl Rove's new book—including how his man-the-barricades mania eventually exhausted even the president’s top aides.

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When asked to discuss Karl Rove's memoir, the temptation is to linger on its title. With far more justification, Ronald Reagan might have called his own book, Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight.

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