The King Whisperers: Power Behind the Throne, from Rasputin to Rove
Language: English
Pages: 336
ISBN: 1402772017
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would make Republicans the majority party in American politics for years to come. Perhaps that is why George W. Bush called him the “architect.” Rove took his role as a political fixer in the White House very seriously, guiding Bush on policy, riding herd on stray Republican members of Congress, and putting out fires where he saw signs of trouble. That tendency may have led to the Bush administration’s greatest scandal—the outing of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame. Though Bush administration
is, in their opinion, either a reworking of a triumph of the Babylonian gods Marduk (Mordechai) and Ishtar (Esther) over the Elamite gods Humman (Haman) and Mashti (Vashti), or of the suppression of the Magians by Darius I, or even the resistance of the Babylonians to the decree of Artaxerxes II. According to a number of modern scholars, the story of Purim might be based on Persian legends, adopted by the Jews of the region for inspiration and guidance. Author Elaine Rose Glickman has written
Loth, p. 717. 49. among the islands: Milton, p. 312. 50. eighty Japanese mercenaries: Ibid., p. 313. 50. an outlaw: Ibid., p. 319. 50. died in Batavia: Ibid. 52. “. . . of the federation”: William Sloane, “Bismarck’s Apprenticeship,” Political Science Quarterly 13, no. 3 (September 1899): 421. 52. German Confederation: Erich Eyck, Bismarck and the German Empire (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1964), p. 21. 52. of Austria: Ibid., p. 33. 53. a decade earlier: E. J. Feuchtwanger,
to join the broader-based antishogun radicals threatening Tokugawa rule across Japan. Many had come to believe that the greatest obstacle to the salvation of Japan from foreign subjugation was the antiquated Tokugawa system, with its hundreds of feudal domains and repressive class structure. So in 1862 Ryoma decided to flee Tosa and separate himself from his home clan. Under Japan’s feudal hierarchy, one needed permission from the provincial government to leave. But Ryoma decided that asking for
standard political use of the word, the way that a third-world dictator might refer to the American president or the British prime minister as a “dog” or a “criminal.” No, as used here, criminal means an actual gun-toting thug. Without question, Stalin is one of the pivotal figures of the twentieth century. This is the story of his rise to power, and focuses on his early years in the Bolshevik political movement—the years when he developed and honed the bloody skills he would later put to use on