The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty

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The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty is a non-fiction book by the American investigative journalist Kitty Kelley. It was published on 14 September 2004, less than two months before the 2004 US Presidential election. Kelley was widely attacked in the media for the book, with charges of partisanship and challenges to her credibility.

The Family received tremendous attention due to its allegations that George W. Bush snorted cocaine with his brothers at Camp David during his father's presidency. One of Kelley's sources for the cocaine allegation was Neil Bush's ex-wife Sharon Bush, who has since denied telling Kelley the story. Kelley claims that Sharon Bush told her the story in front of a witness and has recanted due to pressure from the Bush family. [1] (http://www.salon.com/books/int/2004/09/14/kelley/)

The book also claims that in college Laura Bush was "a go-to girl for dime bags of marijuana", Barbara Bush objected to the fact that her son's girlfriend's stepfather was Jewish, and that at Harvard, George W. Bush objected to a classroom viewing of the film The Grapes of Wrath by asking "Why are you going to show us that Commie movie?", and saying "Look. People are poor because they are lazy." [2] (http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-kelley14.html)

Glynn Wilson, an Alabama free-lance journalist, has sued Kelley for plagiarism claiming passages from the book have the exact wording as his on-line articles. [3] http://www.southerner.net/blog/kitty_kelly_lawsuit.html