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Lessons in disaster
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Gordon M. Goldstein |
Drawing on prodigious research as well as the interviews and analysis he has conducted with former National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Goldstein offers this revelatory look at the decisions tha… |
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Ted Kennedy
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Klein, Edward |
In the most inspiring speech of his career, Ted Kennedy once vowed: "For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall ne… |
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Then everything changed
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Jeff Greenfield |
The New York Times bestseller from Jeff Greenfield, the renowned CBS News senior political correspondent and veteran of CNN and ABC news, offering an alternative history of America. These things are … |
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Pitchforks and torches
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Keith Olbermann |
Every weeknight on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, with his particular wit and style, Olbermann skewers politicians, celebrities, and people behaving badly. This book starts right after Presi… |
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The whole damn deal
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Kathryn J. McGarr |
"Robert S. Strauss was for many decades the quintessential Democratic power broker. Born to a poor Jewish family in West Texas, he founded the law firm that became Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, … |
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Raising eyebrows
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Dal LaMagna |
"The often hilarious and sometimes poignant story behind Dal LaMagna's rise in the beauty industry By the time LaMagna graduated from the Harvard Business School, his entrepreneurial activities-incl… |
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Mitt Romney
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R. B. Scott |
Shows how family, Mormon religion, and personal history have shaped presidential candidate Mitt Romney's political beliefs. |
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Frank
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Barney Frank,Barney Frank |
Growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, Barney Frank made two vital discoveries about himself: he was attracted to government, and to men. He resolved to make a career out of the first and to keep the sec… |
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Philomena
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Martin Sixsmith |
"When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a "fallen woman." Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousan… |
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Under this beautiful dome
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Terry Mutchler |
""One of the greatest love stories I have ever heard played out right here, under this beautiful dome. But it was a secret. Penny and Terry just wanted what so many people want-to express their love … |
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In her prime
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Glenn Puit |
Discusses the life and murder of Nevada politician Kathy Augustine. |
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Hatchet Jobs and Hardball
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Grant Barrett |
Here is a wonderful Baedeker to down-and-dirty politics--more than six hundred slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech.
Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford … |
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It still takes a candidate
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Jennifer L. Lawless |
"It Still Takes a Candidate serves as the only systematic, nationwide empirical account of the manner in which gender affects political ambition"--Provided by publisher.
"It Still Takes a Candidate … |
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The House of Truth
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Brad Snyder |
"Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose campaign. They self-mockingly called the 19th Street row house in which they congregated the 'House of Truth, ' playing off the lively dinner discussions with frequen… |
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Forgetting to be afraid
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Wendy Davis |
A deeply personal memoir by the 2014 Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate traces her upbringing by a single-mom high school dropout, her early divorce, her Harvard Law School education and the ea… |
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1858
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Bruce Chadwick |
"Highly recommended–a gripping narrative of the critical year of 1858 and the nation's slide toward disunion and war. Chadwick is especially adept at retelling the intense emotions of this critical t… |
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Trailblazer
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Lorenzo Benet |
Describes the life and career of the Alaskan governor, from her early life and education to her political career and her Vice-Presidential candidacy in the 2008 Presidential election. |
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American dreamers
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Kelly Bulkeley |
"When politicians and pundits refer to the American Dream, they do so to evoke images of national unity, identity, and a better future. But in what ways does this metaphor manifest in the actual drea… |
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American Creation
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Joseph J. Ellis |
From the first shots fired at Lexington to the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, Joseph J. Ellis guides us through the decisive issues of the … |
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The spellbinders
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Ann Ruth Willner |
The author examines power of charisma in political leadership and its consequences in the history of the 20th century including Gandhi, Hitler, Castro, Franklin Roosevelt, Sukarno, the Ayatollah Khom… |
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