Kitty Kelley

Durante veinticinco años la famosísima presentadora de televisión, considerada una de las personas más poderosas del mundo, no ha dejado de revelar secretos ajenos. Por su programa han pasado cientos de celebridades que han desnudado su corazon ante las camaras. A la vez, la misma Oprah Winfrey no ha dudado en compartir con su audiencia su propia historia.Despues de un cuarto de siglo contando secretos ¿queda algo por descubrir? Si, porque por fin, Oprah Winfrey se ha encontrado con una igual. Kitty Kelley famosa por sus reveladoras biografias acerca de algunos de los iconos de nuestra epoca ha puesto la vida de Oprah bajo el microscopio para ofrecernos la oportunidad fascinante de comprobar cuanto hay de verdad en la personalidad que la presentadora ha ido forjando antes los telespectadores durante decadas.Para ello ha hablado con su familia mas cercana, sus amigos, y sus socios financieros. Ha realizado una labor casi arqueologica buceando entre viejos documentos y fotografias y acuerdos de confidencialidad. Porque Oprah es sin discusion una de las figuras mas influyentes del siglo XX y del siglo XXI, pero incluso esa grandeza merece ser observada de cerca para separar el mito de la verdad y ver que sucede cuando se apagan los focos y el piloto rojo de la camara deja de brillar.

For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influential show in television history, she has gotten her guests—often the biggest celebrities in the world—to bare their love lives, explore their painful pasts, admit their transgressions, reveal their pleasures, and explore their demons. In turn, Oprah has repeatedly allowed her audience to share in her own life story, opening up about the sexual abuse in her past and discussing her romantic relationships, her weight problems, her spiritual beliefs, her charitable donations, and her strongly held views on the state of the world. After a quarter of a century of the Oprah-ization of America, can there be any more secrets left to reveal? Yes. Because Oprah has met her match.

For the first time, the most secretive and powerful dynasty in American history has all of its secrets revealed. This is the book the Bush family do not want you to read. Over the past one hundred years, the Bush family have made millions of dollars, dominated the US government, and created a legacy unlike any other American family. Prescott Bush was a two-time Senator from Connecticut who had the ear of Dwight D. Eisenhower and tangled with Joe McCarthy. His son, George H.W. was a congressman, the head of the CIA, Vice-President under Ronald Reagan and then the 41st President of the United States. One of his sons, Jeb, is governor of Florida and almost certainly a future presidential candidate. The eldest son, George W., is the 43rd president - possibly the most polarizing and controversial head of state in American history. How did these men - backed and often controlled by strong and single-minded women - rise to power? How did they maneuver their way from Yale and the secretive Skull and Bones through back door politics, the CIA, and the White House to have so much control over international politics? The answers are startling.Kitty Kelley has written a compelling portrait of a family addicted to wealth and power. From Prescott Bush's lies about his heroism during the First World War, and George Bush senior's relationship with his wife Barbara, his unsuccessful campaign for Texas senator and his actions as the head of the CIA, the Vice-President and President of the United States, to his sons' current positions of power and influence in US politics. George Bush junior's successes and failures have had closer public scrutiny than any other member of the family, but Kitty Kelley leaves no stone unturned in her examination of his childhood, his relationship with his parents, his party days at Andover and Yale, his business dealings, his rise to political power and his performance as the 43rd President of the United States.

In THE FAMILY, biographer Kitty Kelley once again practices her own brand of page-turner journalism that helped make best sellers of her bios of Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, Jackie Onassis, and the Windsors--all of which made news because of their sometimes stunning and embarrassing revelations. Kelley is often damned both for her tabloid style and for a lack of identified sources. Yet her readers find her narrative skills and prodigious research clearly evident. For them, she simply has a gift for digging out the dirt, and the courage to tell it. And like a fat lady at a salad bar, she piles it on! In this 600-page investigative report, Kelley treats the entire Bush clan in a group portrait that examines nearly a full century in the lives of the Bush-Walker-Pierce family tree: the accumulation of wealth and status, the political aspirations, and the petty behavior and little scandals (and coverups). What ties everything together seems to be the Yale connection, through which three generations have leveraged access to high office. Kelley''s portrait of Barbara Bush is not flattering; she seems to take delight in the revelations about a reported mistress of George Herbert Walker Bush. She also discloses supposedly new facts about George W., including his adolescent hijinks, his National Guard experience, and his reported alcohol and drug abuse. (Even Laura is accused of being a drug-dealer at her college.) Either a celebrity tell-all with aspirations to being a serious study of power, or a lengthy account of a tawdry family of privilege, Kitty Kelley''s THE FAMILY...piles it on!

Una apasionante biografía repleta de claroscuros, en torno a una de las familias más influyentes y controvertidas de Estados Unidos: los Bush. Tras años de laboriosa investigación, la 'insoportable' Kitty Kelley nos ofrece con su proverbial agudeza e ironia una semblanza muy completa de esta estirpe que lleva acumulando riqueza y poder desde hace mas de cien años. Senadores, asesores presidenciales , directores de la CIA, gobernadores y, por supuesto, presidentes, los Bush siempre se han mantenido en la cima, contando con la decisiva influencia de las mujeres -fuertes y ambiciosas- de la familia, asi como del ambito universitario de Yale, y se los ha vinculado con intrigas politicas de todo tipo. Una obra imprescindible y de absoluta actualidad, a tenor de la polemica ocupacion de Irak y de la inminencia de las elecciones presidenciales.

