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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780670032648 |
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"Phillips...has written a dark, sprawling, provocative, sometimes almost paranoid book — which is not to say that its most troubling conjectures can't be true. He assembles a wide array of evidence to show how, over four generations, the Walker-Bush clan has been on the front line of the rise of the military-industrial-intelligence complex, the ever-growing national security state that its fourth-generation heir just happens to run today." Joan Walsh, Salon.com (read the entire Salon.com review)
"Nowhere does Phillips better illustrate the significance of W's move to fundamentalist Christianity than in recounting the different social philosophies of the two Bush Presidents....Does all of this add up to a sound case for a dynasty? Unfortunately not....Kevin Phillips tries to establish a kind of guilt by association and often comes perilously close to diatribe." Robert R. Sullivan, The Times Literary Supplement (read the entire Times Literary Supplement review)
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The Bushes are the family nobody really knows, says Kevin Phillips. This popular lack of acquaintance — nurtured by gauzy imagery of Maine summer cottages, gray-haired national grandmothers, July Fourth sparklers, and cowboy boots — has let national politics create a dynasticized presidency that would have horrified America's founding fathers. They, after all, had led a revolution against a succession of royal Georges.
In this devastating book, onetime Republican strategist Phillips reveals how four generations of Bushes have ascended the ladder of national power since World War One, becoming entrenched within the American establishment — Yale, Wall Street, the Senate, the CIA, the vice presidency, and the presidency — through a recurrent flair for old-boy networking, national security involvement, and political deception. By uncovering relationships and connecting facts with new clarity, Phillips comes to a stunning conclusion: The Bush family has systematically used its financial and social empire — its "aristocracy" — to gain the White House, thereby subverting the very core of American democracy. In their ambition, the Bushes ultimately reinvented themselves with brilliant timing, twisting and turning from silver spoon Yankees to born-again evangelical Texans.
As America — and the world — holds its breath for the 2004 presidential election, American Dynasty explains how it happened and what it all means.
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Tom Tito, January 3, 2007 (view all comments by Tom Tito)
This book covers a lot of American history as it looks at the Bush family. Four generations of corruption are exposed.
Future historians will tell us what the Bush brothers have done in recent years. The press largely ignores their shady business deals.
It?s all about greed and taking from the taxpayers. Dubya, Neil and Jeb made their fortune by using dad to grab tax money. Medicare rip-offs, S&L bailouts, the tax subsidized Texas baseball stadium - these are all transfers of our government funds disguised as business deals. This book explains where the sons got their sense of entitlement that make corruption come naturally.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780670032648
- Subtitle:
- Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Viking Adult
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- Political
- Subject:
- History
- Subject:
- Historical - U.S.
- Subject:
- United states
- Subject:
- Presidents
- Subject:
- Politicians
- Subject:
- Wealth
- Subject:
- Political corruption
- Subject:
- Aristocracy
- Subject:
- Presidents & Heads of State
- Subject:
- General History
- Copyright:
- 2004
- Edition Number:
- 1st
- Series Volume:
- 108-39
- Publication Date:
- January 2004
- Binding:
- Hardback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 416
- Dimensions:
- 9.20x6.30x1.33 in. 1.50 lbs.
