There’s aggressive, amoral banker George Herbert Walker-even his family didn’t like him-the original source of the family gift for turning insider’s knowledge into profit. It’s also a screed, political genealogy as rogues’ gallery (a familiar enough genre in Kennedy literature), tracing various nefarious qualities through several generations. He kept thinking that the American public would notice this, too.Īmerican Dynasty (Viking $25.95) wears the mantle of historiography, but it’s a different kind of book- an indictment of the Bush family for un-American activities: impersonating royalty. He began a slow-motion apostasy in the eighties, as he gradually began to realize that the Republicans were the party of the rich, and the rich were getting richer. His 1969 book The Emerging Republican Majority got him a job in the Nixon White House (he languished in John Mitchell’s Justice Department, and quit in 1970).īack then, however, a Bush dynasty was not exactly what Phillips had in mind. As a young politics wonk poring over voting figures in the mid-sixties, he realized that the Democratic Party was growing estranged from many of its traditional constituents, and that the South was ready for a shift. Kevin Phillips is that rarest of creatures, a reverse neocon, a Republican who has seen the light. Bush men: Accused of un-American activities for impersonating a monarchy.
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