Machiavelli's Shadow

"Karl Rove has come to personify scorched-earth political tactics and merciless, win-at-any-cost trickery. His status as the so-called architect behind Bush's election victories has elevated him to a mythic kingmaker in the national imagination. Not since Mark Hanna, special assistant to President William McKinley, has someone not elected to public office played such a vital role in the governance of our nation." "Paul Alexander tracks Rove's journey from consummate outsider to presidential consigliere, conducting firsthand interviews with A-list sources who have never gone on the record about Rove before now. The result is a no-holds-barred account of the man whose insistence on politicizing any area on which he has advised the president - from the war in Iraq to domestic issues like Social Security, energy, the environment, and hotly controversial judicial matters - has brought about his own fall from grace and an escalating crisis within the government and the nation."--BOOK JACKET.Alexander, Paul is the author of 'Machiavelli's Shadow' with ISBN 9781594868252 and ISBN 1594868255.