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By Peter Schweizer Over the course of the first three months of this election year, no book on the Bushes and the Bush presidency has sold more copies than Kevin Phillips's American Dynasty. Having spent 11 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list (currently, it's Number 4), it has been praised by Times columnist Paul Krugman as "remarkable." Yet, surprisingly, it has received little scrutiny. In the past, Phillips has written books that were based on solid documentation and used historical and economic data. Agree with him or not, you could tell that he had done his homework. But...

Note from summer: This is a true story. I was in Barnes & Nobel today, and I happened to pick up a new, non-fiction, NYT best-seller, anti-Bush book, published in January 2004, titled: American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush by Kevin Phillips It is currently ranked #3 on the NYT Best Seller list for hardcover, non-fiction. Here is the cover of the book: I was reading a few pages about FL Gov Jeb Bush, and thinking it was nothing I hadn't seen before on some Dem web site, until I got to...

Conservative Historian Links Bush Family to Oil Scandals By DYLAN FOLEYFeaturewell (02-24-04) In his new book “American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush” (Viking, $25.95), historian and political commentator Kevin Phillips, a populist social critic who has decried the growing gap between rich and poor, writes a scathing assessment of the four-generation Bush dynasty that includes the forty-third President George W. Bush. Phillips follows the Bush family preoccupations with the finance industry, oil and covert operations, and the scandals they have been attached to, from Iran-Contra to Enron. Phillips traces the rise...

Kevin Phillips, author of a best-selling book that is harshly critical of President Bush, said Friday that the Atlanta History Center had withdrawn an invitation for him to speak next Wednesday for political reasons. The History Center said the invitation to Phillips, author of "American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush," had been merely "tentative." Spokeswoman Hillary Hardwick said Phillips' talk and planned book-signing, scheduled for Wednesday evening, had been canceled while planners were finalizing the center's regular schedule of speakers. Andy Ambrose, deputy director of the center, issued a written statement Friday...

AMERICAN DYNASTY Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush. By Kevin Phillips. 397 pp. New York: Viking. $25.95. In "American Dynasty," his furious jeremiad against the Bush family, Kevin Phillips does not explicate the many differences between President George W. Bush and his father, or their very different brands of foreign policy. Instead he delivers a high-decibel, high-dudgeon rant against what he sees as their dynastic ambitions and their shared biases and motives. "Dynasties," he declares at the start of this book, "tend to show continuities of policy and interest-group bias — in the case...

http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/schedule.csp SpeechAmerican Dynasty Borders Books & Music Washington, District of Columbia (United States)ID: 179790 - 01/05/2004 - 1:03 - $29.95 Phillips, Kevin, Editor and Publisher, [American Political Report] Mr. Phillips talked about his book American Dynasty about the Bush family’s political activities over several generations. His remarks focused on the family ties to business and the intelligence community, as well as their use of Machiavellian methods in wielding power. Following his remarks he answered questions from the audience.