Volume 47, Number 3 · February 24, 2000
Legacy
By Lars-Erik Nelson
A Charge to Keep
by George W. Bush
Morrow, 253 pp., $23.00
First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty
by Bill Minutaglio
Times Books, 371 pp., $25.00
Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush
by Molly Ivins, by Lou Dubose
Random House, 179 pp., $19.95
W: Revenge of the Bush Dynasty
by Elizabeth Mitchell
Hyperion, 370 pp., $22.95
Governor George Walker Bush of Texas is the son of President George Herbert Walker Bush, grandson of Senator Prescott Bush of Connecticut, direct descendant of President Franklin Pierce, and a thirteenth cousin, once removed, of Queen Elizabeth of England. Uncles and great-uncles were or are powers on Wall Street. As a child, he vacationed at a family compound in an enclave north of Palm Beach, Florida, along with families named Mellon, Doubleday, Ford, Roosevelt, Whitney, Vanderbilt, and Harriman.
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