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Polly

Privilege determines your life

Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2018

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This book delves into how those of money and privilege do things to further there wealth and influence over those less fortunate. It's all about making money. Being protected by influential friends that are made just for that purpose. Also, keep all of the "bad" things in the family. Make excuses for those who do wrong. Never admit that you are wrong, just call a "friend" to help out you or your off-spring.

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Joan Rodriguez

A Well Written Biography About An Unpleasant Subject

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2016

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Like all the Kelley biographies I have read, this one is well written, intriguing, and well documented. Because of the subject matter, it was also disillusioning, but that did not detract from the quality of the book. The picture Kelley paints of the Bush family is not pretty, but we should all be aware of it. If what Ms. Kelley wrote is correct, and I have no reason to suspect it was not, we "the People" have been badly duped by two presidents.

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Christopher Kelly

If you don't have anything nice to say, sit here next to me!

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2015

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This volume may receive new attention with Jeb Bush's run for the WH in 2016. Will America confront a choice between two political dynasties in 2016?

Alice Roosevelt Longworth once said, "If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me." Alice would have loved sitting next to Kitty Kelley who dishes the dirt on everyone from Jackie O to Oprah!

The gossip gal, Kitty Kelley penned a vitriolic volume on the Bush clan that was published in 2005. Her readable book is a tell-all with a heavy emphasis on sex, drugs and scandal. Her work is heavily reliant upon the the contributions of anonymous sources, political enemies and unhappy ex-wives such as Sharon Bush (ex-wife of Neil) and Carol Elizabeth Gray (ex-wife of C. Boyden Gray). Kelley's early political experience was in the campaign for Eugene McCarthy so her political leanings will come as no surprise.

She is relentlessly hostile to George HW Bush and his son George W. Bush. She fails to give Bush senior much of any credit for the liberation of Kuwait in 1991. She seems to have almost no conception of the threat that Saddam Hussein represented. She writes, "He (GW Bush) declared Saddam a threat to international security and instigated no attacks outside his own borders in a decade." This may be technically true but ignores the fact that Saddam initiated a brutal war against Iran in the 1980s, invaded Kuwait in 1990 and launched SCUD missiles at Israel in 1991. Simply put, Saddam was a threat to international security who supported terrorism throughout the middle east (e.g. paying the families of suicide bombers).

The book seems to have been written at high speed with a high degree of sloppiness. On page 630, for example, she discusses Winston Churchill writing, "the wartime prime minister, whose soaring rhetoric ad, in the words of John F,. Kennedy, 'mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.'" Those words were first uttered by the CBS correspondent Edward R Murrow. JFK, when honoring Churchill, merely quoted them and forgot to attribute.

If you already hate the Bush Clan and enjoy salacious and unfounded gossip you may enjoy this book. If you are looking for an objective or balanced appraisal of a family that has served its country in public office for over three generations you should look elsewhere. Regardless of where you are on the spectrum if you seek political substance this is not really the book for you.

I must note three elements that partially redeemed the book in my eyes. First, Kelley's portrait of Senator Prescott Bush (George HW's dad) is quite affecting. She has the decency to note that, contrary to slimy internet rumor-mongering, "No intelligence documents available from that era suggest that Prescott endorsed Nazi ideal or supported Germany's rearmament." Prescott comes off as a sympathetic public servant.

Second, her work absolves George HW Bush from the ludicrous charge raised elsewhere by Russ Baker ( Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years ) that he had any culpability in JFK's assassination. As Kelley documents, he was in Tyler TX about to give a speech to Kiwanis when he learned of the assassination in Dallas. He graciously declined to make his speech.

Third, the funniest part of the book was the meeting between George HW Bush and Frank Sinatra (p 346) where Frank volunteered to offer his espionage services to the director of the CIA. Bush Sr revealed his considerable wit by remarking, "There is some special work you could do for us in Australia, Frank." Sinatra had recently had a fit of temper while on tour in Australia where he made insulting comments about the locals.

Lou Dobbs told Kelley that he liked George HW Bush better after reading her book because he saw "him more clearly as a human being".

Even bad books can have their moments and this one still has some entertainment value.

Christopher Kelly, Author of America Invades America Invades: How We've Invaded or been Militarily Involved with almost Every Country on Earth and Italy Invades and An Adventure in 1914: An American Family's Journey on the Brink of WWI

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Mama Celeste

Great Story, Lousy Format

Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2015

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While this is a fascinating story, written by a competent author, the format sucks big time. It's on CD, which means that if you're driving along and you've been listening to it for 45 minutes, and then you stop to get gas or go to the bathroom, when you start the car again the disc starts at the beginning. There are no 'tracks' or other separations to rewind to. There is no way to rewind it or save you place. So, I've listened to the first 40 minutes of the first disc a multitude of times, and never progress beyond that. How tiresome. Additionally, I didn't realize I was buying used goods, but what was sent to me certainly was used goods and in very poor condition.

