Kitty Kelley

In THE FAMILY, biographer Kitty Kelley once again practices her own brand of page-turner journalism that helped make best sellers of her bios of Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, Jackie Onassis, and the Windsors--all of which made news because of their sometimes stunning and embarrassing revelations. Kelley is often damned both for her tabloid style and for a lack of identified sources. Yet her readers find her narrative skills and prodigious research clearly evident. For them, she simply has a gift for digging out the dirt, and the courage to tell it. And like a fat lady at a salad bar, she piles it on! In this 600-page investigative report, Kelley treats the entire Bush clan in a group portrait that examines nearly a full century in the lives of the Bush-Walker-Pierce family tree: the accumulation of wealth and status, the political aspirations, and the petty behavior and little scandals (and coverups). What ties everything together seems to be the Yale connection, through which three generations have leveraged access to high office. Kelley's portrait of Barbara Bush is not flattering; she seems to take delight in the revelations about a reported mistress of George Herbert Walker Bush. She also discloses supposedly new facts about George W., including his adolescent hijinks, his National Guard experience, and his reported alcohol and drug abuse. (Even Laura is accused of being a drug-dealer at her college.) Either a celebrity tell-all with aspirations to being a serious study of power, or a lengthy account of a tawdry family of privilege, Kitty Kelley's THE FAMILY...piles it on!

For the first time, the most secretive and powerful dynasty in American history has all of its secrets revealed. This is the book the Bush family do not want you to read. Over the past one hundred years, the Bush family have made millions of dollars, dominated the US government, and created a legacy unlike any other American family. Prescott Bush was a two-time Senator from Connecticut who had the ear of Dwight D. Eisenhower and tangled with Joe McCarthy. His son, George H.W. was a congressman, the head of the CIA, Vice-President under Ronald Reagan and then the 41st President of the United States. One of his sons, Jeb, is governor of Florida and almost certainly a future presidential candidate. The eldest son, George W., is the 43rd president - possibly the most polarizing and controversial head of state in American history. How did these men - backed and often controlled by strong and single-minded women - rise to power? How did they maneuver their way from Yale and the secretive Skull and Bones through back door politics, the CIA, and the White House to have so much control over international politics? The answers are startling.Kitty Kelley has written a compelling portrait of a family addicted to wealth and power. From Prescott Bush's lies about his heroism during the First World War, and George Bush senior's relationship with his wife Barbara, his unsuccessful campaign for Texas senator and his actions as the head of the CIA, the Vice-President and President of the United States, to his sons' current positions of power and influence in US politics. George Bush junior's successes and failures have had closer public scrutiny than any other member of the family, but Kitty Kelley leaves no stone unturned in her examination of his childhood, his relationship with his parents, his party days at Andover and Yale, his business dealings, his rise to political power and his performance as the 43rd President of the United States.

For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influential show in television history, she has gotten her guests—often the biggest celebrities in the world—to bare their love lives, explore their painful pasts, admit their transgressions, reveal their pleasures, and explore their demons. In turn, Oprah has repeatedly allowed her audience to share in her own life story, opening up about the sexual abuse in her past and discussing her romantic relationships, her weight problems, her spiritual beliefs, her charitable donations, and her strongly held views on the state of the world. After a quarter of a century of the Oprah-ization of America, can there be any more secrets left to reveal? Yes. Because Oprah has met her match.

Durante veinticinco años la famosísima presentadora de televisión, considerada una de las personas más poderosas del mundo, no ha dejado de revelar secretos ajenos. Por su programa han pasado cientos de celebridades que han desnudado su corazon ante las camaras. A la vez, la misma Oprah Winfrey no ha dudado en compartir con su audiencia su propia historia.Despues de un cuarto de siglo contando secretos ¿queda algo por descubrir? Si, porque por fin, Oprah Winfrey se ha encontrado con una igual. Kitty Kelley famosa por sus reveladoras biografias acerca de algunos de los iconos de nuestra epoca ha puesto la vida de Oprah bajo el microscopio para ofrecernos la oportunidad fascinante de comprobar cuanto hay de verdad en la personalidad que la presentadora ha ido forjando antes los telespectadores durante decadas.Para ello ha hablado con su familia mas cercana, sus amigos, y sus socios financieros. Ha realizado una labor casi arqueologica buceando entre viejos documentos y fotografias y acuerdos de confidencialidad. Porque Oprah es sin discusion una de las figuras mas influyentes del siglo XX y del siglo XXI, pero incluso esa grandeza merece ser observada de cerca para separar el mito de la verdad y ver que sucede cuando se apagan los focos y el piloto rojo de la camara deja de brillar.

Una apasionante biografía repleta de claroscuros, en torno a una de las familias más influyentes y controvertidas de Estados Unidos: los Bush. Tras años de laboriosa investigación, la 'insoportable' Kitty Kelley nos ofrece con su proverbial agudeza e ironia una semblanza muy completa de esta estirpe que lleva acumulando riqueza y poder desde hace mas de cien años. Senadores, asesores presidenciales , directores de la CIA, gobernadores y, por supuesto, presidentes, los Bush siempre se han mantenido en la cima, contando con la decisiva influencia de las mujeres -fuertes y ambiciosas- de la familia, asi como del ambito universitario de Yale, y se los ha vinculado con intrigas politicas de todo tipo. Una obra imprescindible y de absoluta actualidad, a tenor de la polemica ocupacion de Irak y de la inminencia de las elecciones presidenciales.