As Bush kicks off book tour, historians crown his family a Republican dynasty

AUSTIN – When three generations of Bushes assembled in May at a church in a fashionable part of Miami, it was more than a wedding and a family reunion.

It was a gathering of the Republican Party's most enduring modern dynasty.

"While they disdain it, especially George W. who recoils in horror at the whole thing, they are our royal family," said historian Doug Wead....