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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 973.931 Format: Bargain Price Label: Viking Adult Manufacturer: Viking Adult Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 480 Publication Date: March 21, 2006 Publisher: Viking Adult Studio: Viking Adult Related Items:
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 Rating: - Tough, Chilling AnalysisAuthor Kevin Phillips examines U.S. political and economic trends in this searing look at religion, energy, and government spending. Readers see that U.S. foreign policy is strongly, perhaps dangerously influenced by conservative Christians. We also see how the USA is spending itself into danger, and is doing far too little to end its risky dependence on foreign oil. Phillips offers several parallels between between the USA and Britain; for example comparing the questionable U.S. invasion of Iraq ... Read More Rating:  - Hubbert's peek into the present.In the Republican years before Nixon resigned, I perused the editorials each Sunday in our Joplin Globe. Among the syndicated columnists, Jack Anderson & John Roche passed for liberal; Kevin Phillips & Max Rafferty (former superintendent of California Public Schools) were the conservatives. Between the latter, Phillips seemed the more reasoned. Of late, Phillips, who worked like the dickens to get Nixon elected & who like so many of the old Goldwater guard deserted the Republican orthodoxy, ... Read More Rating: - Unconvincing account by a disillusioned RepublicanPhillips doesn't personalize the book in this way, but this is clearly the story of how this life-long Republican activist and presidential advisor fell out of love with his party. As such, it's interesting and it parallels the political journeys of a number of people in my family. He believes the GOP is guilty of two bad sets of policies, those encouraging both public and private debt in the United States, and those policies supporting over-reliance on oil. What is really driving Phillips away ... Read More Rating:  - IncisiveKevin Phillips never fails to cut through the historical fog in documenting the sociopolitical forces at work in the shaping of our current society. Definitely worth your time. Rating: - important bookKevin Phillip has written a well researched and powerful book exposing the stupidities of the Bush Administration and the perilous situation the US is now in. Everyone, especially thoughtful conservatives, should read this. 
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