It totally looks like Hitler to me, but that could just be projection.
Oh, the guy on the book looks like Hitler, too.
I thought it was Hitler at first, then maybe Teddy Roosevelt, but the head doesn't look big enough.
I love the book imagery this past year. Bush holds presidential propaganda sessions in front of them or walks with books to board a chopper.
Rove has a large enough messenger bag, but prominently displays his "reading" material.
Book Learnin' is the wave of the future!
Really, I was just being a wiseass. The little black spot on that picture looks a little too dark to be a moustache, which is what's fooling me into thinking it's a picture of Hitler. But then again, you never know...
I thought it looked like Hitler at first, but the hair is wrong.
True... you never know, especially with these boys.
The little black spot on that picture looks a little too dark to be a moustache
I also think it's too large and not placed quite right. I think it's an open mouth, a picture of a man speaking.
Rove has a large enough messenger bag, but prominently displays his "reading" material.
That's an interesting point. Given that he appears to be looking right at the camera, I'm wondering if he's intentionally flaunting the material.
Found it!
Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary
It looks like it says "War" in brown reading up along the binding, and I'd guess that's someone's name across the top in red. So, [Somebody's] War" is my guess. It's likely just a little game Karl's playing. He's really just a punk, a vicious punk, but a punk nonetheless. Once folks have that figured out, he's toast.
"Book Learnin' is the wave of the future!"
Ah yeah, but a third of DC is illiterate. We are doing SO well with No Child Left Behind aren't we?
Ah, good job, SB.
GOOD WORK spectrum!
from one of the reviews-
A Strangelovian paradox: The only way to preserve peace is to court war. So believed Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, who combined political cunning and a remarkable survival instinct with a sad awareness that "the Soviet position in the superpower struggle was so weak that Moscow had no choice but to try to set the pace of international politics."
Sound familiar, without the cunning of course.
Good detective work! I was browsing through the conservative books website looking for a score on the cover, but came up with nothing.
I saw a picture in the LA Times with Rove and that book... I was curious, too.
KKKarl is looking pretty verklempt. His combover is particularly unruly in this shot. He is starting to look as crazy as he acts.
Stop stealing our ideas Rove.
He looks like Cheney's Mini-Me.
Wow. So that is what someone with no socially redeeming qualities looks like.
Scary.
You think there's someone in the White House whose job is to select books for senior staff to casually tote in front of the press?
A little disturbing. Is he doing teh research for teh policy?
Wonder if publishers give them book to be shown like that? PR sort of thing.
You think there's someone in the White House whose job is to select books for senior staff to casually tote in front of the press?
You bet!
I would suspect it falls under the White House Communications Director duties. This role is currently played by Dan Bartlett
Then again, Rove enrolled Bush in the White House Monthly Book Club. It might be his brilliant mind in action.
meh. i bet it's just a dust jacket covering "The Illustrated Works of Scooter Libby"
"the Soviet position in the superpower struggle was so weak....
Whoa there folks. I don't think the rest of us should be allowed to read books with those kinds of dangerous thoughts in them. The Soviet Union was weak under Kruschev? No way, man.
The Soviet Union was strong and determined to annihilate us with nucular weapons pointed in our very faces right up until brave leader Reagan said "Tear down this wall".
Because Reagan was so scary and so convincing, the Soviets literally crumbled on the spot and that was how Reagan won the cold war.
End of story.
Right?
Best line I've heard recently (over in comments at TPM Muckraker): When Rove reads Kafka, he's not appalled. He's looking for good ideas.
I think I've seen that book before...it's either titled "The Idiot's Guide to Perjury and Obstruction of Justice", or "I Didn't Do It: 101 Alibis for the Ethically Challenged" or "Male on Male Rape: An Insider's Guide to Surviving Hard Time in Prison."
I can't look at Rove without thinking that he's little more than a bald cat and a monicle shy of playing the villian in some cheezy b-movie knockoff of a James Bond picture.
Thanks jeff. You stole my prison reference before I could type it.
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