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The New York Review of Books:

Karl Rove grew up in Colorado, Nevada, and Utah. As a student at the University of Utah he joined the College Republicans. He worked on the 1972 Nixon campaign, and has often been described as a "protégé" of Donald Segretti, the virtuoso of dirty tricks who went to jail as a Watergate conspirator. Whatever the nature of Rove's contact with Segretti, the fate of Nixon's advisers, campaign organizers, and tricksters doubtless formed a subject of meditation for him in the years 2004--2006, when he found himself threatened with indictment by a special prosecutor. The name of Donald Segretti appears nowhere in the present book.

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Comments

[sisyphus93]

This review is much like the gratuitously nasty reviews written by poet William Logan in its unfairness and utter capitulation to the writer's own prejudices--in Logan's case, his prejudice is against pretty much all contemporary poetry except his own, and towards his own peacock-like display of his own cruel cleverness; in Bromwich's case, it is clearly against all things Rove and Bush.

It's easy to read between the lines of this review because Bromwich is himself never terribly clever, certainly not smart enough to hide his own prejudices. He should appeal perfectly to HP readers.

[Tony Accetturo]

The broad mass of a nation...will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one. Adolf Hitler
"Mien Kampf" 1925

[tompoe]

Karl Rove is a war criminal.

[looneydoone]

WHY has there been no special prosecutor named to investigate Rove's activities during the "W"'s admin ? How has he remained unindicted?

[sisyphus93]

Oh...probably because he didn't break any laws.