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Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When he was NY's Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer prosecuted crimes by America's largest financial institutions and some of the most powerful executives in the country. After his election as governor, with the largest margin in the state's history, many believed Spitzer was on his way to becoming the nation's first Jewish president. Then, shockingly, Spitzer's meteoric rise turned into a precipitous fall when the New York Times revealed that Spitzer...
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xxv, 609 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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"The first full-scale biography of John N. Mitchell, the central figure in the rise and ruin of Richard Nixon and the highest-ranking American official ever convicted on criminal charges. As U.S. attorney general from 1969 to 1972, the most powerful man in the Nixon cabinet, Mitchell stood at the center of the upheavals of the late sixties. Biographer Rosen traces Mitchell's early life and career from his Long Island boyhood to his mastery of Wall...
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Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth is informed by her upbringing. The daughter of immigrants, she was raised in an Oakland, California community that cared deeply about social justice; her parents- an esteemed economist from Jamaica and an admired cancer researcher from India- met as activists in the civil rights movement when they were graduate students at Berkeley. Growing up, Harris herself never hid her passion for justice, and...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
viii, 595 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, photographs (chiefly colored) ; 24 cm
Description
William Barr's first tenure as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush was largely the result of chance, while his second tenure under President Donald Trump a deliberate and difficult choice. In this candid memoir, Barr takes readers behind the scenes during seminal moments of the 1990s, from the LA riots to Pan Am 103 and Iran Contra. Thirty years later, Barr faced an unrelenting barrage of issues, such as Russiagate, the COVID outbreak,...
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Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xiv, 478 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Sheds new light on the tumultuous inner life of the Kennedy presidency and its aftermath, revealing the conflicts that tore apart the Kennedy administration and Bobby Kennedy's secret quest to solve his beloved brother's murder.
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Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
8 CDs (9 hrs. 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, an audiobook about the core truths that unite Americans, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them. By reckoning with the big challenges we face together, drawing on the hard-won wisdom and insight from her own career and the work of those who have most inspired her, Kamala Harris offers in this audiobook a master class in problem solving, in crisis...
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