American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.99 (916 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 067003486X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 462 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Phillips identifies the escalating clout of the financial services industry and suggests that Americans should emulate policies in Asia that encourage savings and in Europe that encourage manufacturing. From Publishers Weekly The title of political analyst Phillips's latest book may overstate his case (in the text, he prefers the term "theocratic direction"), but his analysis likely will strike chords among those troubled by our current political moment. All rights reserved. debt—from national to household—keep setting records, he observes in his section on "Borrowed Prosperity," and the real estate boom spurred by the Federal Reserve, he argues, cannot continue. Expect him to make some provocative appearances on chat shows. (Mar.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . The lesson of the pa
From America’s premier political analyst, an explosive examination of the axis of religion, politics, and borrowed money that threatens to destroy the nation In his two most recent New York Times bestselling books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that are ruling—and imperiling—the United States. oil dependence—together these factors are undermining our nation’s security, solvency, and standing in the world. With an eye on the past and a searing vision of the future, Phillips has written a book that no American can afford to ignore.. It is this same axis of ills that has come to define America’s political and economic identity in the past decade. Military miscalculations in the Middle East, the surge of fundamentalist religion, the staggering national debt, the costs of U.S. Now, Phillips takes an uncompromising view of the political coalition, led by radical religion, that is driving America to the brink of disaster. From Ancient Rome to the British Empire, Phillips demonstrates that every world-dominatin
"Well researched and balanced" according to Neil. There is (I think) a growing group of people who call themselves Republicans but are increasingly disgusted with the people who lead the Republican party, and the direction that they take both the party and the nation. I am one of those who has been increasingly disaffected for years, and Kevin Phillips appears to be as well based on his recent writing. I am a long-time fan of Mr. Phillips, as someone who has the courage to see something that he has in the past and still wants to identify with unravel and decline in front of him, and give voice to the fru. "American Theocracy: Political.Economic Pundit Keven Philllip's gloomy survey of America in the present day" according to C. M Mills. Viewers of C-Span and readers of his many books on politcs and economics have come to rely on the sober judgments of Kevin Phillips. The former White House strategist in the Nixon years has grown disillusioned with the politics of big oil, fundamentalistic religion and our nation's mad leap into the economic abyss of huge national and personal debt. Phillips deals with these three major problems with well argued prosed, statistics to back up his position and a thorough knowledge of the players involved from the Bushes to the Congress. A brief survey of wh. "read it" according to Ronald M. Pruette. a good read and look at one of the key question the nation faces