Alberto Gonzalez, the protagonist in a self-written narrative in which a man of Mexican descent overcomes "adversity" to join the ranks of A. Mitchell Palmer, John Mitchell, and Ed Meese as bullet-headed hacks in thrall to a President who's less an Executive than a scion, is finally given the blessing by his master to work as a consultant in the Heritage Foundation. George W. Bush, as John Dickerson remarks, makes a "fetish of loyalty."