Kevin Phillips to expose BFEE?

[villager]

Just had a look at Viking's catalog of winter book releases. The very first page has this:

AMERICAN DYNASTY: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush

by
Kevin Phillips


Among the tidbits from the book description:

"...has let national politics create a dynasticized Presidency that would have horrified America's founding fathers. They, after all, had led a revolution against a succession of royal Georges."

"In this devastating book, onetime Republican strategist Phillips reveals how four generations of Bushes have ascended the ladder of national power since World War One..."

"By uncovering relationships and connecting facts with new clarity, Phillips comes to a stunning conclusion: The Bush family has systematically used its financial and social empire -- its 'aristocracy' -- to gain the White House, thereby subverting the very core of American democracy."

There's more. Worth a read, methinks.

Note that Phillips was a key strategist for the Nixon White House...(!)

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

1. Ah, that magic word "aristocracy"

I seem to remember using it once ...

[villager]

2. does using that word...

...make you an elitist?
;-)

[blm]

3. This is GREAT!

With the BCCI-Bank of England trial starting in January, the BFEE will be on the ropes.

[MadHound]

4. Looking forward to this book, Phillips is an excellent author

The fact that he was part of the Nixon administration only makes his work more powerful, you know if a Nixonian is telling us were fucked, well then we are well and truly fucked.

Another good book to check out by this author is Wealth and Democracy. It lays out how the ordinary person has been getting screwed for the past twenty years, especially the last fifteen.

[izzie]

7. So am I, he must be a social science type man.

Seems to write in that vain.

[Sideways]

13. I am going to be pedantic because this shit drives me crazy

Izzie it is vein NOT vain. Vain is what the dipshit in some horrible Carly Simon song is all about.

[Karenina]

15. BWHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Mary T, you're lucky I just swallowed that last gulp! Otherwise I'd be on you about my keyboard!!!!!

[villager]

25. maybe Phillips really believes that "for the little guy" stuff...

...and it forced him to question where the power really lies in America, and in his political party...

[PurityOfEssence]

5. "Wealth and Democracy" was brilliant

He's a very good man and very dangerous to the right. Once a young Nixon guy, he saw the light in a big way.

[Octafish]

6. Phillips is a real Repub who HATES Bush.

... with good reason. Philips was on the Bush Organized Crime Family (or Bush rOil Family, as our GOP brethren believe) BEFORE Selection 2000.

Thanks for the heads-up, villager! I look forward to the book.



Mirror, mirror on the wall: Who is Number One?

[Karenina]

8. Now THIS is a HOT tidbit!

GO KEVIN!!! BRING IT ON!!! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[RamboLiberal]

9. Yes - I checked Amazon - not up yet

But soon as it is I'm ordering this one.

[KoKo]

10. Sounds Good! Great Holiday Gift if one has "Dem" Relatives!

Thanks!

[RamboLiberal]

11. Be a good gift for Repug relatives as well

:evilgrin:

[carolinayellowdog]

12. Drip, drip, drip... books will bring down the BFEE

just as TV and newspapers inflicted it upon the world. It takes a lot longer to write a serious book than it does to create a soundbite, and the forces of darkness have had the advantage for the last three years. But steadily the truth about the BFEE has been better understood by the few, just in time to EXPLODE into public consciousness now, as with Franken's #1 bestseller. Conason and Corn. Ivins and Hightower. Knowing the truth about the BFEE will set us free. None of these authors has the intellectual power of Phillips and I predict that his book will be the most influential of all with serious readers. As to nonserious readers--what the hell is up with Kitty Kelley? She can handle the tabloid-fodder end of the task, and surely has a thousand sleazy anecdotes to share.

[villager]

14. right--

--we need her to anchor the other end of the bookshelf on the Bushie exposes!

[janekat]

21. Unfortunately, I think WE'RE the only ones who read....

The great majority of the pinheads who support Bush probably haven't read a book since high school, never ever read the paper and get their news from the tonight show.

[RamboLiberal]

16. B&N has it on their site - Says available Jan 5th

I'm going to mark that date to visit my local B&N for a lunch date.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=15T9GHWXL0&sourceid=00404336267536618188&bfdate=09%2D19%2D2003+18%3A31%3A02&isbn=0670032646&itm=6

Amazon has it listed as well

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0670032646/qid=1064010989/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-4157937-4113529?v=glance

[villager]

18. Viking will also release a book next spring...

...by Eric Alterman and one-time NY Mayoral candidate Mark Green, on how Bush is chronically incapable of telling the truth -- and how that affects his policies:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0670032735/qid=1064015045/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/103-2350269-8923819?v=glance

[FauxNewsBlues]

19. The retarded media can be pressured

If we actually support authors who speak truth to power, they can not ignore it as easily.

I have this fantasy of 50,000 progressive people, saving up say $250, and buying 10 liberal themed books each, all in the same week. Literally, that few people, can literally take out the entire top 10 of the NY times best sellers list on a typical week.

Just 50,000 people, or about 1/5 people in Anchorage Alaska, could literally do something like this if it was co-ordinated. Could you imagine the shit fest that would go on if the top 10 books that week were by these authors?:

Al Franken, Joe Conason, Michael Moore, Jim Hightower, Molly Ivans, Eric Alterman, James Carville, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, David Corn.

It would so challenge the right wing attackers method of institutionally buying Hannity and Coulter, and dumping the books for a few bucks each on conservative book buyers groups at a loss.

I have a dream...

[gristy]

22. I think the actions of liberals/progressives can have the impact

you describe without the action even being centrally coordinated. If this book is as powerful as it may be, it will jump to the top on its own. The only thing that might hold it back is Phillips is not as funny as Franken. :)

And note that coordinating the actions of liberals is like herding cats. It can be done, but it's a lot of work.

[RainDog]

23. well, five of them are on this week's nytimes best seller list

Lies and the Lying Liars is #1

the rest are more or less in their order of appearance (and I'm not listing other books which are there)

Living History

Big Lies

Thieves in High Places

Stupid White Men (after a few weeks off, with the DVD release of Bowling For Columbine, seems Moore got back into the top ten)


For a week or two, Baer's Sleeping with the Devil was on the hardback list, as was All The Shah's Men.

Those are hardback nonfiction.

In paperback non-fiction,

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy has been on the NYTimes list, except for a week or two when it was bumped, since it came out in paperback.

For a good while, Gore Vidal's Dreaming War was also on the list with Palast's book, too.

upcoming-

Molly Ivins has a book which should be in stores soon, if not already... Bushwhacked.

Also, Nat Hentoff has a book out about the war against civil liberties.

You mentioned David Corn has a book coming out soon, too.

Have you ever seen the cover for The Clash of Fundamentalisms? --the paperback? Bush looks like an ayatollah. LOL.

[blm]

17. good news bump.

.

[gristy]

20. This could be a very influential book.

I've read his book "Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich", which was very good. Krugman is sure to mention this new book in his column - he mentioned Wealth and Democracy early this year.

[villager]

24. let's hope he makes his case in a way...

...that even the corporate media can't ignore it.