GEORGE EVEN READS UPSIDE DOWN.

In a recent New Yorker article Jane Mayer, reporting on Tony Schwartz's claims that he is the sole author of The Art of the Deal, seems to have fallen for one of the most comical lies of our time. While commenting that Trump never reads, she contrasted his avoidance of books with that of George W. Bush whom she writes, "...reportedly engaged in a book-reading contest with his political adviser Karl Rove." In a past interview Rove stated that in that year's competition he, Rove, read 110 books while George polished off only 95. A totally unbelievable claim considering how often the ungrammatical Bush spouted malapropisms and slaughtered syntax. I suspect the only book that Bush read in his adult life was My Pet Goat, and he didn't finish that. In an interview in New Orleans, Bush was asked what he was reading lately and he answered, "I just read three Shakespeares and one Camus." (Spoken like a true bibliophile.) I suspect that Karl Rove, seeing what an illiterate boob Bush was fabricated the book contest, a transparent deceit which a surprising number of gullible reporters accepted. But it shouldn't come as a surprise. After all Rove convinced Americans that Bush would make a good president.