Lloyd Grove in the New York Daily News:
Rove biographers Jim Moore and Wayne Slater – who this week are rereleasing their groundbreaking study, “Bush’s Brain,” as a quickie paperback with a new title, “Rove Exposed: How Bush’s Brain Fooled America” – are feverishly at work on “The Architect,” a brand-new Rove exposé for Random House.
Meanwhile, Radar magazine yesterday reported on its Web site that Texas political insiders are predicting the demise of the married Rove’s “very close relationship” with wealthy forty-something Texas lobbyist Karen Johnson.
“Everyone knows how close Karen is to Karl, but she’s sick of it,” the mag quotes a source “familiar with the situation,” noting that Johnson and Rove didn’t return phone calls.
Apparently Johnson’s family wants her to marry her handsome ranch foreman, Rhett Hard, who works on Johnson’s Cinco de Mayo property in Austin.
But Moore, a veteran Texas political reporter who has known Rove well since the late 1970s, told me that he and co-author Slater have no plans to include Johnson in their new book.
“It’s a tough thing for me,” Moore said. “Darby, Karl’s wife, is a wonderful woman. And they’ve got a great kid. They just happen to live with an evil man.”
