This text provides an account of the ascent of the Bush family to the pinnacle of the American political and social elite and the implications of the dynasty's hold on power for democracy in America.
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| preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Family, Dynasty, and Restoration | |
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| The Not-Quite-Royal Family | |
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| The Dynastization of America | |
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| The First American Restoration | |
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| Crony Capitalism, Covert Operations, and Compassionate Conservatism | |
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| Texanomics and Compassionate Conservatism | |
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| The Enron-Halliburton Administration | |
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| Armaments and Men: The Bush Dynasty and the National Security State | |
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| Religion, Oil, Armaments, and War | |
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| The American Presidency and the Rise of the Religious Right | |
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| Indiana Bush and the Axis of Evil | |
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| The Wars of the Texas Succession | |
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| Afterword: Machiavelli and the American Dynastic Moment | |
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| acknowledgments | |
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| Armaments and the Walker-Bush Family, 1914�40 | |
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| Deception, Dissimulation, and Disinformation | |
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| notes | |
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| index | |
