Posted on 04/15/2003 7:24:20 PM PDT by woofie
Sharon Bush is planning to write a tell all on the Bush family, The New York Observer is reporting exclusively in Wednesday's paper.
Sharon Bush, the estranged wife of President George W. Bush's younger brother, Neil Bush, has spent two decades with the Bush family.
Sharon Bush's spokesman, Lou Colasuonno, told The Observer:
"This will be the story of Sharon Bush's life inside one of the most powerful families in America. She witnessed the evolution of a dynasty. She believes, and is prepared to reveal in her book, that the Bushs are far more pragmatic and calculating than has ever been seen before. She will show that the family orchestrates its public image from top to bottom. She will reveal that the family is in essence a political operation."
Ms. Bush is currently working on her proposal and is pitching her idea in Manhattan publishing circles.
She recently met extensively with renowned biographer Kitty Kelley, who is working on her own book on the Bushes. They discussed the possibility of Sharon Bush becoming a key inside source for Kitty Kelley, which would be a huge boost for Kelley's long awaited book.
Kelley's agent, Wayne Kabak, of William Morris Agency, told the Observer:
"Kitty had a very long lunch with Sharon, and a great deal of information was put on the table. They talked about the possibility of Sharon writing her own book, as well as about the possibility of Sharon further cooperating with Kitty's book in the future." Sharon Bush is in the midst of a nasty divorce with Neil Bush.
The Observer has also obtained excerpts of a deposition given by Neil Bush on March 4. In the deposition, Neil Bush candidly discusses his extramarital affair with Maria Andrews, a former assistant to Barbara Bush. He also discusses his own marriage.
In the deposition, Neil Bush says:
"I threw myself at the mercy of this counseling and have -- have reached the conclusion that it is irresolvable, that our marriage has been broken," Mr. Bush said. "It's loveless. And there's nothing left to it. And there hasn't been for a long, long time. There's no affection. There's been very little sexual activity over the past 10 or 12 years....Sorry if marriages fail. And I'm -- I'm sorry ours is one of those."
Sharon Bush is despondent over her treatment at the hands of the Bush family, her associates say. In the book, she hopes to show that Barabara Bush has exercised a good deal more control over the family than previously revealed. She also wants to show that the relationship between the Bush brothers, as well as relations between the President and former President, have been more fraught and complex than previously known, her associates say.
Mr. Colasuonno told The Observer: "This is a woman who has had some wonderful times with the Bushes and knows she's fortunate to have had a close-up view of two Presidencies. But she has seen the dark side, too. And she intends to provide a view of the family that everyone will want to read."
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Leni
The Republicans won't read or buy it, because it presumably speaks ill of the Bushes.
The Democrats won't, either, because it is ABOUT the Bushes.
Should be a truly unbiased objective study of one of the greatest families in American history.
LOL!
Good luck, Sharon. A book that breaks the news that the Bush family is political is hardly going to rock the world. At least if you get Kitty on board, she'll make up some juicy parts for you.
That was my first thought also.
This book will tell more about Sharon than anybody else.
LOL
If she's got some true dirt about drugs or whatever, then we deserve to know.
But if she has nothing more than her word, the words of a bitter rejected divorcee, she's got squat.
I'm sure the 30% who hate Bush with every fiber of their being will love her tales, but the rest of the country will pay it no mind. Unless she has some proof.
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