The Preppy Handbook was published in 1980, as a bit of fluff, satirizing the manners and mores of the Eastern Establishment and the surrounding upper middle class.  It spent 38 weeks as number one on The New York Times bestseller list.  It was reprinted 32 times, and all 7,500 copies of the first run sold … Continue reading THE PREPPY HANDBOOK, THE CIA, & GEORGE BUSH