Kevin Phillips

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Kevin Phillips is an American, formerly conservative writer and for the last 30 years, a political and economics commentator. He is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times and NPR.

Phillips was a former member of Richard Nixon's staff, and currently is critic of the George W. Bush administration.

Phillips, the author of nine books, lives in Litchfield, Connecticut.

Books

American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush ISBN 0670032646
The Politics of Rich and Poor
Wealth and Democracy
Arrogant Capital
The Emerging Republican Majority

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Now what I get a sense of from all of this -- and then topped obviously by spending all the money in 2000 to basically buy the election -- is that this is not a family that has a particularly strong commitment to American democracy. Its sense of how to win elections comes out of a CIA manual, not out of the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution."