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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Bolivian presidential candidate failing badly in the polls enlists the firepower of an elite American management team, led by the deeply damaged but still brilliant strategist "Calamity" Jane Bodine. In self-imposed retirement following a scandal that earned her nickname and rocked her to her core, Jane is coaxed back into the game for the chance to beat her professional nemesis, the loathsome Pat Candy, now coaching the opposition.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xii, 384 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Description
"From the New York Times-bestselling author Stephen M. Walt, The Hell of Good Intentions dissects the faults and foibles of recent American foreign policy-explaining why it has been plagued by disasters like the “forever wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan and outlining what can be done to fix it."--Amazon.com.
4) The confidante: the untold story of the woman who helped win World War II and shape modern America
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
As Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s special envoy to Europe in World War II Anna Rosenberg went where the president couldn’t go. She was among the first Allied women to enter a liberated concentration camp, and stood in the Eagle’s Nest, Hitler’s mountain retreat, days after its capture. She guided the direction of the G.I. Bill of Rights and the Manhattan Project. Though Anna Rosenberg emerged from modest immigrant beginnings, equipped with only...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
288 pages
Description
"A memoir from Valerie Biden Owens, Joe Biden's younger sister, trusted confidante and lifelong campaign manager. Valerie, one of the first female campaign managers in United States history, writes of the role of family, faith, and fate in shaping her life, and the power of empathy and kindness in the face of turmoil and division. Growing Up Biden details Valerie's decades-long professional career in politics, and the central role she played in her...
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (430 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When trouble rears its ugly head, headline-making, life-ruining trouble, there's only one person to call: the legendary Olivia Pope. With her steadfast rule of always trusting her gut, Olivia leads an expert team of crisis management consultants skilled at making even the most sordid, salacious scandals disappear. But as these self-proclaimed 'gladiators in suits' begin to reveal the cracks in their armor, will the masters of damage control be able...
Publisher
ABC Studios
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (903 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Oval Office is up for grabs, and none of the players are playing nice, including Olivia Pope, who now realizes she can never be content as a wifely First Lady. Domestic bliss pales in comparison with holding the reins of the highest office in the land, so when faced with a chance to wield unrivaled influence at any cost, will she continue to wear the white hat, or prove that she is, indeed, her father2s daughter?
9) Elimination
Author
Series
Dev Conrad mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
Political consultant Dev Conrad investigates an assassination attempt on one of his clients, congresswoman Jessica Bradshaw, but could the reason someone wants her dead run deeper than politics?
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (946 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When trouble rears its ugly head, headline-making, life-ruining trouble, there's only one person to call: the legendary Olivia Pope. With her steadfast rule of always trusting her gut, Olivia leads an expert team of crisis management consultants skilled at making even the most sordid, salacious scandals disappear. But as these self-proclaimed 'gladiators in suits' begin to reveal the cracks in their armor, will the masters of damage control be able...
Publisher
ABC Studios
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (774 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Now, seemingly invincible "fixer" Olivia Pope must confront the ultimate challenge: fixing herself. After sifting through her mysterious father's labyrinth of lies, Olivia's search for answers about her mother threatens not just national security, but the entire world. Meanwhile, the lives of her "gladiators", as well as those of the president, his wife and key White House staffers, take sinister, unexpected turns.
Author
Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xiii, 237 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Called "a world-class power broker" by the Washington Post, Robert Brown has been a sought-after counselor for an impressive array of the famous and powerful, including every American president since John F. Kennedy. But as a child born into poverty in the 1930s, Robert was raised by his grandmother to think differently about success. For example, "The best way to influence others is to be helpful," she told him. And, "You cant go wrong by doing right."...
14) Power challenges
Author
Series
Jake Ross volume 4
Publisher
Caezik SF & Fantasy, an imprint of Arc Manor/Shahid Mahmud Publisher
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
It is time to start the colonizing the solar system. Ex-astronaut, current space advisor, and all-out trouble shooter for the President, Jake Ross, is determined to make it happen. And what better way to return to America's glory than by returning to the moon and setting up a permanent moon-base which can then serve as the launching pad for Mars and beyond. But as usual, political intrigue and conflicting priorities are threatening the whole program....
Author
Series
Peter Rena and Randi Brooks volume 4
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Billionaire entrepreneur David Traynor has big dreams for fixing a broken government in his first term as president of the United States. In the months before his inauguration, he's developed daring and, in some cases, secret strategies to solve the climate crisis, force Congress to work again, and rebuild America's economy-and that's just the beginning. Everyone in the capital is scrambling to adapt to the new disruptor in chief's bold agenda, though...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiv, 364 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Political Prisoner tells the real story of Paul's life and career, exploding the lies about his work in Ukraine, his previous work with foreign governments and business interests in other countries, his involvement with the Trump campaign, and the "process crimes" for which he was wrongly convicted and sent to prison"--
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
320 pages ; cm
Description
Dre Ross has one more shot. Despite being a successful political consultant, his aggressive tactics have put him on thin ice with his boss, Mrs. Fitz, who plucked him from juvenile incarceration and mentored his career. She exiles him to the backwoods of South Carolina with $250,000 of dark money to introduce a ballot initiative on behalf of a mining company. The goal: to manipulate the locals into voting to sell their pristine public land to the...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
vi, 506 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"As a highly respected pollster for corporate and Republican clients and a frequent television talk show guest, Kellyanne Conway had already established herself as one of the brightest lights on the national political scene when Donald Trump asked her to run his presidential campaign. She agreed, delivering him to the White House, becoming the first woman in American history to manage a winning presidential campaign, and changing the American landscape...
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Follows James Carville, Jeremy Rosner and a team of political consultants as they launch a media-savvy campaign for Bolivian presidential candidate Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. With unprecedented access to think sessions, media training and the making of smear campaigns, witness a shocking example of America 'spreading democracy' overseas and its earth-shattering aftermath"--Container.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xvii, 540 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"The most powerful political tool of the modern presidency is control of the message and the image. The Greeks called it 'rhetoric, ' Gilded Age politicians called it 'publicity, ' and some today might call it 'lying, ' but spin is a built-in feature of American democracy. Presidents deploy it to engage, persuade, and mobilize the people-- in whom power ultimately resides. Presidential historian David Greenberg recounts the development of the White...
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