Acknowledged for more than three decades as one of America's premier political analysts, Kevin Phillips—former Republican strategist, regular contributor to The Los Angeles Times, NPR and Time, and author of 12 influential books, from his groundbreaking 1969 The Emerging Republican Majority to his recent New York Times bestseller, American Dynasty—discusses his controversial new book, American Theocracy. Phillips demonstrates that every world-dominating power, from Ancient Rome to the British Empire, has been brought down by a toxic combination of global over-reach, militant religion, resource problems, and ballooning debt—an axis of ills that has come to define America s own political and economic identity.