Earlier this year I started reading Karl Rove's Courage and Consequence.  I put it down about a month ago because it was dragging a little for me.  I seriously could have lived the rest of my life not knowing every single detail of President Bush's run for Texas Governor.  Life got busy with the Exodus Freedom Conference and I also didn't have the time to read much of anything outside of the Bible and some devotionals.

Even so, I have been on vacation and picked it up again.  I am glad I did.  That attention to detail led to some of the most powerful writing I have read in a memoir.

With crystal clarity I read about Mr. Rove's election night of 2000 that led to the huge squabble in Florida over who won the Presidential election between Bush and Gore.  I relived that night but it was fascinating to read it from Mr. Rove's perspective and compare/contrast the evening from my limited average American watching TV perspective to his "insider" perspective.

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