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"In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both hispolitical education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency--a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil"--
2) Peril
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"Bob Woodward and Robert Costa cover the end of the Trump presidency and the early months of the Biden presidency. The transition from President Donald J. Trump to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stands as one of the most dangerous periods in American history. Woodward and Costa take readers deep inside the Trump White House, the Biden White House, the 2020 campaign, and the Pentagon and Congress, with vivid, eyewitness accounts of what really happened....
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From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidency like no other journalist: a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that moves beyond simplistic caricature, chronicling his rise in New York City to his tortured post-presidency and his potential comeback. Few journalists working today have covered Donald Trump more extensively than Maggie Haberman. And few understand him and his motivations better....
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Pub. Date
2017.
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"The breathtaking latest installment in Bill OReilly and Martin Dugards mega-bestselling Killing series transports readers to the most important era in our nations history, the Revolutionary War. Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britains King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts...
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"0900, Thursday, July 25, 2019: President Trump called Ukraine?s President Zelensky, supposedly to congratulate him on his recent victory. In the months that followed, the American public would only learn what happened on that call because Alexander Vindman felt duty-bound to report it up the chain of command: that the President of the United States had extorted a foreign ally to damage a political challenger at home. Vindman?s actions and subsequent...
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Century trilogy volume 3
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East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but a much more personal battle of his own. Cameron Dewar,...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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235 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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The former official White House photographer compares the most recent two administrations via photos of Barack Obama side-by-side with tweets, headlines, and quotes from the Trump administration.
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State of Terror follows Ellen Adams, a novice Secretary of State, who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray and the secretary is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy, a scheme carefully designed to take advantage of an American government dangerously out...
9) Blowback
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US President Keegan Barrett has swept into office on his success as Director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with deadly consequences. Barrett personally orders CIA agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided. The CIA serves at the pleasure of the president, yet they’ve sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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xix, 677 pages ; 24 cm.
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Based on hundreds of interviews with all the key players, a dramatic work of investigative reporting examines how Congress twice fumbled its best chance to hold accountable a president many considered one of the most dangerous in American history.
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Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
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294 pages
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"Enough with the infighting, the truth-denying, the wild conspiracy claims, the looking backward, and the refusal to focus on the dangerous Biden agenda. Here's Chris Christie's urgent guide for recapturing Republican glory and winning elections again, told with all the New Jersey frankness and news-breaking insights that have made the two-term governor, Trump early endorser, and presidential candidate an indispensable voice and instant New York Times...
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Twelve
Pub. Date
2022.
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viii, 388 pages ; 24 cm
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AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS offers readers a brisk, can-you-believe-this journey through the netherworld of far-right irrationality and explores its interactions with the GOP. It tells the tale of how the Republican Party has turned into a conspiracy cult, kicking ideology and policy principles to the curb in support of a president who embraced and exploited-and stirred-the most bizarre and craziest extremism of the right. The Trump-incited insurrectionist...
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When the tyrannical ruler Stalin dies, his hapless inner circle scrambles to come up with the next evolution of the revolution, but it's clear everyone is really out for themselves. Proof that comedy, like politics, is all in the execution.
14) Shadow dancer
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Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In 1990s Belfast, IRA member Colette becomes an informant for the MI5 to protect her son.
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Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
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105 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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Describes the life of the South African president and revolutionary, from his childhood and his work as a peaceful protestor to his twenty-seven-year imprisonment, his election as president, and his work to end apartheid in South Africa.
16) GBH
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Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010?]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 588 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It begins innocently enough: a politician calls a strike, and the headmaster of a local school inadvertently sabotages it. Soon the men are caught in a power struggle of epic proportions.
17) The spy factory
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PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
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1 DVD (56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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This videodisc exposes the hidden, high-tech workings of the world's largest intelligence agency, the National Security Agency (NSA) and a report on the threat to privacy and the effectiveness of high-tech surveillance in the age of terrorism.
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Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 5
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Square Fish/Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012.
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142 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Kitty decides to run for President of the Neighborhood Cat Association.
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Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color), portrait, photographs ; 20 cm
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Follows Abraham Lincoln from his childhood to the presidency, showing how he spoke up about fairness and eventually led the country to abolish slavery.
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Sugar23 Books, Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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309 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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The former chief speechwriter for President Obama provides an account of ten days in his presidency in June 2015 in the shadow of a racist massacre in Charleston and two impending Supreme Court decisions.
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