Author Sets Sights on Bushes

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Author Kitty Kelley, known for her highly unauthorized "hiss and tell" biographies of such subjects as Jacqueline Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan and the House of Windsor, has targeted the Bushes as fodder for her next tome, according to USA Today. Her publisher, Doubleday, expects to release the as-yet untitled book in 2004, which happens to be the year that George W. Bush first term is set to expire. The Washington-D.C.-based Kelley, 58, told USA Today that she will "of course" seek the cooperation of the Texas family that has produced two presidents. "This is a big book, important," said Kelley. "I want their help." The author also pointed out that family matriarch Barbara Bush had Kelley's Onassis and Reagan books yanked from the Smithsonian's 1992 First Ladies exhibit. Bush, in her own memoir, called Kelley's efforts "ugly." The White House offered no comment on the report of the new book.