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Michelle
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Liza Mundy |
Presents a portrait of Michelle Obama from her youth on the south side of Chicago and her education at Princeton and Harvard Law School to her relationship with Barack Obama and her views on politica… |
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Promises to keep
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Joseph R. Biden,Joseph R Biden |
"Nearly forty years after I first got involved, I remain captivated by the possibilities of politics and public service. In fact, I believe that my chosen profession is a noble calling. That's why I … |
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Robert Kennedy and his times
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
A biography of the Senator who was assassinated in 1968, stressing the public and personal forces and events that shaped his life. |
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Mutual contempt
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Jeff Shesol |
After the death of John Kennedy, LBJ and RFK were the dominant political figures of the 1960s, each fighting for the spotlight, each struggling to emerge from the other's shadow. Their arguments echo… |
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The dark side of Camelot
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Hersh, Seymour M. |
This monumental work of investigative journalism reveals the Kennedy White House as never before. With its meticulously documented & compulsively readable portrait of John F. Kennedy as a man whose r… |
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The Line of Beauty
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Alan Hollinghurst |
It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and t… |
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Hillary, histoire d'une ambition
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Jeff Gerth |
"Ce livre - nourri de sources inédites et de documents jusqu'ici confidentiels - nous éclaire sur sa véritable histoire." |
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Fatal fall
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Diane Capri |
"Investigative Reporter Jess Kimball's impossible mission to protect crime victims thrills in this new novel... When Jess Kimball's investigator finds a boy that could be her missing son, Jess races … |
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Profiles in courage
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John F. Kennedy |
Profiles eight historical figures who demonstrated particular integrity in the face of opposition, including John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, and Robert A. Taft. |
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The Audacity of Hope
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Claudia Casanova,Barack Obama,Esther Roig Giménez,Erwin Dorado |
Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics--a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the "endless clash of armies" we see in Congress and on the campaign trail; a… |
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Black Faces in the Mirror
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Katherine Tate |
"Katherine Tate examines the significance of race in the U.S. system of representative democracy for African Americans. Presenting important new findings, she offers the first empirical study to take… |
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The Collectors
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David Baldacci |
In Washington, D.C, where power is everything and too few have too much of it, four highly eccentric men with mysterious pasts call themselves the Camel Club. Their mission: find out what's really go… |
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Man of the House
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William Novak,Tip O'Neill |
Describes the political career of the politician from Massachusetts whose career spanned fifty years and who served as Speaker of the House for a decade. |
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Faith of my fathers
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Mark Salter John Mccain,John McCain,Mark Salter,John Mccain,John McCain |
John McCain is one of the most admired leaders in the United States government, but his deeply felt memoir of family and war is not a political one and ends before his election to Congress. With cand… |
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