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Presidents of the U.S.A Presidents of the U.S.A Cornel Adam Lengyel Brief biographical sketches describing the family life, social background, political careers, and administrations of each of the Presidents from George Washington to Jimmy Carter. OL1146987W
Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln Carl Sandburg This definitive, single-volume edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography delivers “a Lincoln whom no other man . . . could have given us” (New York Herald Tribune Book Review). Celebrated fo… OL1164736W
The President as world leader The President as world leader Sidney Warren Study of a presidential function of modern days. Analyzes the extent to which presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to John F. Kennedy have met their responsibilities as world leaders. OL1195755W
Mutual contempt Mutual contempt 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… OL15856141W
In search of identity In search of identity Anwar Sadat Contains primary source material. OL1609144W
The dark side of Camelot The dark side of Camelot 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… OL1804614W
Shall we tell the President? Shall we tell the President? Jeffrey Archer After years of great sacrifice and deep personal tragedy, Florentyna Kane's has finally become the first woman president in America. But on the very day that she is sworn into office, powerful forces… OL1807092W
Presidents, politics, and policy Presidents, politics, and policy Erwin C. Hargrove This book argues that presidential power is a mixture of constitutional, cultural and political, and individual elements that manifest themselves in recurring historical cycles of politics and policy. OL1841385W
Team of Rivals Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln is a 2005 book by Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, published by Simon & Schuster. The book is a biographical por… OL1856010W
The Road to Normalcy The Road to Normalcy Wesley Marvin Bagby The election of 1920 was one of the most momentous in Ameri¬ can history, with great impact on both foreign and domestic policies. One result was American rejection of membership in the League of Nat… OL1866444W
Libra Libra Don DeLillo In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious sta… OL1921198W
FDR FDR Ted Morgan Morgan is one of the few biographers of Franklin Roosevelt to attempt a complete life in one volume. His Roosevelt, opportunistic and shallow as a young man, was transformed by his fight with polio. … OL1961779W
Prisoners of the White House Prisoners of the White House Kenneth T. Walsh One can scarcely imagine an environment outside the nation's penal system that is more isolating than the Executive Mansion, a habitat almost guaranteed to keep America's commander in chief far remov… OL19967066W
Le chemin de la vérité Le chemin de la vérité Lech Wałęsa Que de chemin parcouru depuis ce jour d'août 1980 où, à Gdansk, un électricien des chantiers navals Lénine signait des accords instituant le droit de grève et reconnaissant la légitimité du syndicat … OL24204247W
Traces de poudre Traces de poudre Richard North Patterson Le président des Etats-Unis, le démocrate Kerry Francis Kilcannon, s'attaque à la réglementation de son pays sur les armes à feu mais le lobby pro-armes, soutien du parti républicain, ne se laisse pa… OL24303595W
Le Président de la République a disparu Le Président de la République a disparu Olivier Renaudin Le Conseil des ministres tient sa dernière réunion avant les vacances. Le président de la République quitte le palais, de nuit, pour se retirer à "L'Epinette", maison isolée et abandonnée. Il y demeu… OL24689939W
Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela Johanne Ménard "Ce numéro décrit la vie de cet ardent défenseur des droits des Noirs en Afrique du Sud2 : celui qui mit fin à l'apartheid, devint le premier président noir de son pays et obtint un prix Nobel de la … OL24809355W
Running the Riders Running the Riders Jim Hopson "The Saskatchewan Roughriders were mired in mediocrity, a decent football team that couldn't advance to the Grey Cup as the franchise worked its way out of financial distress and tried to reconnect w… OL26455294W
John Adams John Adams David McCullough In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared no… OL2820749W
Presidential elections Presidential elections Aaron Wildavsky,Nelson W. Polsby Describes and analyzes the process by which Presidents of the United States are nominated and elected, appraises voting behavior and the influence of nonparty, independent activists, and suggests pos… OL2947651W
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