![]() The Bush family has brought the American political system to a "perilous state," he believes, due to their cunning brand of petro-politics. The most recent two George Bushes aren't evil people, Phillips argues, just greedy and ambitious Ivy League Texans. foreign policy through international business ventures that benefited the family. ![]() Essentially, he traces how four generations of Bushes corrupted U.S. Unlike the recent spate of anti-Bush books, Phillips' American Dynasty - an erudite manifesto on the dangers of cronyism, hereditary privilege, "paper entrepreneurialism," and tax shelters - is devastating due to its analytical fair-mindedness. “Its sense of how to win elections comes out of a CIA manual, not out of the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution."ī/books?hl=en&id=Wt圓o92hyigC&dq=&. "Now what I get a sense of from all of this - and then topped obviously by spending all the money in 2000 to basically buy the election - is that this is not a family that has a particularly strong commitment to American democracy. ![]() ![]() American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush - by Kevin Phillips ![]()
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