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The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty

From the First Lady of unauthorized, tell-all biography, this is the first real inside-look at the most powerful-and secretive-family in the world. From Senator Prescott Bush's alcoholism, to his son George Herbert Walker Bush's infidelities, to George Walker Bush's religious conversion, shady financial deals, and military manipulations, Kitty Kelley captures the portrait of a family that has whitewashed its own story almost out of existence.

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Setting
USA
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 705 pages

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