I am not about to give credibility to Kitty Kelley, an "author" of such scholarly bios on Reagan and Sinatra, just because she decided to do the same hatched job on Bush that she has done to all of her previous subjects.
Between Vietnam and Kitty, how much oxygen is left for the real issues in this campaign?
In 1991, George Capozi did a Kitty Kelley on Kitty Kelley:
Poison Pen: The Unauthorized Biography of Kitty Kelley
by George, Jr. CarpoziAmazon review:
I enjoyed this biography more than most ("Legend" nearly made me suicidal, though) since it gives the hard and lowdown about one of the biggest trashers of modern times. It chronicles the life and career of Kitty Kelley-and a lot of things you'd expect to see in her half-fictional biographies.
Aside from chronicling her life, it also analyzes the various lies and half-truths that Kelley put in her biographies. Among the myths that were blown apart were suggestions about Nancy Reagan being pregnant out of wedlock and Frank Sinatra dumping a girlfriend.
I honestly don't know if the statements about her sex life and college robberies (yes, you read right-a bustier among other things) were true. But if she could cold-bloodedly make up such degrading statements about people she doesn't even know, then I imagine she could probably steal and half-kill her lover.
The one thing that could have made this much better was if there had been more speculation on why Kelley chose to trash people the way she did. Based on her past life? On her career? Did she get some vicarious kicks out of it? Was she jealous?
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