''Millie's Book: As Dictated to Barbara Bush'' is a 1990

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, written as if from the perspective of

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the

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. After tax proceeds from book sales were donated to a literacy nonprofit organization. The book reached number one on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list (nonfiction) in 1990, and spent 23 weeks on ''

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'' hardcover best seller list.

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