Jeb! and the Bush Crime Family: The Inside Story of an American Dynasty Hardcover – February 16, 2016

Loved it! Not sure how accurate it was in terms of the crimes of The Bush Family, but certainly presents some evidence that this family has been pretty rotten for a number of decades in terms of some of the things they have done - murder, stealing, and taking advantage of the poor and suffering on our planet. Amazing how a family that begun just a few generations ago with an Episcopal Priest could have turned out the way that they have. Again, I don't know how much is factual, but I have to believe that some of it is true and if so, this family certainly has lots of blood on their hands. Maybe the future generations of this family can change the course of their sail, but not likely from as far as I can tell.

First off: life-long republican, here.This book is packed with information. The sheer quantity of Bush ties to some of the worst moments in American/world history is a bit sickening. The amount of Bush corporate endeavors, board memberships, financial fronts, secret societies, unholy political alliances, underhandedness, passive-aggressive viciousness, criminal prosecutions, and just plain weird appearances and coincidences is shocking. Barbara's matriarchal influence and family tree is interesting too, but mostly left beyond the scope of the book.Stone has a daunting task: where to start? He jumps in with Jeb! The Jeb chapters, though laced with general adolescent bad behavior like petty drug trafficking, graduating to real estate cronyism and a love for big government, was the least interesting part of the book. Jebs' self-proclaimed favorite president of all, LBJ, says it all. Jeb comes across as a Bush crime wannabe, who doesn't possess the raw talent, blood thirst, or penchant for pure-bred marrying which seems required to extend familial profiting and epic misconduct. His foibles in Venezuelan money laundering almost break the threshold of notable mischievousness. Perhaps Jebs' greatest achievement is doubling the State of Florida's debt from $17.8B to $36.4B. Foreshadowing?Samuel Prescott and Prescott Sheldon Bush come next and are the most interesting characters in the book. These chapters are the most revealing as the Prescotts establish the fractal repetitions that later define the family model for success: ambition, self-aggrandizement, ghastly alliances, secret deals and back-stabbing, using fronts and banking for money laundering, track-covering and other sordid behaviors, followed by some sort of colossal failure and finally, crony-cajoled legal and financial bailouts. Another odd family tradition seems to be the propensity for forgettable political debate performances, punctuated with the occasional run-ending gaff.Stone starts with the Prescott Bush wartime fables, including self-awarding false medals for fabricated heroism followed by embarrassing retractions, bankrolling their favorite cause: eugenic racial purity culminating in his founding of Planned Parenthood, plus massive arms shipments to the Third Reich through their shipping lines, numerous Nazi business partners and social ties. And who could forget conscious profiteering from slave labor, including an alleged 30% stake in the infamous Auschwitz labor camp's av-gas, steel and coal production? Uhg, hard to digest. And then... inevitably it seems... the family pattern of failure: criminal prosecution for money laundering to an impressive list of Hitler-propping corporations and fronts by FDR under the "Trading With the Enemy Act" in October of 1942. Ultimately, after being shut down, and a subsequent FDR assassination scheme, Prescott lucks his way into a 1950's $1.5M payout (about 15M today) of the family's seized wartime assets. Presto, Prescott is back!G.H.W. Bush 41 is discussed next and appears to have the family genes in spades. His list of wartime oddities and torrid accomplishments astonishingly repeats, and even rivals Prescott. From his widely promoted over-water bailout from a machined-gunned WWII fighter bomber, abandoning his crew of two according to his wingman flying 100 feet in trail, to his uncomfortable but not entirely clear CIA involvement in the planning and execution of JFK's ambush--an act that anointed his son's would-be favorite President, LBJ--to financing the Watergate Hotel team, to unaccountable CIA drug running schemes, to intricate involvement in an assassination attempt that should have crowned himself President--if Reagan had died like he was supposed to--to failed Savings & Loan scandals resulting in enormous bailout payouts to his more inept and less known sons, are all, perhaps, equally alarming. The list goes on and on... and on...G.W. Bush 43, with shoes too big to fill, turns out to be more interesting than Jeb and a more worthy successor to the book's dark side. His ability to create inbred corporate and political alliances, find the beginnings of acquired wealth and then destroy it, continues the family pattern. W gets painted as a big time Presidential spender, who is more of a closet democrat than fiscal conservative. Stone points out that Bush 41 + 43 account for 72% of our National debt. Bush 41 + 43's consummate feeding of the military-industrial complex is, of course, legendary. Stone gives both Bush Presidents credit for paving-over Ronald Reagan's political impact.The last chapter explores a chain of Bush-Clinton ties and circuitous lines of intertwined associates, real estate cronyism and drug trafficking, with some bizarre financial tentacles. It is brief but interesting.Stone expanded, filled-in gaps and tied-up loose ends in my knowledge of the Bush dynasty. One warning to future readers: like his book, "The Clinton's War on Women," the material gets vile at times, and the amount presented in rapid succession can cause some intellectual indigestion. I don't blame Mr. Stone for the amount of information he needs to work through to be comprehensive in a book of reasonable size, but realize that many of the digs, within an avalanche of insinuations, are openly discussed as hearsay. Still, Stone's fully developed material is plentiful, engaging, reminiscent for older readers and kept relevant for today, so I give this book 5-stars.Finally, the beginning of the book mentions another possible ending or sequel: Jeb Bush's son, John Ellis Bush, Jr. who is now being groomed for his own presidential run.

