God, Hate and Guns: The America of the Bush Dynasty

The America of the Bush Dynasty

No part of the United States stirs up such emotions as the South. For many Europeans, this is the breeding ground of the Ku Klux Klan and its implacable hatred, of white rednecks driving around in their pick-up trucks with guns at the ready, of TV preachers preaching hell and damnation, a world that lives by the principles of 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth'. This is the setting for films like Mississippi Burning, The Chase and In the Heat of the Night, the land where the blues and rock 'n' roll were born.

But is this the real South? Do Europeans only know distorted clichés? This book aims to explain how the American South rose from its total defeat at Appomattox in 1865 to what it is today: the politically dominant region of the United States, and how that power culminated in the presidency of George W. Bush, one of his favorite sons.