Kevin Phillips: America Under the Influence of Oil

NPR

Published April 17, 2006 at 6:14 PM EDT

As part of The Long View series of conversations on Morning Edition, author Kevin Phillips talks with Steve Inskeep about the influence of the oil industry.

Phillips is a former aide to Nixon whose new book American Theocracy examines the emerging Republican majority and where it is taking America. He also wrote The Emerging Republican Majority in 1969.

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