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Are we just cynical if we buy Kevin Phillips meticulously articulated theme? Do we really believe that energy interests have always contolled political policy? With energy developers exploiting 16th century windmills, and then 19th century coal fields, do the 21st century oil companies now pull the strings that make politicos dance?
Phillips is an informed guide if you're going to play connect-the-dots. Petroleum and automobile makers have obvious interests in perpetuating the consumption of oil, mostly as gasoline. Reading American Theocracy, one wonders if W is president now because powerful oil men needed someone (like him) to take care of oil men (like them). W was available. They could probably make him President. An oil man, sympathetic to oil men.
This book requires that you pay attention to the dotted line connections between the energy suppliers and the men they choose to govern you and me. Discouragingly, it's a straight line from the Dutch masters to George W. Bush.
400 years ago: Rembrandt.
Today: W.
How did THAT happen??
This prose reads at a brisk pace. I'd certainly recommend it to my brightest friends.
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mike isberg, August 8, 2006
Are we just cynical if we buy Kevin Phillips meticulously articulated theme? Do we really believe that energy interests have always contolled political policy? With energy developers exploiting 16th century windmills, and then 19th century coal fields, do the 21st century oil companies now pull the strings that make politicos dance?Phillips is an informed guide if you're going to play connect-the-dots. Petroleum and automobile makers have obvious interests in perpetuating the consumption of oil, mostly as gasoline. Reading American Theocracy, one wonders if W is president now because powerful oil men needed someone (like him) to take care of oil men (like them). W was available. They could probably make him President. An oil man, sympathetic to oil men.
This book requires that you pay attention to the dotted line connections between the energy suppliers and the men they choose to govern you and me. Discouragingly, it's a straight line from the Dutch masters to George W. Bush.
400 years ago: Rembrandt.
Today: W.
How did THAT happen??
This prose reads at a brisk pace. I'd certainly recommend it to my brightest friends.
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