Ever wonder who dares to publish the expose' on the Bush family?

[Jackpine Radical]

Kitty Kelley's publisher is Doubleday, a subsidiary of Random House, which is in turn owned by Bertelsmann AG (a German mega-publisher).
(Sehr interessant.)

http://www.vault.com/companies/company_main.jsp?co_page=2&product_id=1829&v=1&tabnum=2

Founded in 1835 by a printer named Carl Bertelsmann, the company flourished in its German homeland as a regional publisher of religious books and hymnals, including the Brothers Grimm. Bertelsmann was shut down by the Nazi's in 1944. When the war broke, Carl Bertelsmann's great grandson, Reinhard Mohn, inherited the daunting task of reconstructing it. Mohn had spent the wartime in a P.O.W. camp in Kansas, and was thusly exposed to the American entreprenuerial spirit. He integrated this managment style with his own socially sensitive politic, and so birthed the giant that we know as Bertelsmann, now run by the youngest CEO in the big leagues of the business, 46 year old Thomas Middelhoff. Middlehoff is credited with advising the Bertelsmann board members to buy stock in AOL when it was a major gamble in 1995, and was also the impetus behind the company's $1.4 billion acquisition of U.S. publisher Random House in 1998. With its music group (BMG), publishing houses, printing companies and stakes in CLT-UFA, barnesandnoble.com and AOL, Bertelsmann is the largest media corporation in Germany and the fourth largest in the world.

[grasswire]

1. this isn't the real expose, I don't think

Kelley doesn't have the background to write the real, full history of the Bushes.

Pete Brewton took a stab at it. He lost his book contract and then was blackballed. I haven't heard anything about him for years -- he probably suicided.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. You're obviously right, Grass.

No exploring of the deep, sinister connections, etc.

But maybe good enough to disillusion the Illiterati with their little hero.

Who needs revelations of Machiavellian connections & machinations when ya got coke, abortions & the like? Anything more complicated would probly be just, you know, like too BORING.