Posted on 07/26/2015 7:36:38 AM PDT by jimbo123
Karl Rove, a former senior advisor to President George W. Bush, has signed a deal with Simon & Schuster. Rove plans to write a book entitled The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters.
Priscilla Painton, an executive editor, negotiated the deal with Robert Barnett, a partner at the Williams & Connolly LLP law firm.
(Excerpt) Read more at adweek.com ...
As they say ... you just can’t make this stuff up.
He will sell 47 copies, all to his family.
I’ll read it-—maybe— only when its a free e-book download and on some dreary day in mid February. Otherwise meh....
GW Bush was a Hillary place holder. Rove held Hillary's place as she waited for the right moment to run.
“The book offers a fresh look at President William McKinley, whose 1896 campaign defeated William Jennings Bryan....”
Sounds very very dull.
I wouldn't be so sure. I remember my teachers in school praising Bryan as one of the greatest people that ever walked the planet. It was only much later that I learned that he was a flaming liberal Democrat pacifist. The story of how he was defeated might just be significant today.
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