American Dynasty Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics by Kevin Phillips
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Ex Libris
- No
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Personalized
- No
- ISBN
- 9780670032648
- Book Title
- American Dynasty : Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Genre
- Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
- Topic
- United States / 20th Century, Corruption & Misconduct, Modern / 20th Century, General, Presidents & Heads of State, Economics / General, American Government / General, Political
- Item Weight
- 24.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0670032646
ISBN-13
9780670032648
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30439240
Product Key Features
Book Title
American Dynasty : Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Corruption & Misconduct, Modern / 20th Century, General, Presidents & Heads of State, Economics / General, American Government / General, Political
Genre
Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-061299
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Praise for Wealth and Democracy: As the Bush administration weighs its next moves again the ‘axis of evil,’ many will ponder Phillips’s warning.” (The Washington Post) Praise for Wealth and Democracy: A gritty tour of American history and American fortunes . . . Phillips sits in the Republican pew but has a hymnal all his own.” (Chicago Tribune), Praise for Wealth and Democracy : “As the Bush administration weighs its next moves again the ‘axis of evil,’ many will ponder Phillips’s warning.â€� ( The Washington Post ) Praise for Wealth and Democracy : “A gritty tour of American history and American fortunes . . . Phillips sits in the Republican pew but has a hymnal all his own.â€� ( Chicago Tribune )
Dewey Decimal
973.928/092 B
Table Of Content
CONTENTS preface ix Introduction 1 Part I: Family, Dynasty, and Restoration Chapter 1: The Not-Quite-Royal Family 15 Chapter 2: The Dynastization of America 51 Chapter 3: The First American Restoration 73 Part II: Crony Capitalism, Covert Operations, and Compassionate Conservatism Chapter 4: Texanomics and Compassionate Conservatism 111 Chapter 5: The Enron-Halliburton Administration 149 Chapter 6: Armaments and Men: The Bush Dynasty and the National Security State 178 Part III: Religion, Oil, Armaments, and War Chapter 7: The American Presidency and the Rise of the Religious Right 211 Chapter 8: Indiana Bush and the Axis of Evil 245 Chapter 9: The Wars of the Texas Succession 278 Afterword: Machiavelli and the American Dynastic Moment 320 acknowledgments 333 appendix a: Armaments and the Walker-Bush Family, 1914ñ40 335 appendix b: Deception, Dissimulation, and Disinformation 343 notes 349 index 373
Synopsis
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 Dynastyexplains how it happened and what it all means.
LC Classification Number
E882.P48 2004
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