Kitty Kelley met by fear and secrecy in Bush family

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By JOEL CONNELLY
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER COLUMNIST

Kitty Kelley is a tell-all biographer of the prominent and powerful, but has never forgotten lessons that she learned as a girl in Spokane about saving for a rainy day.

"You don't print everything you have. Always you have that extra 10 percent, so you can ask the person delivering the threats: Do you really want this to come out?" said the author who has chronicled the Bush family, Nancy Reagan, Frank Sinatra and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Kelley is riding atop the best-seller list with "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty." The book's 634 pages take on the meticulously groomed image of the ruthless WASPs who supplanted the Kennedys as our dominant political family.

Kelley was hit by a lawsuit from Sinatra at the beginning of her research. Close friends of Nancy Reagan tried omerta -- a strategy of silence. But nowhere has she encountered such fear and secrecy as when trying to peer behind the Bushes.

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