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As the Bush family has risen to dominance, so too they have been master orchestrators of their own public image, acting and operating under the shield of privacy their money and status have always afforded them. Until now.
Number One bestselling author and investigative biographer Kitty Kelley has closely examined the lives of Jacqueline Onassis, Nancy Reagan, Frank Sinatra, and the British Royal family. Now the First Lady of unauthorized biography reckons with the first family of the United Statesand the result is at once a rich and shocking history and a very human portrait of the worlds most powerful dynasty.
An important work on wealth, power, and class in America, The Family is rich in texture, probing in its psychological insight, revealing in its political and financial detail, and stunning in the patterns that emerge and expose the Bush dynasty as it has never before been exposed. Ms. Kelley takes us back to the origins of the family fortune in the Ohio steel industry at the turn of the last century, through the oil deals and international business associations that have maintained and increased their wealth over the past hundred years. The book leads us through Prescott Bushs first entre into government at the state level in 1950s Connecticut, to George Herbert Walker Bushs long and winding road to the White House, to his sons quick sweep into the same office. Along the way, we see the complex relationships the Bushes have had with the giants of the centuryEisenhower, Nixon, Joseph McCarthy, Kissinger, Reagan, Clintonas well as the often ruthless methods used to realize their goals.
Perhaps most impressiveand surprisingis the way the book delves behind the obsessively protected public image into the familys intimate private lives: the matriarchs, the mistresses, the marriages, the divorces, the jealousies, the hypocrisies, the golden children, and the black sheep.
At a crucial point in American history, Kitty Kelley is the one person to finally tell all about the family that has, perhaps more than any other, defined our role in the modern world. This is the book the Bushes dont want you to read. This is The Family.
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CONTENTS
In Memoriam
William V. Kelley
(19042002)
Adele M. Kelley
(19161978)
A. Stanley Tretick
(19211999)
Charlie Tolchin
(19682003)
To my husband, John, who continues to make dreams come true
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie
deliberate, continued, and dishonestbut the myth
persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, JUNE 11, 1962,
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS, YALE UNIVERSITY
PHOTO CREDITS
Thanks to the following institutions for kind permission to reprint photographs:
George Herbert Walker Bush George Bush Presidential Library
Lucretia Wear Loulie Walker George Bush Presidential Library
Samuel Prescott Bush Columbus Dispatch
Pauline Pierce George Bush Presidential Library
Barbara Pierce with father and siblings George Bush Presidential Library
Prescott and Dorothy Bush George Bush Presidential Library
James S. Bush and bride AP/Wide World Photos
Prescott Bush & family at wedding of George H.W. and Barbara George Bush Presidential Library
Nancy Bush Ellis George Bush Presidential Library
Prescott Bush at Yale Images of Yale individuals, ca. 17501976 (RU 684). Manuscripts & Archives, Yale University Library
George H.W. Bush at Yale Yale 1948 Class Book. Manuscripts & Archives, Yale University Library
Skull and Bones listing for Class of 1948 Yale Picture Collection, ca. 18311996 (RU 117). Manuscripts & Archives, Yale University Library
George H.W. Bush and Babe Ruth George Bush Presidential Library
George W. Bush at Yale Images of Yale individuals, ca. 17501976 (RU 684). Manuscripts & Archives, Yale University Library
George W. Bushs Yale transcript The New Yorker
Prescott Bush and Dwight D. Eisenhower George Bush Presidential Library
Prescott Bush and Richard Nixon George Bush Presidential Library
Planned Parenthood letter From the Drew Pearson Papers at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
Prescott Bush, John F. Kennedy, and New England senators Reprinted with kind permission from the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library
Prescott and Dorothy Bush gravestones Courtesy of author
George H.W. Bush and Dwight D. Eisenhower George Bush Presidential Library
George H.W. Bush and President Richard Nixon George Bush Presidential Library
George H.W. Bush and Henry Kissinger George Bush Presidential Library
George H.W. Bush, Ambassador to UN George Bush Presidential Library
George H.W. Bush, chairman RNC George Bush Presidential Library
George H.W. and Barbara Bush, China George Bush Presidential Library
George H.W. Bush, CIA director George Bush Presidential Library
Vice President and Mrs. George H.W. Bush with President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan AP/Wide World Photos
President and Mrs. George H.W. Bush with Vice President and Mrs. Dan Quayle George Bush Presidential Library
George H.W. Bush with young George and Robin George Bush Presidential Library
George H.W. Bush and family, 1959 George Bush Presidential Library
Vice President George H.W. Bush and family, 1981 George Bush Presidential Library
George H.W. Bush on his seventy-fifth birthday, with family George Bush Presidential Library
George H.W. Bush and former presidents and first ladies AP/Wide World Photos
George H.W. Bush with Jennifer Fitzgerald George Bush Presidential Library
Jennifer Fitzgerald Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library
Barbara Bush and Nancy Reagan George Bush Presidential Library
Vice President and Mrs. George H.W. Bush aboard Airforce Two George Bush Presidential Library
George H.W. Bush with George W. in Texas Air National Guard AP/Wide World Photos
George W. Bush congressional campaign poster George Bush Presidential Library
George W. Bush with Texas Rangers sign AP/Wide World Photos
Jeb Bush and George W. Bush, 1955 George Bush Presidential Library
Governor Jeb Bush and George W. Bush, 2000 AP/Wide World Photos
Katherine Harris and Governor Jeb Bush AP/Wide World Photos
President and Mrs. George W. Bush, Inauguration Day, 2001 WIN McNamee/Reuters
George W. Bush at Bob Jones University AP/Wide World Photos
George W. Bush at Ground Zero AP/Wide World Photos
George H.W. Bush in pilots uniform George Bush Presidential Library
George W. Bush landing on USS Abraham Lincoln AP/Wide World Photos
Bush twins, Barbara and Jenna, 2001 Larry Downing/Reuters
Lauren Bush AP/Wide World Photos
George P. Bush and his uncle George W. Bush AP/Wide World Photos
Noelle Bush AP/Wide World Photos
BUSH/WALKER/PIERCE/ROBINSON FAMILY TREE
AUTHORS NOTE
I believe that the people we most admire most influence our country, so those are the lives Ive chosen to examine. My subjects have included Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, the British monarchy, and now, the Bushes. They were not simply public figures who happened to be celebrities. When I wrote about them they were all living icons who, for better or for worse, substantially influenced our culture. I stress the word living because I believe in writing books about people who are alive and quite capable of defending themselves. The dead have no recourse to a biographers unsparing revelations.
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