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Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Threshold Editions hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
295 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The host of the popular CNN Headline News television show and conservative radio talk-show personality presents his perspectives on issues ranging from nuclear technology in the Middle East and poor education ratings to the obesity epidemic and rising gas prices.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidency like no other journalist: a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that moves beyond simplistic caricature, chronicling his rise in New York City to his tortured post-presidency and his potential comeback. Few journalists working today have covered Donald Trump more extensively than Maggie Haberman. And few understand him and his motivations better....
Author
Series
Jack Ryan volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times-bestselling author and master of the techno-thriller returns with his All-Star team. There's a new strong man in Russia but his rise to power is based on a dark secret hidden decades in the past. The solution to that mystery lies with a most unexpected source, President Jack Ryan"--
There's a new strong man in Russia, but his rise to power is based on a dark secret hidden decades in the past, and the solution to that mystery...
46) Vote for me!
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A satire of American politics finds a donkey and an elephant resorting to just about anything to garner votes, and after all the mud-slinging is done and the votes are tallied, they are both quite surprised by the results.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a mysterious fatal car accident kills his predecessor, Congressman Charlie Marder struggles to navigate the dangerous waters of 1950s Washington, D.C., where he finds an underworld of backroom deals, secret societies, and a conspiracy at the highest levels of the government.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
History notes that the ugly feud between J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King, Jr., marked by years of illegal surveillance and the accumulation of secret files, ended on April 4, 1968 when King was assassinated by James Earl Ray. But that may not have been the case. Now, fifty years later, former Justice Department agent, Cotton Malone, must reckon with the truth of what really happened that fateful day in Memphis. It all turns on an incident from...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
The author offers his opinion about the rapidly declining state of politics, Hollywood, Medicare, and every social echelon of the nation, scathingly examining such powerful and famous people as Susan Sarandon, George W. Bush, and Dick Morris.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Threshold Editions hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 300 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The political activist and social-media star explains why she believes that the Democratic Party's policies hurt, rather than help, the African-American community, outlining the reasons that she and others are embracing Republican politics.
55) Nelson Mandela
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the childhood, political activities, imprisonment, family, and presidency of Nelson Mandela.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of the South African president and revolutionary, from his childhood and his work as a peaceful protestor to his twenty-seven-year imprisonment, his election as president, and his work to end apartheid in South Africa.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review).
In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew...
In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew...