The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (687 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385503245 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 736 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Royals have no clothes? James E. Nickelson Kelley is usually maligned by her subjects. But her anecdotal observations are probably true, and better they are greatly entertaining. The Bush family is no exception. and a lot of their antics might raise an eyebrow. Her sometime editor Michael Korda vouched for her veracity in his own autobiog which surprised me---and led me to an enjoyable read You'l. Amazon Customer said Boring. Borrringggg! Way too much political stuff and not enough personal stuff. I was really disappointed in this book, plus it was mostly about the Bush boys, very little on the women.. "Five Stars" according to OHGORSH. Different
--John Moe. While charges about George W. Bush's long-standing affair with aide Jennifer Fitzgerald, and George W. Kitty Kelley, author of exhaustive and highly unflattering biographies of Frank Sinatra, Jackie Onassis, and the British royal family, among others, has never received much cooperation from her subjects. Bush, including that he snorted cocaine at Camp David while his father was president, garnered the most attention upon the book's release, Kelley's history goes back several generations, detailing the rise to power of Senator Prescott Bush and his son, the first President Bush. Those seeking a rock-solid and airtight indictment of the Bushes, however, will be disappointed, since Kelley leans on anonymous sources and rumors for some of the juicier bits. Likewise, n
The book leads us through Prescott Bush’s first entrée into government at the state level in 1950s’ Connecticut, to George Herbert Walker Bush’s long and winding road to the White House, to his son’s quick sweep into the same office. 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. This is The Family.. They have shaped our past and, with our country at war under the leadership of their number one son, they are, more critically than ever, shaping our future.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. Ms. Along the way, we see the complex relationships the Bushes have had with the giants of the century—Eisenhower, Nixon, Joseph McCarthy, Kissinger, Reagan, Clinton—as well as the often ruthless methods used to realize their goals.Perhaps most impressive—and surprising—is the way the book delves behind the obsessively protected public i