Proof that evil bastards like to read good books, too — Karl Rove answers Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire:
Who are your favorite writers?
In alphabetical order: Jorge Luis Borges, Gabor Boritt, Ray Bradbury, G. K. Chesterton, Winston Churchill, David Herbert Donald, T. S. Eliot, Joseph Ellis, Gary Gallagher, F. A. Hayek, Paul Horgan, Paul Johnson, Tom Lea, C. S. Lewis, Abraham Lincoln, John D. MacDonald, David McCullough, Merrill Peterson, Robert Remini, Andrew Roberts, William Shakespeare, Adam Smith, Alexis de Tocqueville, Evelyn Waugh, and Robert Wiebe.
Then again, that list does have a slightly focus-grouped feel to it. As does his answers to the greatest love of his life (“America”) and his heroes in real life (“The men and women who volunteer to go into harm’s way wearing the uniform of our country’s military.”) More interesting, and maybe telling is his answer to the trait he most deplores in others. Rove’s answer? “Not being authentic.”
It is to laugh.
Via William Gibson.