Four generations of deceit, indifference to people’s problems and shady business dealings. In this book, Phillips lays out a devastating historical case against the Bush family. In an era where polarizing politics and shout shows were beginning he was a welcome diversion from the partisan hackery that dominated the 1990s airwaves.Īfter taking a sabbatical from politics writing the excellent The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, And The Triumph Of Anglo-America which talked about the Anglo-American relationship and Lineage, Phillips penned American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush towards the end of George W. In multiple media roles, including for CBS News and US News & World Report he would lay out the intellectual case against Bush’s policies while objectively analyzing the flaws in the Clintonian way. Bush’s term in office he was firmly established as a critic of the Administration’s economic policies and distrustful of the direction the GOP was headed. Phillips always an intellectual and somewhat erudite analyst of politics developed a deep distrust for the Bush family first as a Republican political operative and then as a non-partisan electoral and cultural analyst.
Beginning in that fall semester in 1995, I began vociferously reading anything written by Phillips, something I continue to do up to this day. Kevin Phillips, who was dubbed in 1995 by one of my Political Science Professors at the University of Florida as “the smartest Republican around,” is widely viewed as the chief architect of the 1968 Nixon “Southern Strategy” which for 20 years remade the Presidential Electoral map. With Jeb Bush sniffing around a bid for the Presidency in 2016 now is the perfect time to discuss a timeless classic.
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