Family of Secrets

Family of Secrets By Russ Baker Bloomsbury Press; 577 pages

When George H.W. Bush was at Andover, his roommate was the nephew of a man with the curious name of George de Mohrenschildt; in later years, Bush and De Mohrenschildt fraternized in Dallas. In 1962, De Mohrenschildt also befriended a troubled young man named Lee Harvey Oswald. It’s just one of dozens of connections that the prodigiously industrious investigative journalist Russ Baker has drawn between President No. 41 and the assassination of President No. 35. He also connects the dots between the Bushes and Watergate, which he farfetchedly describes not as a ham-handed act of political espionage but as a carefully orchestrated farce designed to take down President Richard Nixon. It’s common knowledge that the Bushes sit at the intersection of America’s business and intelligence communities, but Baker takes it further: he sees them as part of a “globally reaching, fundamentally amoral, financial-intelligence-resource apparatus that has never before been properly documented.”

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