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Kevin Phillips - Fmr. GOP Strategist
Kevin Phillips is a former top Republican strategist. He first became well known in 1969 with the publication of his book his book The Emerging Republican Majority which Newsweek described as “the political bible of the Nixon Administration.”
After Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980, Phillips was generally acknowledged as the Republican party’s principal electoral theoretician. In 1982, the Wall Street Journal described him as “the leading conservative electoral analyst—the man who invented the Sun Belt, named the New Right, and prophesied ‘The Emerging Republican Majority’ in 1969.”
He has since become a prolific writer and a critic of the current state of the Republican Party. Among his books are Wealth and Democracy and The Politics of Rich and Poor.
February 17, 2004 A Multigenerational Family of Fibbers–Fmr. Top Republican Strategist Examines the History of the Bush Family
January 12, 2004 American Dynasty: Fmr. Top Republican Strategist Discusses The Bush Family’s Rise To Power Since WWI
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