Christine Todd Whitman's New Book

Former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, who hails from a distinguished line of patrician East Coast Republicans, is not given to unseemly displays of anger or resentment. But her forthcoming book, "It's My Party Too," contains pointed (if decorous) criticism of current Republican Party radicalism and its threat to the party's long-term viability. When Karl Rove told her that, as head of the EPA, she would be one of three cabinet officers who would determine Bush's reelection prospects, she took it as an endorsement of a robust environmental ethic. "As it turned out," she says, "I don't seem to have understood Karl correctly." Ouch.