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050 00 $aE882$b.P48 2004
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100 1 $aPhillips, Kevin,$d1940-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50010293
245 10 $aAmerican dynasty :$baristocracy, fortune, and the politics of deceit in the house of Bush /$cKevin Phillips.
260 $aNew York :$bViking,$c2004.
300 $axiv, 397 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [349]-372) and index.
520 1 $a"Despite their years in the political limelight, the Bushes are the family nobody really knows - so contends Kevin Phillips, onetime Republican strategist and one of the country's premier political and economic commentators. The cozy imagery of Maine summer cottages, a gray-haired national grandmother, and cowboy boots has emphasized comforting family values. It has also distracted us from the fact that the Bush family has used all its resources to create a political dynasty that has gained the White House to further its family and ideological agenda, which would have horrified America's founding fathers. They, after all, led a revolution against a succession of royal Georges." "In this book, Phillips reveals how four generations of Bushes, beginning with the original alliance between George Herbert Walker and Samuel P. Bush, have ascended the ladder of national power since World War I, solidifying their place in the American establishment - at Yale, on Wall Street, in the Senate, the CIA, the vice presidency, and the White House. The Bush family has never produced a doctor, judge, teacher, scholar, or lawyer of note. As far back as World War I, the family's single-minded focus has been on three major areas: intelligence, energy, and national security. It is no coincidence that these three categories of Bush family operations were also three of the key enterprises of the American twentieth century." "Phillips demonstrates how the Bush family has perfectly exemplified many of the growing trends in American political life - policy favoritism to the top 1 percent, paper entrepreneurialism, and crony capitalism a la Enron (the Bushes' dealings with Enron go back to 1986). Far more than any previous political family, it represents an interlock between the hitherto temporary presidency and permanent government. As such, the family has threaded its way through political and armaments scandals and, since the 1980s, faint hints of acts that might in another climate have led to presidential impeachment."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aBush, George,$d1924-2018.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80015879
600 10 $aBush, George W.$q(George Walker),$d1946-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95049848
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650 0 $aPoliticians$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109188
650 0 $aAristocracy (Political science)$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWealth$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPolitical corruption$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109578
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140467
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1989-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001744
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