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washingtonmonthly.com - 12/27/2008
The bookworm in the White House
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THE BOOKWORM IN THE WHITE HOUSE.... Last week, the president addressed the American Enterprise Institute, with some fairly boilerplate rhetoric. During his discussion, Christopher DeMuth, the group's president, mentioned, "Another book that you famously read was Eliot Cohen's 'Supreme Command,'...

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Lawyers, Guns and Money:  Cooking the Books

online.wsj.com - 12/26/2008
Karl Rove Says George W. Bush Is a Book Lover
— online.wsj.com — About Karl Rove Karl Rove served as Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush from 2000 2007 and Deputy Chief of Staff from 2004 2007. At the White House he oversaw the Offices of Strategic Initiatives, Political Affairs, Public Liaison, and ... (more) Karl Rove Says George W. Bush Is a Book Lover

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article.nationalreview.com - 12/29/2008
Malkin: Buff Bam vs. Weird Dubya
— article.nationalreview.com — Bush is creepy. Obama is a god. (more) Malkin: Buff Bam vs. Weird Dubya

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Cooking the Books
Lawyers, Guns and Money — As to the absurd notion that George W. Bush has read several hundred books since 2005, I can't offer much beyond what Steven Benen and Matt Stoler have already provided. In the very least, this is an elaborate put-on by Rove; to be slightly less charitable, his insistence that Bush devoted time this year to reading Jacobo Timerman's Prisoner Without a Name -- a book about torture, among other familiar ills -- is sickening. Or perhaps it's just as well. Bush "reads" books in the same sense that his government "adheres" to the Geneva ...

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