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American dynasty : aristocracy, fortune, and the politics of deceit in the house of Bush / Kevin Phillips.

Title: American dynasty : aristocracy, fortune, and the politics of deceit in the house of Bush / Kevin Phillips.
Author: Phillips, Kevin, 1940-2023
Publication: New York : Viking, 2004.

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Description

xiv, 397 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

A critical portrait of the Bush political dynasty describes their rise to power over the course of four generations, arguing that the Bush family has used its financial and social empire to gain the White House.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biography
Biographies
History
Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-372) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Introduction -- pt. 1. Family, Dynasty, and restoration -- ch. 1. The not-quite-royal family -- ch. 2. The dynastization of America -- ch. 3. The first American restoration -- pt. 2. Crony capitalism, covert operations, and compassionate conservatism -- ch. 4. Texanomics and compassionate conservatism -- ch. 5. The Enron-Halliburton administration -- ch. 6. Armaments and men : the Bush dynasty and the national security state -- pt. 3. Religion, oil, armaments, and war -- ch. 7. The American presidency and the rise of the Religious Right -- ch. 8. Indiana Bush and the axis of evil -- ch. 9. The wars of the Texas succession -- Afterword : Machiavelli and the American dynastic moment -- Acknowledgments -- appendix A. Armaments and the Walker-Bush Family, 1914-40 -- appendix B. Deception, dissimulation, and disinformation -- Notes -- Index.

ISBN

0670032646 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003061299

OCLC

52979120
SCSB-10359893

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library