[mdefranc]

To the best of my knowledge, Kevin Phillips always has been a liberal Republican and NEVER has been a conservative. He has a right-wing reputation only because of his first book, "The Emerging Republican Majority", published in 1969. That book was a brilliant, objective analysis of why the GOP would dominant presidential politics for decades to come. I was told that Phillips was a Young Republican, but on the wrong side within the organization. He worked in the Nixon Justice Department. ALL his later political books have displayed an anti-liberty, pro-government bias typical of elitist, northeastern RINOs.

[summer]

That book was a brilliant, objective analysis

Your comment brings me to another point I was pondering: Why is this book "American Dynasty" even called "non-fiction"? This authors struggles in the beginning to claim that the dynasty is a FACT, but the way I see it - you have to actually WIN elections in this country. Gov Bush lost by the narrowest of margins in his first race for gov - no one was waiting around to "crown" him governor, which is what this title implies, and implies wrongly, IMO. If the author has a different opinion that I do (and, a bunch of non-facts painted as facts) that he wants to throw in, then I think his book should be in a new category of books called OPINION books. Just as we now have "SELF-HELP" books, so too should book stores start recognizing that some authors are NOT sticking to "facts" - they are offering their own opinions. The long editorials should NOT be labeled as "non-fiction." What if some student relies on this book for facts? The kid would look like an idiot claiming Gov Bush's 1994 running mate was "Tom Mooney."