Shimmering in blue sequins and periwinkle eye shadow, Elizabeth Taylor strode onto the stage of the Mark Hellinger Theater to present the 1981 Antoinette Perry Award for Broadways best musicalAs she started to speak, the entire audience suddenly rose to give her a standing ovation. Wildly cheering, the crowd paid homage to the woman whose beauty had for so long enchanted the America. Now ripe and opulent at forty-nine, she no longer looked like the little girl who had ridden to glory in National Velvet; but the audience did not care, She could still bestow a touch of magic.from the prefaceThis biography of Elizabeth Taylor tells her story as no other can. Drawing on extensive reporting and interviews, Kitty Kelleys classic portrait follows the rise, fall, and rebirth of the woman who was perhaps Hollywoods brightest star. Now with a new Afterword by the author, this is the definitive record of Elizabeth Taylors fascinating life.

A shocking portrait of the 1980s, America, and the woman whose position helped shape the values and policies of the Reagan administration. Through over 1,000 interviews collected during four years of exhaustive research and reporting, Kelley reveals Nancy Reagan as a superb public performer, a vain, materialistic social climber, a bitter foe and formidable strategistan American phenomenon.

La verdadera historia de una de las mujeres más poderosas del mundoDurante veinticinco años la famosísima presentadora de televisión, considerada una de las personas más poderosas del mundo, no ha dejado de revelar secretos ajenos. Por su programa han pasado cientos de celebridades que han desnudado su corazon ante las camaras. A la vez, la misma Oprah Winfrey no ha dudado en compartir con su audiencia su propia historia.Despues de un cuarto de siglo contando secretos ¿queda algo por descubrir? Si, porque por fin, Oprah Winfrey se ha encontrado con una igual. Kitty Kelley famosa por sus reveladoras biografias acerca de algunos de los iconos de nuestra epoca ha puesto la vida de Oprah bajo el microscopio para ofrecernos la oportunidad fascinante de comprobar cuanto hay de verdad en la personalidad que la presentadora ha ido forjando antes los telespectadores durante decadas.Para ello ha hablado con su familia mas cercana, sus amigos, y sus socios financieros. Ha realizado una labor casi arqueologica buceando entre viejos documentos y fotografias y acuerdos de confidencialidad. Porque Oprah es sin discusion una de las figuras mas influyentes del siglo XX y del siglo XXI, pero incluso esa grandeza merece ser observada de cerca para separar el mito de la verdad y ver que sucede cuando se apagan los focos y el piloto rojo de la camara deja de brillar.

For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influential show in television history, she has gotten her guestsoften the biggest celebrities in the worldto bare their love lives, explore their painful pasts, admit their transgressions, reveal their pleasures, and explore their demons. In turn, Oprah has repeatedly allowed her audience to share in her own life story, opening up about the sexual abuse in her past and discussing her romantic relationships, her weight problems, her spiritual beliefs, her charitable donations, and her strongly held views on the state of the world.After a quarter of a century of the Oprah-ization of America, can there be any more secrets left to reveal?Yes. Because Oprah has met her match.Kitty Kelley has, over the same period of time, fearlessly and relentlessly investigated and written about the worlds most revered icons: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, Englands Royal Family, and the Bush dynasty. In her #1 bestselling biographies, she has exposed truths and exploded myths to uncover the real human beings that exist behind their manufactured facades.Turning her reportorial sights on Oprah, Kelley has now given us an unvarnished look at the stories Oprahs told and the life shes led. Kelley has talked to Oprahs closest family members and business associates. She has obtained court records, birth certificates, financial and tax records, and even copies of Oprahs legendary (and punishing) confidentiality agreements. She has probed every aspect of Oprah Winfreys life, and it is as if shes written the most extraordinary segment of The Oprah Winfrey Show ever filmedone in which Oprah herself is finally and fully revealed.There is a case to be made, and it is certainly made in this book, that Oprah Winfrey is an important, and even great, figure of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But there is also a case to be made that even greatness needs to be examined and put under a microscope. Fact must be separated from myth, truth from hype. Kitty Kelley has made that separation, showing both sides of Oprah as they have never been shown before. In doing so she has written a psychologically perceptive and meticulously researched book that will surprise and thrill everyone who reads it.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With a new afterword by the author in honor of Frank Sinatras 100th birthday This is the book that Frank Sinatra triedbut failedto keep from publication, and its easy to understand why. This unauthorized biography goes behind the iconic myth of Sinatra to expose the well-hidden side of one of the most celebratedand elusivepublic figures of our time. Celebrated journalist Kitty Kelley spent three years researching government documents (Mafia-related material, wiretaps, and secret testimony) and interviewing more than 800 people in Sinatras life (family, colleagues, law-enforcement officers, friends). The result is a stunning, often shocking expose of a man as tortured as he was talented, as driven to self-destruction as he was to success. Featuring a new afterword by the author, this fully documented, highly detailed biographyfilled with revealing anecdotesis the penetrating story of the explosively controversial and undeniably multitalented legend who ruled the entertainment industry for fifty years and continues to fascinate to this day. Praise for His Way The most eye-opening celebrity biography of our time.The New York Times A compelling page-turner . . . Kitty Kelleys book has made all future Sinatra biographies virtually redundant.Los Angeles Herald Examiner