History and Rise of the Bush Administration


A wonderfully insightful overview of the Bush family by Kevin Phillips. Kevin Phillips is an American writer and commentator, largely on politics, economics, and history. He is a former Republican Party strategist. He is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio, and is a political analyst on PBS' NOW with Bill Moyers.

Phillips was a senior strategist for Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign, which was the basis for a book, The Emerging Republican Majority, which predicted a conservative realignment in national politics, and is widely regarded as one of the most influential recent works in political science. His predictions regarding shifting voting patterns in presidential elections proved accurate, though they did not extend "down ballot" to Congress until the Republican revolution of 1994.

The video below is from the Series: "Great American Writers" [6/2004] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 8702]