Word: dynasticism
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The next junior Senator from Pennsylvania will be only 38 when he takes the oath. He is attractive in a wholesome way; his wife and three children look swell on campaign brochures. His bloodlines are important enough for him to rate a dynastic III after his name. With experience in...
No Heirs. The author judges these events with the professionalism of an old Washington political writer and finds that the pharaoh neglected to mend his fences. He inherited enormous popularity but wasted it in extravagance and flabby foreign policy, not to mention a gaudy love affair with his younger brother...
Pluperfect Egomaniac. The Company of the title, naturally, is the CIA, a political genie that Congress is even now trying to stuff back into some sort of legislative bottle. As the book develops, dynastic rivalries between Presidents and parties are less fierce than continuing an almost mortal combat between the...
The very existence of the archives is another key to why this is such a fascinating book: the Rockefellers are a family totally obsessed with itself. They record everything. They fund major studies of themselves. In college, they write their theses about some aspect of the dynastic history. And at...
Since 1969, when Franco bypassed Don Juan by appointing Juan Carlos his official successor, the relationship between father and son has remained cordial but distant. The Prince and his family routinely visit Don Juan in Estoril, Portugal; reportedly, dynastic matters are tactfully avoided. Last June, however, Don Juan reasserted his...