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Political Historian Kevin Phillips to Speak at Westminster
Noted political historian and author Kevin Phillips will visit Westminster School Oct. 31 to address students and faculty about the forthcoming elections and where America is headed. The event will take place in the Werner Centennial Center.
For more than three decades, Phillips has written and commented about the dynamics of political change in America and the role of wealth in democracy.
In his New York Times’ bestsellers, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy, he established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that are ruling – and imperiling – the U.S. In his most recent book, American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, he uncovers and assails the political coalition, led by radical religion, that he believes is driving the country to the brink of disaster.
A one time Republican strategist, Phillips has become a powerful critic of the party and its abandonment of its own principles. One of his first books, The Emerging Republican Majority, set the strategy for Richard Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign and transformed the American political landscape for the generation that followed.
Phillips has served as a strategic advisor to President Nixon, a former editor-publisher of American Political Report, a contributing columnist to the Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal, a regular commentator for National Public Radio, a commentator for CBS News, and has authored 12 books including The Cousins Wars, Boiling Point, and Arrogant Capital.
In reviewing his 1993 book Boiling Point, the "New York Times Book Review" said that “through more than 25 years of analysis and predictions, nobody has been as transcendentally right about the outlines of American political change as Kevin Phillips.”
Phillips was educated at Colgate, the University of Edinburgh and Harvard Law School. He now lives in Litchfield County, Conn.
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For more than three decades, Phillips has written and commented about the dynamics of political change in America and the role of wealth in democracy.
In his New York Times’ bestsellers, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy, he established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that are ruling – and imperiling – the U.S. In his most recent book, American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, he uncovers and assails the political coalition, led by radical religion, that he believes is driving the country to the brink of disaster.
A one time Republican strategist, Phillips has become a powerful critic of the party and its abandonment of its own principles. One of his first books, The Emerging Republican Majority, set the strategy for Richard Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign and transformed the American political landscape for the generation that followed.
Phillips has served as a strategic advisor to President Nixon, a former editor-publisher of American Political Report, a contributing columnist to the Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal, a regular commentator for National Public Radio, a commentator for CBS News, and has authored 12 books including The Cousins Wars, Boiling Point, and Arrogant Capital.
In reviewing his 1993 book Boiling Point, the "New York Times Book Review" said that “through more than 25 years of analysis and predictions, nobody has been as transcendentally right about the outlines of American political change as Kevin Phillips.”
Phillips was educated at Colgate, the University of Edinburgh and Harvard Law School. He now lives in Litchfield County, Conn.
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