About 1/2 through. Disgusting! Everyone needs to read or know what's in this book, as well as in several books I've recently read. And a new term (to me) "elite deviance" which applies to those who are the subjects in a number of the past books I've read. “Elite deviance” refers to a level of elitism wherein someone believes they are simply above the law. They do so because they know they are above prosecution. The most recent case is Hillary and Bill for interfering with the Justice Department, and now Loretta Lynch for allowing it to happen. In this particular book it applies to the Bush dynasty, from Samuel Bush on down. We are never going to get our country back until we recognize who these people are, what they are doing to us and “put them away” where they belong; in prison.Read these books:JPMadoff (Chaitman & Gotthoffer)The Confessions of Congressman X ( anonymous)Clinton Cash (Schweizer)A History of Central Banking & the Enslavement of Mankind (Goodson)The Tower of Basel (Lebor)

For a Family I loved, finding out that the male dynasty even approach psychopath behavior, and ALL of them were and are involved. THIS WAS A SHOCKER. I already knew of th Bush connection to Hitler, but geez, pornography, drug importation and other stories. And if you think it is just one bad book, do a Google Search on "bush crime dynasty" and see how many other similar books come up.

I've been involved in Politics all my adult life, both in the UK, France and the USA. This book by Roger Stone is one of the best and most interesting I have read in a good few years. Really an eye opener not just about Jeb Bush and the entire Bush family, from Samuel and oldman Prescott right through to G.H.W. Bush (poppy) George Bush, Jeb and Neil....The involvement over the Contra arms for drugs to Iran involvement. The death of CIA informant and drug smuggler Barry Seal and the infamous Oliver North. I was at times stunned and shocked, I have never liked the Bush family, now reading Stone's book I can see i was right. The Bush pally friendship with the Clinton's...Little wonder that the 'Establishment' on Washington's Capital Hill are very worried about having the likes of Donald Trump in the White House! Excellent read, once you start you won't want to put it down, Highly recommend this book. If you didn't like the bush family before or thought all Politicians were corrupt this book will give you chapter and verse to confirm your worse thoughts about what happens behind closed doors.

Although it's probably accurate, it's kind of weak. Jeb selling pot and getting away with it... 'The Conspirators' by Al Martin, an insider in the finance frauds, drug running and weapons deals that enriched politicians particularly the Bush family and almost incidentally were involved in Iran Contra is far grittier and more disturbing.

It always pays to keep a touch of skepticism in the back of your mind when reading books like this. But even with a touch this is frightening beyond belief. An abuse of power going back so many years that cost so many lives for a families personal agenda. A wake up call for the people not to sleepwalk into a repeat of history....

Great insight how the elite live

How are these scum able to get away for all these years