...betrayal of the nation. Kevin Phillips is a national treasure.

Phillips isn't about polemics, he's about facts. He lifts the curtain the corporate behemouths have pulled over America's eyes.

Don't even read Phillips text in Wealth and Democracy, just look at the graphs and charts and their sources. The book is so well documented it scares the bejesus out of the gilded, coddled theives running this nation.

He isn't prognosticating decline, we are already in a decline over thirty years in duration, according to Phillips. This mistake, repeated in the review, leads me to believe this the hack author of the review, really didn't spend much time reading the books.

Phillips' point is that the bush dynasty wedded to cronyism, war, and war profiteering is accelerating the decline.

If you read his books and listen to him speak you realize that Phillips is a careful scholar and not given to polemics or invective. He doesn't limit his analysis to the Bush cabal in Wealth and Democracy nor does engage in conjecture about conspiracies. He tends to avoid generalizations that cannot be supported by facts. What he does do is cite historical data and trends in support of his generalizations, knowing their limitations, and is not given to overstatement. This review is unjustified and unsubstantiated and treats Phillips in depth analysis were somehow specious or illogical.

Wealth and Democracy is a milestone in American political (and economic) analysis which will be studied hundreds of years from now to understand what happened to the great American republic.

This disinformation pandering reveiwer won't even merit a footnote.