Patriot Games

I came very prepared to transcribe this entire Vanity Fair article by Judy Bachrach, but luckily someone else has already done so: John Ashcroft's Patriot Games. Considering the source ('Patriot Games' follows a more in-character VF expo on the upper crust social set of southern Florida), this article need not be taken with a grain of salt. Aschroft is already bitter yucky! Great reading! Thank you, Windy City Mike!

[Postscript] Also, this article by Jeffrey Rosen in April's Atlantic Monthly is very telling about Ashcroft. I found it particularly telling that Ashcroft compares politics to American sports like Baseball and Basketball (instead of time-tested games like chess and parchisi) and - to paraphrase - believes that a true leader doesn't help lead a populace where they are headed, but instead uses the power of persuasion/coercion to lead them where he thinks they should go. Rosen also makes nice contrast by comparing Ashcroft to his hero, Abraham Lincoln. Try to find the magazine; the article is worthwhile.