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Bad Cop (DVD)
Johnny Strong, Kevin Phillips, Costas Mandylor, Sean Patrick Flanery, Tom Berenger, …
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Action thriller set in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. Johnny
Strong stars as Sean Riley, a beleaguered police detective
struggling to cope with the recent death of his young son and the
subsequent breakdown of his marriage. After a call goes horribly
wrong, Riley looks set to lose his job. But before he goes he is
paired with young homicide Detective Will Ganz (Kevin Phillips) to
solve a series of brutal murders that have sent the city spiralling
into gang warfare. However, the clues lead the duo to uncover
something much bigger and more sinister than either could have
imagined.
Triple bill of police thrillers. 'Big Bang' (2011) stars Antonio
Banderas as a Los Angeles private detective handed an unusual
assignment. When Ned Cruz (Banderas) is approached by a Russian
boxer (Robert Maillet) to find his missing girlfriend (Sienna
Guillory) and the $30 million worth of diamonds in her possession,
it is clear that this will not be an everyday job. Can Cruz make
sense of the bizarre circumstances and track down the missing girl?
'Bad Cop' (2010) is an action thriller set in post-Hurricane
Katrina New Orleans. Johnny Strong stars as Sean Riley, a
beleaguered police detective struggling to cope with the recent
death of his young son and the subsequent breakdown of his
marriage. After a call goes horribly wrong, Riley looks set to lose
his job - unless he can solve a series of brutal murders that have
sent the city spiralling into gang warfare. In 'Operation Endgame'
(2010) a top-secret facility underneath Washington D.C. finds two
competing teams of assassins - code-named according to a deck of
Tarot cards - at work. When a new employee known only as The Fool
(Joe Anderson) arrives for his first day of work, he is alarmed to
find his new boss murdered and the entire building rigged with
explosives. The Fool must race against the clock to identify the
killer and make his escape. Zach Galifianakis, Brandon T. Jackson
and Maggie Q co-star.
A groundbreaking account of the American Revolution--from the
bestselling author of "American Dynasty"
In this major new work, iconoclastic historian and political
chronicler Kevin Phillips upends the conventional reading of the
American Revolution by debunking the myth that 1776 was the
struggle's watershed year. Focusing on the great battles and events
of 1775, Phillips surveys the political climate, economic
structures, and military preparations of the crucial year that was
the harbinger of revolution, tackling the eighteenth century with
the same skill and perception he has shown in analyzing
contemporary politics and economics. The result is a dramatic
account brimming with original insights about the country we
eventually became.
The Bushes are the family nobody really knows, says Kevin
Phillips. This popular lack of acquaintance--nurtured by gauzy
imagery of Maine summer cottages, gray-haired national
grandmothers, July Fourth sparklers, and cowboy boots--has let
national politics create a dynasticized presidency that would have
horrified America's founding fathers. They, after all, had led a
revolution against a succession of royal Georges.
In this devastating book, onetime Republican strategist Phillips
reveals how four generations of Bushes have ascended the ladder of
national power since World War One, becoming entrenched within the
American establishment--Yale, Wall Street, the Senate, the CIA, the
vice presidency, and the presidency--through a recurrent flair for
old-boy networking, national security involvement, and political
deception. By uncovering relationships and connecting facts with
new clarity, Phillips comes to a stunning conclusion: The Bush
family has systematically used its financial and social empire--its
"aristocracy"--to gain the White House, thereby subverting the very
core of American democracy. In their ambition, the Bushes
ultimately reinvented themselves with brilliant timing, twisting
and turning from silver spoon Yankees to born-again evangelical
Texans. As America--and the world--holds its breath for the 2004
presidential election, American Dynasty explains how it happened
and what it all means.
For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it. His bestselling books, including The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) and The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990), have influenced presidential campaigns and changed the way America sees itself. Widely acknowledging Phillips as one of the nation's most perceptive thinkers, reviewers have called him a latter-day Nostradamus and our "modern Thomas Paine." Now, in the first major book of its kind since the 1930s, he turns his attention to the United States' history of great wealth and power, a sweeping cavalcade from the American Revolution to what he calls "the Second Gilded Age" at the turn of the twenty-first century.
The Second Gilded Age has been staggering enough in its concentration of wealth to dwarf the original Gilded Age a hundred years earlier. However, the tech crash and then the horrible events of September 11, 2001, pointed out that great riches are as vulnerable as they have ever been. In Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips charts the ongoing American saga of great wealth–how it has been accumulated, its shifting sources, and its ups and downs over more than two centuries. He explores how the rich and politically powerful have frequently worked together to create or perpetuate privilege, often at the expense of the national interest and usually at the expense of the middle and lower classes.