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Quick Delivery

Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2019

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Have not had time to read the book but I know the Bushes are a wonderful family and very down to earth. If it is negative I doubt that I will believe it.

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Margaret D. Helfenstein

I found the book very sad..

Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2016

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I found the book very sad...that one president is no more honest or able in their greed for power and money than any of the others. Our world is now "OZ"

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Robert P. Morrow

George Herbert Walker Bush does not *remember* where he was on the day of the JFK assassination!!

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2012

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George Herbert Walker Bush does not remember where he was on the day of the JFK assassination, although he was a US Senate candidate staying in a Dallas Hotel, the Sheraton.

That alone makes CIA GHW Bush a prime suspect in the JFK assassination.

That nugget alone makes this book a MUST READ. Get it along with Russ Baker's "Family of Secrets."

Kitty Kelley:

On November 22, 1963, George and Barbara headed to Tyler, Texas (population thirty-five thousand), where he was scheduled for a luncheon speech to the Kiwanis Club, a group of one hundred men, meeting at the Blackstone Hotel.
"I remember it was a beautiful fall day," recalled Aubrey Irby, the former Kiwanis vice president. "George had just started to give his speech when Smitty, the head bellhop, tapped me on the shoulders to say that President Kennedy had been shot. I gave the news to the president of the club, Wendell Cherry, and he leaned over to tell George that wires from Dallas confirmed President Kennedy had been assassinated.
"George stopped his speech and told the audience what had happened. 'In view of the President's death,' he said, 'I consider it inappropriate to continue with a political speech at this time. Thank you very much for your attention.' Then he sat down.
"I thought it was rather magnanimous of him to say and then to sit down, but I'm a Republican, of course, and I was all for George Bush. Kennedy, who was bigger than life then, represented extremely opposite views from Bush on everything."
The luncheon meeting adjourned, and George hurried across the street to meet Barbara at the beauty salon for their scheduled flight to Dallas. Before leaving the city, George called the FBI in Houston. Files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act document George's 1:45 p.m. call to the Houston field office: "Bush stated that he wanted to be kept confidential but wanted to furnish hearsay that he recalled hearing in recent days ... He stated that one James Milton Parrott has been talking of killing the President when he comes to Houston."
The man George turned in was an unemployed twenty-four-year-old who had been honorably discharged from the Air Force upon the recommendation of a psychiatrist. He was also a John Bircher who had vigorously opposed George during Bush's campaign for GOP chairman of Harris County. During his interview with the FBI, Parrott said he was a member of the Texas Young Republicans and had been active in picketing members of the Kennedy administration but that he had not threatened the President's life.
Years later, when he was running for President, George would claim that he never made the call. Documents were then produced that refreshed his memory. He also claimed that he did not remember where he was the day John F. Kennedy was killed- "somewhere in Texas," he said. George Bush is possibly the only person on the planet who did not recall his whereabouts that day, although his wife clearly remembered their being in Tyler. She said that at the time of the assassination she was writing a letter in the beauty salon and that they left shortly after hearing the news. They flew to Dallas en route to Houston, and in Dallas they had to circle Love Field several times while the second presidential plane was taking off to return to Washington, D.C.
"The rumors are flying about that horrid assassin," Barbara wrote in her letter. "We are hoping that it is not some far right nut, but a 'commie' nut. You understand that we know they are both nuts, but just hope that it is not a Texan and not an American at all."
George and the three other candidates vying for the GOP Senate nomination suspended campaigning for several weeks but resumed after the first of the year.

[Kitty Kelley, "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty," pp. 212-213]

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Ms. Fiona Allen

The (Very Frightening) Family

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 9, 2012

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As a fully paid-up liberal pacifist trade unionist, i.e. the kind of person for whom Republicans have absolutely no time at all, I'm delighted to find that the Bush family were just as hateful, corrupt, and corrosive as I always suspected they might be.
One does not need to be a psychologist to realise that parking the kids with their grandparents, or even with family friends, for months at a stretch while one goes to live in another state to enable one's husband to pursue his career might have consequences for the kids. How strange, therefore, that there is no trace of a criminal record despite numerous DUI stoppings, nor insider-dealing prosecutions, nor DEA arrests......I imagine it all depends on what part of "family" one finds important?
I'm only truly and desperately sorry that this book stops in 2004; so much has happened since then that might reveal even more about what a blight this family have been, and how many deaths on all sides and various continents might have been avoided if they'd stuck to making money and stayed out of politics.
A truly fascinating read.

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EXCELLENT

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 4, 2020

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Marilyn J.

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 28, 2015

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