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1) Undercurrent
Series
Katharine Hepburn 100th anniversary collection volume disc 4
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ann Hamilton is a professor's daughter who is a young bride married to an industrialist. She begins to suspect that her charming husband is really a psychotic who plans to murder her. Neither can she ignore the shadow of her brother-in-law Michael Garroway, whom she's never met but has been told so much about.
Author
Description
Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets. But the other woman with the same name has vanished, and pretending to be her just might get Clara some money to send back home. If she can keep up the ruse, that is. Serving as a lady's maid in the household of Andrew Carnegie...
3) Upper world
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011], ©2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wealthy railroad magnate who is devoted to his family is neglected by his wife. He begins to spend time with a sympathetic showgirl. The showgirl's boyfriend tries to blackmail him; in the resulting melee, the showgirl is killed by the boyfriend, and the boyfriend is killed by the magnate, who then tries to cover up the crime.
4) Henry Ford
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Profiles Henry Ford, one of America's most influential innovators of the 20th century.
5) Annie
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, who is adopted by billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged)
Description
"Celebrating the inventor of the Crayola crayon! This gloriously illustrated picture book biography tells the inspiring story of Edwin Binney, the inventor of one of the world's most beloved toys. A perfect fit among favorites like The Day the Crayons Quit and Balloons Over Broadway"--
8) Man on fire
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wave of kidnappings sweeps through Mexico City spreading panic among its wealthier citizens. John Creasy is a burned-out ex-CIA assassin who has given up on life. Creasy's friend Rayburn brings him to Mexico City to be a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos. Pita is the daughter of industrialist Samuel Ramos and his wife Lisa. Creasy is not interested in being a bodyguard, especially to a young girl, but he accepts the assignment. Slowly, Pita...
Author
Series
Wildwood chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
580 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm.
Description
When a young's girl's midnight seance awakens a long-slumbering, malevolent spirit, a band of runaway orphans teams up with an underground collective of saboteurs to rescue friends imprisoned in an industrial wasteland.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
30 CDs (35 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rockefeller was likely the most controversial businessman in our nation's history. Critics charged that his empire was built on unscrupulous tactics, and he spent more than thirty years dodging investigations, until Teddy Roosevelt and his trustbusters embarked on a marathon crusade to bring Standard Oil to bay. While providing abundant evidence of Rockefeller's misdeeds, Chernow discards the stereotype of the cold-blooded monster to sketch an unforgettably...
Publisher
Reckon So Productions
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A human story about a socially responsible company, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox documents the complicated history and inspiring family legacy of eccentric soapmaker and counterculture hero, Dr. Emanuel H. Bronner." --Container.
13) Henry Ford
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xiii, 306 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Most great figures in American history reveal great contradictions, and Henry Ford is no exception. He championed his workers, offering unprecedented wages, yet crushed their attempts to organize. Virulently anti-Semitic, he never employed fewer than 3,000 Jews. An outspoken pacifist, he made millions producing war materials. He urbanized the modern world, and then tried to drag it back into a romanticized rural past he'd helped to destroy. As the...
Publisher
Disinformation
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (52 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From environmental pollution to their efforts to dismantle Social Security for working Americans, the Koch brothers have launched a large network, attacking our American values. Join Senator Bernie Sanders, Van Jones and Katrina vanden Heuvel in this investigation of how the billionaire Koch brothers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on covert attacks that destroy American values and corrupt our government.
Publisher
History
Pub. Date
c2012.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carmegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States. a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological superpower the world had ever seen.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
xiv, 319 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Here is history that reads like fiction: the riveting story of two founding fathers of American industry -- Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick -- and the bloody steelworkers' strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry. Author Les Standiford begins at the bitter end, when the dying Carnegie proposes a final meeting after two decades of separation, probably to ease his own conscience. Frick's reply: "Tell him that I'll...
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