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| May 03, 2004 | Potemra, Michael | COPYRIGHT 2004 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

'THE Bushes consider self-focus and self-analysis to be dangerously close to self-centeredness," write the authors of an entertaining new collective biography of the current First Family. In The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty (Doubleday, 574 pp., $27.95), Peter and Rochelle Schweizer try to tell the story the clan itself is forbidden by modesty to recount. The book is full of charming anecdotes:

 
   [Prescott Bush's love of music] led to a 
   nocturnal life he tried to keep secret from 
   his family. Pres would slip out at night 
   and trek up to the Cotton Club ... The 
   family learned about it only by chance 
   when Dottie was driving the kids around 
   in the ...
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