Kevin Price Phillips (November 30, 1940 – October 9, 2023) was an American writer and commentator on politics, economics, and history. He emerged as a Republican Party strategist who helped devise its Southern Strategy in the 1960s. Phillips became disaffected with the party by the 1990s, subsequently leaving it to become an independent and staunch critic of the Republicans. He was a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, Harper’s Magazine, and National Public Radio, and was a political analyst on PBS’s NOW with Bill Moyers.
Books in order of publication:
The Emerging Republican Majority (1969)
Mediacracy: American Parties and Politics in the Communications Age (1974)
Electoral Reform and Voter Participation (with Paul H. Blackman, 1975)
Post-Conservative America: People, Politics, and Ideology in a Time of Crisis (1982)
Staying on Top: The Business Case for a National Industrial Strategy (1984)
The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath (1990
Boiling Point: Democrats, Republicans, and the Decline of Middle Class Prosperity (1993)
Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street and the Frustration of American Politics (1994)
The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America (1999)
Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich (2002)
William McKinley (The American Presidents Series: The 25th President, 1897-1901) (2003)
American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush (2004)
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century (2006)
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism (2008)
After the Fall: The Inexcusable Failure of American Finance: An Update to Bad Money (2009)
1775: A Good Year for Revolution (2012)
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