O ther political strategists may have harbored equally Napoleonic ambitions, but few expressed them as clearly, or as often, as Karl Rove. As journalists Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten write in their 2006 book One Party Country, "Rove was the architect of a breathtakingly ambitious plan to use the embryonic Bush presidency to build an enduring Republican majority." At the time Hamburger and Wallsten wrote, not only many political journalists but many Democratic activists and strategists believed Rove was within sight of that goal–a conviction captured by the title the two Los Angeles Times reporters chose for their book; it wasn’t a Democratic "One Party Country" that they foresaw.