They have wielded enormous financial power and dominated
world politics for more than half a century. They have been
appointed to positions of great power and have been elected
as governors, congressmen, senators and presidents. 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. 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 States—and the result is at once a rich
and shocking history and a very human portrait of the
world’s most powerful dynasty.
An important polemic 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 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. 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 image into the family’s 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 don’t want you to read. This is The
Family.
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