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The Broad-Minded Richard Cohen
The Corner on National Review Online — Tuesday, December 30, 2008 [image] The Broad-Minded Richard Cohen [ Matthew J. Franck ] Richard Cohen has examined Karl Rove s account of the president s reading habits and pronounces George W. Bush intellectually insulated despite all the books he reads. He just doesn t read the books Cohen thinks he should particularly the whole shelves of books on how and why the Iraq war was a mistake, etc., etc., yadda yadda books by Chandrasekaran, Ricks, Packer, Mayer, Gellman, and so forth. But why should the president read books by people who know less ...

Richard Cohen reacts to that Karl Rove column about how President Bush read a lot of books while he was President.
Althouse — And by "Richard Cohen," I do not mean my ex-husband Richard Cohen. I mean that WaPo columnist to whom people have often asked me if I am/was married. The never-slept-with-Althouse Cohen writes: One of [the books Bush read] was Albert Camus' "The Stranger," with its unforgettable opening lines: "Mother died today. Or perhaps it was yesterday, I don't know." After reading Rove's Wall Street Journal column, it's clear there's much we all don't know. Bush's choice of the Camus classic is odd on the face of it. It is a novel about estrangement, about an ...

Richard Cohen Shocked to Discover Bush Is An Avid Reader
JammieWearingFool — Discovering George W. Bush has read, by Karl Rove's account, 186 books over the past three years just doesn't fit the narrow template that Bush is a blithering idiot. It humbles all those intellectual titans on the left, such as Richard Cohen , that the president is more well-read than most anyone out there. Good for him. What Cohen finds most irksome, however, other than having his notion of Bush as a dummy shattered, is the fact he isn't reading books critical of himself. As if he'd waste his time on cliched drivel about how Iraq was such a disaster. Maybe Bush doesn't agree ...

History Written Today
N/A — ... The rewriting of history will continue.  Bush really is a well read guy.  The Heretik will wait for George Bush to be ...

The book larnin' president
The Reaction — ... I couldn't bring myself to read Rove's column announcing Bush is really a closet braniac because he's such a prodigious reader but I choked down Richard Cohen's column to find out what he read. Hundreds of books they claim. It's probably true. It's not like he spent a lot of time socializing. ...