Summary: The Family: Review and Analysis of Kitty Kelley's Book

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The must-read summary of Kitty Kelley's book: “The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty”.

This complete summary of "The Family" by Kitty Kelley, a prominent biography writer, presents her revelation of the story of the Bush family, who managed to claim the nation's highest office while enriching themselves and their benefactors.

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To learn more, read "The Family" and discover the motivations of one of America's most powerful political families.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Political Book Summaries
• Release date: Jan 30, 2017
• ISBN: 9782511002087

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Book Presentation: The Family

Book Abstract

Organized in an epoch fashion, The Family charts milestones as they impacted the Bush family’s best known members. It follows the Bush and Walker families primarily as they work their way from Ohio to Connecticut, to Texas and on to the White House gathering wealth and notoriety along the way.

In Kelley’s portrayal, few members of the Bush family demonstrate any real intellectual fire. Only their cunning, their charm, their social skills and Herbert Walker’s bankroll succeed in making them real players in the large stage of world finance and politics. This is the story of how a group of people undistinguished, except by birth into a certain class, managed to claim the nation’s highest office while enriching themselves and their benefactors and maintaining one unshakeable conviction that such was their due.

Written in a narrative style both prolix and dense, Kelley’s massive book documents the facts surrounding many rumors and events the Bush family has relentlessly tried to conceal. These findings reveal a family vastly different - in manner, character and beliefs - than its portrayal to the public.

About the Author

Kitty Kelly is the bestselling author of several biographies including Jackie Oh!; Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography and The Royals. Kelley received the Outstanding Author Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Phillip M. Stern Award and the Medal of Merit from the Lotos Club of New York.

Summary of The Family (Kitty Kelley)

Author’s Introduction Note

Of all the people profiled by Kitty Kelley, she says the Bushes were the most difficult. The amount of trepidation she encountered in writing the book was unprecedented, but perhaps that’s what comes from writing about a sitting President whose family has a long reach. Many sources were reluctant to tell their stories on the record and Kelley reluctantly had to agree to keep some sources unnamed. Many people who know the Bushes - friends, former employees, classmates, business associates, and even a few family members - were skittish about speaking for attribution. Many of these individuals truly feared the consequences that would be brought upon them by the Bush family.

Despite the Bushes efforts to keep everything hidden, Kelley uncovered facts that were harder for her to believe than her suppositions. It is Kelley’s hope that her revelations will lead readers to the essential truths that motivate, explain and define the Bush family as he American political dynasty responsible for the many changes America has undergone in recent history.

The Beginnings (1908 to 1917)

By 1908, Flora Sheldon Bush and her beloved husband, Samuel Prescott Bush had been married for 14 years. Their oldest son, Prescott Sheldon Bush, was going off to St. George’s School and then