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The former first lady wrote “Millie’s Book: As Dictated to Barbara Bush,” which reached the number one spot on the New York Times nonfiction best seller list in the fall of 1990.

From Washington Times • Jul. 24, 2017

She co-authored the study called “A Pace Not Dictated by Electrons.”

From Forbes • Apr. 1, 2013

Dictated by incurable disease, the plot is inexorable but surprises with the ways that death can twist the living.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2011

Bush's dog, Millie, wrote a best-selling book called, "Millie's Book: As Dictated to Barbara Bush"?

From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2010

Dictated in outline in 1875, it was elaborated piecemeal, in small daily instalments, after the most serious of the many breakdowns in health had precluded more difficult work.

From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)