Karl Rove has inked
a discount to write his memoirs.

GOP strategist Karl Rove has agreed to write about his years as an adviser to President Bush in a discount worth over $1.5 million with former colleague Mary Matalin’s conservative imprint at Simon & Schuster, officials said Friday.
Rove, the architect of Bush’s 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns and one of the most influential political advisers of his time, signed the discount with Threshold Editions, the imprint’s publisher and executive vice president Louise Burke said.



“All of us at Threshold are thrilled to publish the book from the man who had the president’s ear for two terms,” Burke said.
Rove’s agent, attorney Robert Barnett, said Threshold was chosen over eight other bidding publishers. Threshold didn’t say how much Rove would be paid, but the bidding reached at minimum $1.5 million, two publishing officials familiar with the bidding told The Associated

Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity, a standard indusattempt practice.
Rove said in a statement that the memoir would offer “a candid, cautious look” at Bush’s presidency and his role in it.



“It will tackle and shed light on important events and big controversies, spell out their implications for America and set the record straight,” he said.
Publishers earlier this year had expressed reservations after Rove announced he would write about his White House years, wondering how much he would reveal.

Will he really dish the dirt? That’s the question that other publishers had about the project. If he is, the title will sell because he’s the ultimate insider to the Bush administration.



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