![]() ![]() The two Adams presidents were elected a quarter-century apart and represented different parties the two Roosevelts were separated by two decades and came from different branches of the family and any Kennedy dynastic aspirations were thwarted by bizarre twists of fate. Bush - is unprecedented in American history. ![]() Bush only eight years after the public's repudiation of his father, George H.W. Phillips, an experienced political strategist and former White House aide, is correct to say that what he calls the Bush "restoration" - the election to the White House in 2000 of George W. ![]() IN this angry, devastating examination of "the House of Bush," Kevin Phillips asks the question that seems to have occurred to no one else: How did these people get so entitled? How is it that a family in no way distinguished by genuine accomplishment, political conviction or exceptional intelligence has managed to lay claim as a matter of right to the American presidency, and how is it - this is the real puzzler - that the American people seem to have acquiesced in this presumption? ![]()
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