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Michael Barone

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Andrew Roberts

March 14, 2007 06:40 PM ET |

Last week British historian Andrew Roberts had lunch at the White House with George W. Bush and a glittering array of other writers: Norman Podhoretz, Paul Gigot, Michael Novak, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Irving Kristol, and Irwin Stelzer. Here is Stelzer's account, from the Weekly Standard online edition. And here's Michael Novak's slightly different account of the lunch. The news: Karl Rove and Bush are having a contest to see who can read the most books this year.

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Tags: Utah | House of Representatives | Rove, Karl | Bush, George W. | Washington, DC | Davis, Tom

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Michael Barone is a senior writer for U.S.News & World Report and principal coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics. He has written for many publications—including the Economist and the New York Times.

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