An intelligent review of Kelley's "The Family" for your edification

[chookie]

This is by Ray of Bush Toons fame. One of the most thoughtful reviews and true characterizations of this book that I have seen so far. It's more of a straightforward history than people assume, not a gossipy hatefest. I largely concur with it.

"I am halfway through the amazingly researched book by Kitty Kelley in
the last day. I am very impressed how careful Ms. Kelly, her four
legal teams, and tons of researchers have put together this major
work about the questionable historical machinations of many
generations of the Walker-Bush family who are in complete control of
our troubled times today. No wonder the White House released such a
mean harsh statement about Ms. Kelly’s work, calling her nothing more
than a gossip columnist and her book is, "filled with lies!"

Well folks, I beg to differ with the White House attack already from
my reading thus far. Kelly wrote her book in a long saga story
format with an immense amount of unquestionable information, from
quotes from actual family letters, paragraphs from newspaper articles
of the different family time-frames, to facts from government files.
I cannot figure out how the White House calls her book filled with
lies! But then again, all you have to do is read the first hundred
pages of the ancient Walker and Bush family beginnings, their union
into one rich elitist WASP family, and the Bush-Walker men’s absolute
integration with the Skull and Crossbones secret society at Yale and
you know why. Quickly you can see why both Bush Presidents are
frantically spinning hate-filled wind over this incredible expose by
Ms. Kelly of all their dirty little family secrets through the
generations.

The other day I mentioned the Bush Dynasty representing the worst
traits of my WASP American tribe, well, after reading two hundred
pages of Kelly’s book, I feel I made an immense understatement. You
will be quite shocked over the integration of the Skull and
Crossbones Society, the old WASP boy’s club of banking, the military,
intelligence work, and government in the history of America since
1832 after its inception at Yale. I particularly liked one later-day
Bonesman’s statement that called the CIA the bonesman’s home away
from the tomb. Ms. Kelly dug up lots of info about the Secret
Society, which I have never known, and well, it gave me more than a
few nightmares last evening.

Caution: This 700 page book is not light reading. If you love
American History and want to understand the shadow power behind major
events we have all lived through in the last few decades then this
book is for you. Personally, I find the book very disturbing, and I
am not a naïve guy politically by any measure. For me being an
artist it may sound quite odd to you, but I have been around
smoke-filled backroom politics my entire life. From my earliest
political training by my big southern daddy in SC in the 1950s, to
working on the Carter Presidential campaign after graduate school in
1976, to knowing many different major business and political
"movers-and shakers" in NYC and Southampton over the years. I find
this book highly disturbing. it backs up so many things we thought
were going on in the Bush Dynasty.

For you other deep-dish political junkies on this list I recommend
reading "The Family."
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[barbaraann]

1. It's a vast right-wing shadow government, isn't it?

n/t

[oldlady]

2. yes, disturbing--

I became so disturbed by her telling of the death of George & Barbara's daughter Robin, I had to put the book down. There was this instinctive need to get far, far, far away. Here's the paragraph that sent me walking for a break:
pg. 136 - On the evening of October 11, 1953, George was en route to Manhattan when his daughter fell into a coma. Two months shy of her fourth birthday, she slipped away shortly after he arrived at the hospital. The next day hea and Barbara went to Rye to play golf with her father.

"It was the first day we'd been out," said Barbara. "We just got up and went out. Played golf. Didn't tell anyone. I later thought taht if people had seen us, they would have said, 'Why are those people doing that?' We just wanted to get away."

That day Greenwich Time carried Robin's obituary and said a private memorial service would be held at Christ Church Chapel. There was no funeral because the Bushes decided to leave their daughter's organs to the scientists at Sloan-Kettering. Dorothy Bush and Lud Ashley later buried her in the Bush family plot in Greenwich, Connecticut, but George and Barbara did not attend.