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American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush: How the Bush Clan Became the World's Most Powerful and Dangerous Family Book
Paraphrasing a passage from Machiavelli's The Prince, Kevin Phillips writes "a ruler can ignore the mob and devote himself to the interests of the ruling class, gulling the inert majority who constitute the ruled". He then says "Borgia references aside, 21st-century American readers of The Prince may feel that they have stumbled on a thinly disguised Bush White House political memo". These pointed words would sting regardless of who uttered them, but coming from Phillips, a former Republican strategist, they have an added piquancy. In American Dynasty: How the Bush Clan Became the World's Most Powerful and Dangerous Family, Phillips traces the rise of the Bush family from investment banking elites to political power brokers, using their Ivy League network, vast wealth and questionable … read more...
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