Dramatic Opportunity
What contemporary political figure will make a better subject for a grand historical drama than Karl Rove?
Not Nixon: there's not much you can do with such a small, petty, angry man, cornered at last. Not Reagan, passing long, hazy days in the Oval Office, scheming to get an extra chocolate chip cookie. Not Clinton: there's just no drama in good government tarnished by personal weakness; not even Gibbon could find the story line though the third century of the Empire offers plenty of Clintonesque examples. And not Bush, who seems to lack either the weight or the awareness you'd need for drama.
At Harvard, I once played Kingmaker with an undergraduate woman whose ancestor was Richard Neville.