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THE FAMILY by Kitty Kelley (2004) - NEW - 1ST EDITION

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Author: Kitty KelleyPublisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
ISBN-10: 0385503245Subject: Biography & Memoir
ISBN-13: 9780385503242Topic: Political
Format: HardcoverLanguage: English
Publication Year: 2004Condition: Brand New
Special Attributes: 1st Edition  
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In THE FAMILY, biographer Kitty Kelley once again practices her own brand of page-turner journalism that helped make best sellers of her bios of Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, Jackie Onassis, and the Windsors--all of which made news because of their sometimes stunning and embarrassing revelations. Kelley is often damned both for her tabloid style and for a lack of identified sources. Yet her readers find her narrative skills and prodigious research clearly evident. For them, she simply has a gift for digging out the dirt, and the courage to tell it. And like a fat lady at a salad bar, she piles it on! In this 600-page investigative report, Kelley treats the entire Bush clan in a group portrait that examines nearly a full century in the lives of the Bush-Walker-Pierce family tree: the accumulation of wealth and status, the political aspirations, and the petty behavior and little scandals (and coverups). What ties everything together seems to be the Yale connection, through which three generations have leveraged access to high office. Kelley's portrait of Barbara Bush is not flattering; she seems to take delight in the revelations about a reported mistress of George Herbert Walker Bush. She also discloses supposedly new facts about George W., including his adolescent hijinks, his National Guard experience, and his reported alcohol and drug abuse. (Even Laura is accused of being a drug-dealer at her college.) Either a celebrity tell-all with aspirations to being a serious study of power, or a lengthy account of a tawdry family of privilege, Kitty Kelley's THE FAMILY...piles it on!

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Length:705 pages
Height:10.0 in.
Width:6.3 in.
Thickness:1.8 in.
Weight:40.8 oz.

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From Ohio to Connecticut to Texas to Washington, D.C., Bush men and women have, over the past one hundred years, made millions of dollars, dominated our government, and created a legacy unlike any other twentieth- and twenty-first-century family. Prescott Bush was a two-time senator from Connecticut who had the ear of Dwight D. Eisenhower and tangled with Joe McCarthy. His son George H. W. was a congressman, the head of the Republican National Committee during the Watergate era, the head of the CIA, vice president under Ronald Reagan and then the forty-first president of the United States. One of his sons, Jeb, is governor of Florida and almost certainly a future presidential candidate. The eldest son, George W., is the forty-third president—possibly the most polarizing and controversial head of statethe U.S. has ever had. How did these men—backed and often controlled by strong and single-minded women—rise to power? How did they maneuver their way from Yale and the secretive Skull and Bones through back door politics, the CIA, and the White House to have so much control over our lives? The answers are startling. The Bushes have altered history. This book might well alter the history of the Bushes.

If you want to know the history of the Bushes—the marriages, the affairs, the money, the wars, the lies. . . if you want to know the truth—then you must read THE FAMILY.



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"It is Kelley's function in American culture to give popular expression to the dark, personal dramas of well-known people whose private lives are routinely airbrushed into bright fantasies that bear no resemblance to human life. Kelley's book not only delivers the dirt you'll rarely get in The New Yorker or The Atlantic Monthly, let alone on Fox News, it reminds you that personal dirt is the rich soil of day-to-day political life...."
Village Voice - John Powers (09/22/2004)

"[Kelley] is best appreciated less as an investigative journalist than as a folklorist, amassing a compendium of gossip (much of it denied by her subjects)."
New Yorker  (09/27/2004)

"But all told, the book's value lies less in its tabloid tidbits and more in the sheer aggregate of its 705 pages....Like her or not, Kelley has brought new information to bear on a family that, for better or worse, deserves her royal treatment."
New York Times Book Review - Ted Widmer (10/10/2004)


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THE FAMILY

THE REAL STORY OF THE BUSH DYNASTY

BY KITTY KELLEY

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