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Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Why has President López Obrador become obsessed with some media outlets (especially with "conservatives"), that he considers his fiercest opponents? Why does he lie and misinform so confidently even when is presented with evidence against his claims? What are the political consequences of his defiant attitude towards facts?--
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution--leading to the violent attack on our Capitol on January 6th, 2021--by the House Republican leader who dared to stand up to it. In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to...
25) Servants
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Czechoslovakia, 1980, the totalitarian Communist regime demands allegiance from all its subjects, including the clergy. This film follows Michal and Juraj, two conflicted novitiates whose seminary is under increasing pressure by the Party to mold its students into satisfactory citizens. With the school on the brink of dissolution, and its head priest a target for blackmail, Michal and Juraj will have to choose between collaborating with the government...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xix, 394 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
Description
In 1981, emboldened by Ronald Reagan's election, a group of some fifty Republican operatives, evangelicals, oil barons, and gun lobbyists met in a Washington suburb to coordinate their attack on civil liberties and the social safety net. These men and women called their coalition the Council for National Policy. Over four decades, this elite club has become a strategic nerve center for channeling money and mobilizing votes behind the scenes. Its secretive...
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Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
447 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Months before Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that the United States was on the verge of entering another world war for which it was dangerously ill-prepared. The urgent times demanded a transformation of the economy, with the government bankrolling the unfathomably expensive task of enlisting millions of citizens while also producing the equipment necessary to successfully fight—all of which opened up opportunities for graft, fraud and...
28) A republic of scoundrels: the Schemers, intriguers & adventurers who created a new American nation
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xx, 348 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
This new look at Founding Fathers such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton goes beyond their common depictions as American saints to expose the sometimes selfish motives behind their actions.
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Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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The story of Gingrich’s rise from college professor, to architect of the Contract with America, to Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives is historic. There were many adventures, personalities, missteps, and victories on the road from a seemingly permanent House GOP minority to the first Republican majority in 40 years. These untold stories and inspiring lessons about the rise of modern conservatism are immensely relevant today as the United...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
389, 11 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
When he introduced Bernie Gunther in the original Berlin Noir trilogy, Philip Kerr immediately established himself as a thriller writer on par with Raymond Chandler. His new Bernie Gunther novels have won him comparisons with Alan Furst, John le Carré, and Graham Greene. A Quiet Flame finds Gunther in Argentina, circa 1950, where he- falsely accused of Nazi war crimes-has been offered a new life and a clean passport by the Perón government. But...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xi, 467 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
As witnesses were mysteriously murdered and the FBI, NSA, CIA and even the IRS were on the warpath in 1975, a senator named Frank Church stood almost alone in the face of extraordinary abuses of power.
33) Enough
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"Cassidy Hutchinson's desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history. Now, she provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where she risked everything to tell the truth about some of the most powerful people in Washington. Ever since a childhood visit to Washington, DC, Cassidy Hutchinson aspired to serve her country in...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiii, 450 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 21 cm
Description
As Henry VIII's right-hand man, Cromwell was the architect of the English Reformation, secured Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and plotted the downfall of Anne Boleyn, and upon his arrest, was accused of trying to usurp the King himself. Borman reveals a different side of one of the most notorious figures in history: that of a caring husband and father, a fiercely loyal servant and friend, and a revolutionary who helped make medieval England...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024].
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Even before the cataclysmic 2016 election, the Democratic Party had long been at war with itself-yet Joe Biden's narrow victory in 2020 bridged the divide. Facing the dire threat of a second Trump administration, Democrats forged an unlikely but effective coalition that stalled Trumpism at the ballot box and enacted a raft of consequential legislation. But how long can the uneasy peace hold, and can Biden win again?" --
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Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"A young Egyptian woman chronicles her personal and political coming of age in this debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother's phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives. Underlying this claustrophobic routine is mystery and loss....
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
vii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Founded in 1958 by a small band of anti-New Deal businessmen, the John Birch Society held that a vast communist conspiracy existed within America and posed an existential threat to the country. Birchers railed against the federal government, defended segregation, and accused liberal elites of conspiring to destroy the country's core values-Christianity, capitalism, and individual freedom. Shunned by the political establishment and mainstream media,...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
7 CDs (8 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This is the inside story of how a handful of Washington officials held a daring resistance to an unprecedented presidency and prevented chaos from overwhelming the government and the nation.
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Publisher
Ignatius Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
37 pages : color illustrations. ; 24 cm
Description
To restore peace and to unify his people, the great leader of the Iroquois, Hiawatha, brought the Iroquois tribes together in a federation. They named it the League of Five Nations. Hiawatha, a peacemaker ahead of his time, inspired many legends as he prepared the way for the Gospel to spread in North America. An engaging, colorful story that sets the scene for the missionary work of the heroic Jesuits of the 17th century!
40) Litvinenko
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (197 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Litvinenko, a former Russian spy dies in a London hospital, but not before naming his murderer. Poisoned with the deadliest substance known to man, detectives dive into a high-stakes murder investigation. Can they find justice for Litvinenko's family?
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