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Summary: Good but ignores or barely touches upon some of their dirtiest secrets
Comment: Good stuff here on the Bush Family and their many shady dealings going back to the 1800's. I mean it
really is amazing how interwoven this bunch is with so many of the worst elements of the worlds
power brokers for over a 150 years. If this book has a weakness its, although it brings up many of
the the nefarious deeds and dealings of the Bush crime family, that it barely touches on or
completely ignores the worst of the worst that the Bushs have been linked to over the years. It also
tries a bit too hard to try to draw a parrellell between the Bush gangsters and European royalty by
making them into Americans version of a royal family. Still recomended reading though.
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Summary: Very Pleased
Comment: This was an in-depth review of the rise of the Bush family in American politics and business, from a
conservative writer no less. I was impressed by the amount of research and will certainly read my
books written by this author.
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Summary: Excellent Historical Analysis
Comment: Kevin Phillips offers a comprehensive history of the Bush family and its activities at the nexus of
US the oil, finance, and national security complex. This is most valuable if one understands the
Bush family not as a source of unmitigated evil, but rather as an example of the US class structure
at work. What is truly valuable in Phillips's history is the insight it provides into how power is
wielded and major decisions are made. The book is heavily footnoted so that the reader can refer to
other resources to back up contentious claims or to further explore relevant subjects.
/>My major concern about this book is its unnecessary anti-Bush bias. This bias may seem subtle to
the sympathetic liberal reader or blatant to the conservative reader, but objective readers of
either persuasion will agree that it is there. The problem with this is that there is no need for
this bias. The true value of the book lies in its explication of how one family has benefited from
the power structures inherent in US society.
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Summary: a friend told me about this author
Comment: Good book, not the usual Bush~bashing spiel. Rather than having an axe to grind, the author seemed
objectively concerned. I'm not really into politics because of all the goofy partisan bickering,
but my politically~inclined friend recommended this to me as a book that lacks that aspect. />
Ivan Rorick
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Summary: Never mentions Resolution 678
Comment: This was issued by the UN demanding Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait by January 1991. The section in
this book about President George H.W. Bush's dealing with Iraq is too misinformative in that lacks
too many vital facts about how bad Saddam was in his handling the invasion of Kuwait and why he
invaded. Not mention of Saddam's great debts he owed Kuwait in 1990(from the Iran/Iraq he mostly
started) or his attempt to make Kuwait the "19th province" of Iraq. Author Phillips makes it sound
like Bush just wanted to kick Saddam out of Kuwait just to get a better name for himself (Bush).
Phillips is also too sympathetic of Saddam's invasion of Kuwait (talking about Kuwait drilling a bit
into Iraqi territory) like this merited an entire Kuwait invasion by Saddam.

We get no
real indication of Saddam's terrible butchery of Kurds in Iraq in the 1980's and early 90's. Nor his
bombing of Tel Aviv. Phillips talks of Saddam as a vicious strongman able to make Iraq steady. Not
only is this too vague a reference to Saddam's massive evil deeds but it isn't true. During the
Iran-Iraq war Saddam saw much of southern Iraq go up in flames due to invading Iranian armies in
Iraq. Book, in short, is too hard on the older George Bush (and younger who dealt the final
appropriate blow to Saddam) and too easy on Saddam.

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