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Summary: Phillips is the most legitimate commentator out there.
Review: Kevin Phillips is the most legitimate political and economic commentator and writer out there. He is respected by academics of all schools of thought (liberal, conservative, and indepdendent) and has over 3 decades of experience in politics. He showed what this family, like many others in politics have come to be: concerned with just their self-interests at the expense of the well-being of the nation as a whole. Many have said President Bush's agenda serves no one but himself and those in his small sanctum, and Phillips clearly brings this argument to life. What Phillips has previously shown to be dangerous, the concentration of wealth at the top and its adverse effect on politics, he develops further to argue that if our politicians focus only on the interests of the self and completely ignore the interests of the greater society, then society will be all the worse off because of it. I, among other readers, am convinced that there is a smear campaign here. Please read these reviews carefully and Consider the source.
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Summary: Detailed, Documented and Devastating
Review: A devastating history of four generations of Bushes and Walkers, Phillips' book is also a scholarly examination of how that history forms the policy and decisions of George W. Bush.Early in the book the prudish and moralistic Phillips comes down especially hard on President Clinton, the book suffers a little from a non-chronological approach from chapter to chapter, and there are so many quotes and so much documentation that it required me to take it slower than normal. Still, it remains very readable. Even a political junkie will find a mountain of new information. BCCI, Halliburton, Harken, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Wall Street, fundamentalists (both Christian and Muslim), Carlyle, Enron, the CIA .... the list goes on and on. This family of mediocre - especially in the last two generations - people has made its fortune in money and power through contacts and secrecy, not merit. Gordon Geckos without the brains. People speak of a Kennedy dynasty but, until now, not a Bush dynasty. Yet, as Phillips shows, the Bush dynasty is vastly more powerful, vastly more egotistical, vastly more clandestine and vastly more corrupt. No other book brings together more information on the Bushes, and no other book exposes so much new information. It's truly devastating.
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Summary: ... It's good!
Review: As a moderate who has ACTUALLY READ the book, I must say it is very well-written, well-researched, and eye-opening. Most of these things you already know. But this book ties it all together in a way that really makes you think.
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Summary: Great insight into the current administration.
Review: Great book. Explains much of the current administration's actions.
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Summary: Conspiracy Theory Writing Run Amuck
Review: Kudos to Kevin Phillips for writing such entertaining and imaginative conspiracy-theory prose. He highlights and expands on all the same nutty Bush-bashing rubbish spewed by the Left since before Election 2000. Using all the loaded buzzwords that stir anger in the hearts of passionate liberals: "Halliburton," "Iraqgate," and "BCCI," Phillips makes sweeping assumptions, and draws cynical myopic conclusions in a profoundly "Buchanan" way. After reading his work, one feels Phillips left out critical information in building his case against the Bush clan. What about the secret phone line between the White House and the Trilateral Commission? What about the Rockefellers' control over Bush's appointments? What about the clandestine cabal of New York bankers that really runs things? Perhaps Phillips should consult televangelist Pat Robertson before sitting down to write again. Or maybe Phillips is just part of a conspiracy, too.
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Summary: PLease read the Book...Not the reviewers...including ME
Review: It's unfortunate that some people will simply discard any idea distant from their own...This book is well written and smacks of truth on every page. The fact that it was penned by a former Republican has many conservative gnashing teeth and throwing barbs. If it had been a book by Sidney Blumenthal going after Clinton they would hail it as a work of remarkable strength. It is.
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Summary: I just couldn't find anything useful in this book
Review: [...] I just came back from [book store] (they had 1 copy) and I spent an hour reading and re-reading this book while enjoying a coffee. There is absolutely nothing in-between the covers but dead air and empty space. This book is a loser and a snoozer. If it wasn't for the coffee, I would have fallen asleep...yaaaawwwwnnnnn. What a boring and stupid book.
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Summary: Factually based and well researched
Review: Kevin Phillips is not just any ordinary author. In a similar fashion to John Dean, Phillips supplies a factual basis for his run from the Republican party. He once served as a Nixon strategist. Phillips traces the Bush/Walker family from Samuel Bush and George Herbert Walker to the current President and exposes the connections of the family to arms dealing, Wall Street banks, and of course the oil industry. Phillips has an easy to read writing style and the book is well researched with readily available citations. If you are looking for a book about the Bush family beyond the fluff, then look no further. This book is a goldmine for anyone who has reservations about the little known and rarely examined Bush family. What do you really know about them? Do you know as much about the Bushes as you do about the Kennedys? If you don't, or think you do, then take a chance and read.
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Summary: The Bush family and the Nazis
Review: A fantastic expose of a despicable family. Why doesn't it surprise me to learn that the Bush family had ties with the Nazi party (just as it somehow didn't surprise me that the Bushes and Bin Ladens and the Saudi royal family are such great business buddies). shame on the American people for having been duped by such a crowd. Shame!!!! Shame!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: If You've Got A Taste For Terror...
Review: [...] Stolen elections aside, there is an amazing and often disgusting epic story behind Dubya's freakish ascendancy, a tale that can be traced back four generations of Bushes. Former Republican strategist Kevin Phillips has carefully researched the past and ongoing moral corruption and political deceit of this ... dynasty. The reader will learn, with growing horror and outrage, of the deliberate machinations this ... family has employed in order to ultimately provide a political landscape that effortlessly favors the rich at the great expense of the rest of the country. World peace, environmental protections and the nation's economic health have been swept aside as irrelevant in the Bushes non-stop march towards personal prosperity. Phillips' gripping tale leads to one completely unexpected conclusion: GeeDubya and his family are even worse than all of us had thought. AMERICAN DYNASTY is highly recommended, but be warned...it may very well be the year's most grimly horrifying book.
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