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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
336 pages cm
Description
Charts Stephen Miller's rise to power in the Trump administration, drawing from more than one hundred interviews with his family, friends, adversaries, and government officials, as well as years of reporting from the U.S. border.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"'If you are reading this, I am dead.' So begins this engrossing debut novel the ingeniously reimagines the extraordinary life and mysterious death of behemian Georgetown socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer, a woman ahead of her time, a feminist who lived by her own rules and paid the ultimately price for her independence. She was a longtime lover of JFK. She was the ex-wife of a CIA chief. She was the sister-in-law of the Washington Post's Ben Bradlee....
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Description
"The untold story of a national trauma-NASA's Challenger explosion-and what really happened to America's Teacher in Space, illuminating the tragic cost of humanity setting its sight on the stars"--
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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This story of imagination and expression introduces young readers to Gertrude and her life partner, Alice B. Toklas, who lived in Paris during a fascinating time in history. Divided into short chapters that chronicle different episodes in Gertrude and Alice's life, this book celebrates two women who were full of daring and creativity at a time when women were encouraged to be wives, not writers. Author Evie Robillard's playful second-person free verse...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xxvii, 809 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Description
The third and fourth presidents have long been considered proper and noble gentlemen, with Thomas Jefferson's genius overshadowing James Madison's judgment and common sense. But in this revelatory book, both leaders are seen as men of their times, ruthless and hardboiled operatives in a gritty world of primal politics where they struggled for supremacy for more than fifty years.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Roy Cohn was a ruthless and unscrupulous lawyer and political power broker whose 28-year career ranged from acting as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy's Communist-hunting subcommittee to molding the career of a young Queens real estate developer named Donald Trump.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
399 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm.
Description
This is the first book that offers a you-are-there look at the American Revolution through the eyes of the enlisted men. Through searing portraits of individual soldiers, Bruce Chadwick, author of George Washington's War, brings alive what it was like to serve then in the American army. With interlocking stories of ordinary Americans, he evokes what it meant to face brutal winters, starvation, terrible homesickness and to go into battle against the...
90) My life
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
957 p., xlii, [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
The former president looks back on his life and career, discussing his youth and education, his early public service, his years as governor of Arkansas, and his accomplishments during two terms in the White House.
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Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xi, 306 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"The untold story of the unique fifty-year friendship between two American icons: John Glenn, the unassailable pioneer of space exploration and Ted Williams, indisputably the greatest hitter in baseball history"--
92) 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...
93) James Dean
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
239 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 29 cm.
Description
Beginning with his upbringing in the Quaker community of Fairmount, Indiana to his tragic death on September 30, 1955 and the effects his departure had on the world, this is the only official book of the James Dean 50th anniversary celebration, written with assistance from the James Dean estate. Included are rare images and James Dean memorabilia, plus over 30 never-before-seen portraits from Dean family's private collection.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"In her hardcover debut, bestselling author Susan Jane Gilman describes a very different kind of back-packing trip to China in which she and her college friend set out to conquer the world only to be conquered by it"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
x, 416 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"A sweeping history of the intertwined careers of Dick Cheney and Colin Powell, whose rivalry and conflicting views of U.S. national security color our political debate to this day. Dick Cheney and Colin Powell emerged on the national scene more than thirty years ago, and it is easy to forget that they were once allies. It was Cheney who pressed for Powell's appointment as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, over the initial skepticism of the White...
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Publisher
Zinc Ink
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
318 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
""Honey, you are 300 sandwiches away from an engagement ring." When New York Post writer Stephanie Smith made a turkey and swiss on white bread for her boyfriend, Eric (aka E), he took one bite and uttered those now-famous words. While her beau's declaration initially seemed unusual, even antiquated, Stephanie accepted the challenge and got to work. Little did she know she was about to cook up the sexiest and most controversial love story of her generation....
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"From the great historian of the American Revolution, NYT-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent falling out did much to fix its course. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds, or been more different in temperament. Jefferson, the optimist with enough...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xi, 496 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
"Though Bill Clinton has been out of office since 2001, public fascination with him continues unabated. Many books about Clinton have been published in recent years, but no single-volume biography covers the full scope of Clinton's life from the cradle to the present day; and books on Clinton have tended to be highly polarized, casting the former president in an overly positive or negative light. In this, the first complete oral history of Clinton's...
100) Bag man
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
304 pages 22 cm
Description
"The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come-with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow's Peabody Award-nominated podcast. Is it possible for a sitting vice president to direct a vast criminal enterprise within the halls of the White House? To have one of the most brazen corruption scandals in American history play out while nobody's paying attention?...
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