From: "Mark Hessey" 

"Steve Ewing"  wrote: Paul Krugman reviews
"American Dynasty...

Krugman reviewing an anti-Bush screed, there's a laugh for a Sunday morning
:-)

Still in the NYTimes "family" via their wholly owned IHT
subsidiary, but not an obvious partisan hack like Krugman's, is a review by
Michiko Kakutani:

"... a high-decibel, high-dudgeon rant against what he sees as their
dynastic ambitions and their shared biases and motives...

There are biting riffs indebted to the work of other writers like Molly
Ivins, Michael Lind, Chalmers Johnson and Seymour Hersh; strained efforts
to connect a wide array of scandals and possible scandals (from family
links to firms with investments in Nazi Germany to the Iran-Contra affair),
and large heapings of conspiratorial conjecture that undermine his more
persuasive arguments ...

... the narrative of "American Dynasty" is so discursive, its
ambitions so amorphous, that the book all too often devolves into a simple
litany of accusations against the Bushes, some grounded in careful
research, others based on little more than innuendo and speculation. Intent
on underscoring similarities between them, Phillips tends to skate over
their considerable differences ...

In the end they make this feel less like a considered examination of the
Bush family legacy and more like an ill-tempered diatribe filmed by Oliver
Stone."
http://www.iht.com/articles/126813.html

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