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681) The dangerous case of Donald Trump: 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts assess a president
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xix, 360 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Since the start of Donald Trump's presidential run, one question has quietly but urgently permeated the observations of concerned citizens: What is wrong with him? Constrained by the American Psychiatric Association's "Goldwater rule," which inhibits mental health professionals from diagnosing public figures they have not personally examined, many of those qualified to answer this question have shied away from discussing the issue at all. The public...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
729 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Publisher's description: The only book with exclusive analysis by the Pulitzer Prize-winning staff of The Washington Post, and the most complete and authoritative available. Read the findings of the Special Counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, complete with accompanying analysis by the Post reporters who've covered the story from the beginning. This edition from The Washington Post/Scribner contains: --The long-awaited...
Series
Eclipse volume 33
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 301 min.) : color and black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Presents five feature films directed by Robert Downey Sr., showcasing his comedic and experimental style, and featuring "Babo 73," "Chafed Elbows," "No More Excuses," "Putney Swope," and "Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight."
Babo 73: Taylor Mead plays the President of the United States, who, when he isn't at the White House, conducts his top-secret affairs on a deserted beach.
Chafed Elbows: Follows a shiftless downtown Manhattanite having his...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recounts the assassination and excruciating final months of President James Garfield's life. A brilliant scholar, courageous general, and fervent abolitionist, Garfield never wanted the job of president. But once in office, he worked tirelessly to reunite a nation still divided 15 years after the Civil War. As he lay dying, the North and South came together to pray for his recovery.
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxii, 485 pages ; 25 cm
Description
A wide-ranging treasury of presidential writings is comprised of history-shaping and lesser-known speeches, excerpts, and personal notes, from Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and FDR's "Infamy" speech to JFK's "Profiles in Courage" and Barack Obama's "Dreams of My Father."
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
444 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Crisis has a way of laying bare our truest selves: who we trust, which principles and impulses we heed, whose lives we deem expendable. As it ravaged millions of lives, the Covid-19 pandemic revealed and accentuated the dividing lines that had already, for decades, splintered American public life. Against the backdrop of the 2020 presidential election, misinformation regimes, and the transformation of the facemask into a flagrant political symbol,...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xii, 464 pages ; 25 cm
Description
It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the tragic story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate, no explanation of defeat can begin with anything other than the core problem of Hillary's campaign -- the candidate herself. Through deep access to insiders from the top to the bottom...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 401 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Every evening for 8 years, at his request, President Obama received a binder containing ten handpicked letters from ordinary American citizens -- the unfiltered voice of a nation -- from his Office of Presidential Correspondence. He was the first to President to save constituent mail, and this is the story of how those letters affected not only the President and his policies, but also the deeply committed people who were tasked with opening the millions...
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Publisher
Goldhil Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the federal government with a look at the functions and structure of the three branches : Executive Branch, Legislative Branch, and Judicial Branch. Includes information on how United States government is set up with a checks and balances system. Offers some insights through comments by educators and elected officials.
690) Great presidents
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
24 CDs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (266 p. ; 22 cm.)
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (954 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The President and staff have been targeted for disruption by rival politicians, soon after being targeted by would-be assassins. The President heads through midterm elections and into a crisis that leads to allegations of criminal conduct. 22 episodes.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xviii, 429 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Over his 50-year career in Washington, Joe Biden has become known for his wild dishonesty, embarrassing policy failings, and an absolute lack of accountability, culminating in his predictably unpopular presidency. But what has not yet been revealed is the vast web of consultants, bureaucrats, corporate titans, foreign interests, and various extended family members (it's not just Hunter!) who have achieved unfathomable wealth and power while keeping...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"With vivid storytelling and access to insider accounts, Weiner sets out to trace the roots of Russian-American political warfare--conflict waged without weapons--over the last seven decades to understand how a president landed in the White House with the help of an expansive, covert Russian campaign. Russia's modern revival of Soviet-era intelligence operations constitutes one of the most significant threats to democracy in the United States and...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
959 pages (large print) ; 25 cm.
Description
A lively and essential chronicle of the only consecutive trio of two-term presidencies of the same political party in American history, from the bestselling author of Thomas Jefferson: Revolutionary and James Madison. Before the consecutive two-term administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, there had only been one other trio of its type: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe. Kevin R. C. Gutzman's The...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (487 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From executive producer Stephen Colbert comes this hilarious look into the Trump presidency, animation style. Starring two-dimensional avatars of Donald Trump and his merry band of insiders and family members, this cutting-edge comedy presents the truish adventures of Trump, his confidants and bon vivants. It's a workplace comedy where the office is oval, a character study in search of character, and a timely political send-up of our always-colorful...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xviii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political acumen of Abraham Lincoln via sixteen encounters before and during his presidency, bringing to light not only the strategy of a great politician who inherited a country divided, but lessons for our own disorderly present. In 1855, as the United States found itself at odds over the issue of slavery, then lawyer Abraham Lincoln composed a note on the...
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 433 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The law-enforcement and intelligence arms of government were placed in the service of the Democratic presidential bid and, failing that, were deployed against the incoming Republican administration, with the goal of strangling it in the cradle. The media-Democrat "collusion narrative," scandalizing...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (954 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The 22-episode third season whose storylines include the investigation into the alleged cover-up of President Barlet's illness, the early bid for a second term and confrontations with global terrorism. Reel- and real-life events profoundly intersect in the historic Isaac and Ishmael episode made in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. And must-see bonus features include a special The West Wing look at the executive branch featuring...
Author
Publisher
Audio Works, Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
10 CDs (11 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The intimate and astonishing audio archive of Bob Woodward's 20 interviews with Donald Trump. In this up-close, unvarnished self-portrait of Trump and his presidency, listeners will hear Trump as Woodward did: profane, incautious, divisive, and deceptive, but also engaging and entertaining, ever the host and the salesman, trying to sell his presidency to win Woodward over. Relying on familiar devices, airing grievances, stoking divisions, repeating...
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