Kitty Kelley Dishes on the Bush Family (Favorable Write-up)

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NEW YORK - When Kitty Kelley, the famously unauthorized biographer of the famous, sits down for an interview, she likes to get personal. She sets her chair next to yours, leans forward when speaking and occasionally underlines an argument with a tap on the knee.

And call her Kitty, please. Not Ms. Kelley.

Author of gossipy, controversial best sellers about Nancy Reagan and Frank Sinatra, the 62-year-old Kelley has spent the past three and a half years getting as close as she can to the Bush family, talking to those willing to talk, hunting for documents that range from academic records to private memos to tax returns.

Not everybody believes what she writes, but millions still want to read her. Her new book, "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty," comes out this week with more than 700,000 copies in print and an already scandalous reputation for its allegation that George W. Bush used cocaine at Camp David while his father was president.

"She wouldn't be such a best seller if her books didn't deliver something," says Bob Wietrak, a vice president of merchandising for Barnes & Noble, Inc. "People know she spends a lot of time on her books, does a lot of homework, does a lot of digging and she writes a good story."

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