With intriguing chapters on history and bold analysis of present-day America, Phillips illuminates the dangerous politics that go with excessive concentration of wealth. Profiling wealthy Americans–from Astor to Carnegie and Rockefeller to contemporary wealth holders–Phillips provides fascinating details about the peculiarly American ways of becoming and staying a multimillionaire. He exposes the subtle corruption spawned by a money culture and financial power, evident in economic philosophy, tax favoritism, and selective bailouts in the name of free enterprise, economic stimulus, and national security.
Finally, Wealth and Democracy turns to the history of Britain and other leading world economic powers to examine the symptoms that signaled their declines–speculative finance, mounting international debt, record wealth, income polarization, and disgruntled politics–signs that we recognize in America at the start of the twenty-first century. In a time of national crisis, Phillips worries that the growing parallels suggest the tide may already be turning for us all.
From the Hardcover edition.
An explosive examination of the coalition of forces that threatens
the nation, from the bestselling author of "American Dynasty"
In his two most recent bestselling books, "American Dynasty"
and "Wealth and Democracy," Kevin Phillips established himself as a
powerful critic of the political and economic forces that ruleaand
imperilathe United States, tracing the ever more alarming path of
the emerging Republican majorityas rise to power. Now Phillips
takes an uncompromising view of the current age of global
overreach, fundamentalist religion, diminishing resources, and
ballooning debt under the GOP majority. With an eye to the past and
a searing vision of the future, Phillips confirms what too many
Americans are still unwilling to admit about the depth of our
misgovernment.
Featured on CNN, C-SPAN, FOX News, NBC's Today Show, Democracy NOW
, News Hour with Jim Lehrer and other leading talk shows. In the
late 1960s, the bipartisan Eisenhower Violence Commission, formed
by President Lyndon Baines Johnson and extended by President
Richard Nixon, warned that most civilizations have fallen less from
external assault than from internal decay. Over recent years, the
internal decay prophesied by the Violence Commission, but also by
President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his military-industrial complex
farewell speech, has been reflected in American public policies.
The fault lies on both sides of the political aisle. After Pearl
Harbor, "Mr. Republican," Senator Robert A. Taft, said criticism is
patriotic. Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense assembles more
than three dozen patriots. They range from Kevin Phillips, chief
political strategist for Richard Nixon's victory in 1968, and
former Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV, called a "true American hero"
by President George H. W. Bush in 1991, to Jessica Tuchman Mathews,
President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and
former Oklahoma Senator Fred R. Harris, who advocated grassroots,
populist policies when he ran for president in the 1970s. Why have
American policies failed? What alternative policies can return
America to its promise, internally and in the eyes of a global
community shaken by, among other things, American torture and
sexual humiliation of prisoners in Iraq? Patriotism, Democracy and
Common Sense answers these questions in a preposterous way. It asks
citizens and policy makers to actually connect the dots-to move
America forward by developing mutually supportive and complementary
foreign, national security, Middle East, economic, domestic, inner
city, media, campaign finance and voting reform policies. Too much
to expect of our civilization? This important and timely effort is
published in cooperation with The Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation.
From Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Se
The question at the heart of The Cousins' Wars is this: How did
Anglo-America evolve over a mere three hundred years from a small
Tudor kingdom into a global community with such a hegemonic grip on
the world today, while no other European power,Spain, France,
Germany, or Russia,did? The answer to this, according to Phillips,
lies in a close examination of three internecine English-speaking
civil wars,the English Civil War, the American Revolution, and the
American Civil War. These wars between cousins functioned as
crucial anvils on which various religious, ethnic, and political
alliances were hammered out between the English-speaking
cousin-nations, setting them on a unique two-track path toward
world leadership,one aristocratic and aloof to dominate the
imperial nineteenth century and the other more egalitarian and
democratic to take over in the twentieth century. They also
functioned as unfortunate and deadly cultural crucibles for African
Americans, Native Americans, and the Irish.Phillips's analysis
shows exactly how these conflicts are inextricably linked and how
they seeded each other. He offers often surprising interpretations
that cut across the political spectrum,for instance, that the
Constitution of the United States, while brilliant in many
respects, was also a fatally flawed political compromise that
contributed mightily in setting the stage for the final,and the
bloodiest,cousins' war: the American Civil War.With the new
millennium upon us and triggering widespread assessment of our
nation's place in world history, The Cousins' Wars provides just
the kind of magisterial sweep and revisionist spark to ignite
widespread interest and debate. This grand religious, military, and
political epic is the multi-dimensional story of the triumph of
Anglo-America.
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