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Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xix, 712 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pulitizer Prize biographer Robert A. Caro follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career, describing Johnson's volatile relationship with John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy during the fight they waged for the 1960 Democratic nomination for president, through Johnson's unhappy vice presidency, his assumption to the presidency after Kennedy's assassination, his victories over the budget and civil...
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Language
English
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From the dramatic redbrick facade to the sweeping staircase dripping with art, the Chelsea Hotel has long been New York City's creative oasis for the many artists, writers, musicians, actors, filmmakers, and poets who have called it home-a scene playwright Hazel Riley and actress Maxine Mead are determined to use to their advantage. Yet they soon discover that the greatest obstacle to putting up a show on Broadway has nothing to do with their art,...
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English
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"When I got knocked down by guys bigger than me . . . [my mother] sent me back out and demanded that I bloody their nose so I could walk down the street the next day."-Joe Biden
In this, the first definitive biography of Vice President Joe Biden, renowned journalist Jules Witcover examines the fascinating life of a man who, with his tenacity, outspokenness, and charming smile, has shaped Washington politics for the past forty years and who now serves...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 372 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A definitive collection of letters by and to JFK offers unique insights into his character and times, in a volume that includes correspondences with such figures as Martin Luther King Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, and a young John Kerry.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxi, 580 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws on unpublished memoirs, unreleased government files, private papers, and interviews with Kennedy's close family and colleagues to chronicle his transformation from 1950s cold warrior to a liberal champion of the working class, the poor, and minorities.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Threshold Editions hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
565 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The former vice president of the United States reflects on his influential tenure in a memoir which also includes details from his personal life.
Author
Language
English
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Examines the relationship between Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, from the politics that divided them to the marriage that united their families. Despite being separated by age and temperament, their association evolved into a collaboration that helped to shape the nation's political ideology, foreign policy, and domestic goals.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 10 hr.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents a scrapbook view of the 1970s, from disco to the debut of Saturday Night Live, from the My Lai Massacre to Nixon's resignation, in ten segments, each covering one year.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
738 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ted Kennedy is a biography of one of modern America's most fascinating and consequential political figures, drawing on important new sources, by the biographer who covered Kennedy closely for many years"--
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 394 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of Hunter S. Thompson's crusade against Richard Nixon and the threat of fascism in America--and the devastating price he paid for it. Hunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-cracking, drug-addled cartoon character. This book reclaims him for what he truly was: a fearless opponent of corruption and fascism, one who sacrificed his future well-being to fight against it, rewriting the rules of journalism and political satire in the...
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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xvii, 423 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A magnificent personal history of a time when two great political opponents -- President Ronald Reagan and Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill -- served together from 1980-1986 for the benefit of the country.
A personal history of a time when two great political opponents served together for the benefit of the country. Matthews was a top aide to Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, who waged a principled war of political ideals with President Reagan from...
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Language
English
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Description
"An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical minority of Americans are using "the greatest deliberative body in the world" to hijack our democracy. Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the US Senate, yet the Senate allows an almost exclusively white, predominantly male, and radically conservative minority of the American electorate to impose its will on...
Author
Publisher
NorthSouth
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
53 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
""The time has come for this Nation to fulfill its promise." John F. Kennedy was born one hundred years ago. As America's thirty-fifth president, he often took bold actions: establishing a peace corps and challenging Americans to land on the moon. But on civil rights, it took the urging and the example of other courageous people--leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Jackie Robinson, and even students and children--to help him realize that the...
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Language
English
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"From New York Times bestselling celebrity biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli comes Grace & Steel, the epic, hidden history of the exceptional women behind the greatest political dynasty of all time--the Bush family. Bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrelli reveals the unsung heroines of the inimitable Bush family dynasty: not only First Ladies Barbara and Laura, but other colorful women whose stories have been left out of history for far too long,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 792 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the Cold War era. Born in 1917 to a striving Irish American family that had ascended the ranks of Boston's labyrinthine political machine, Kennedy was bred for government, and his meteoric rise to become the youngest president ever...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A revealing new portrait of Robert F. Kennedy that gets closer to the man than any book before, by bestselling author Chris Matthews, an esteemed Kennedy expert and anchor of MSNBC's Hardball. With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews shared a new look of one of America's most beloved Presidents and the patriotic spirit that defined him. Now, with Bobby, Matthews returns with a gripping, in-depth, behind-the-scenes portrait of...
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