Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in, and to everyone's surprise the president chooses a political enemy for the vital position of secretary of state. There is no love lost between the president of the United States and Ellen Adams, his new secretary of state. But it's a canny move on the part of the president. With this appointment, he silences one of his harshest critics, since taking the job...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency--a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power" gives readers Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously, catapulting him into becoming the most successful political leader of the early republic, and perhaps in all of American history.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 796 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of America's sixteenth president portrays Lincoln as a man of integrity whose moral compass holds the key to understanding his life, examining his speeches, his ideas on slavery, his religious odyssey, and his role as Commander-in-Chief.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The former Republican presidential nominee chronicles his political career from the election of Barack Obama through the divisive 2016 election, offering his opinions of the current developments in Washington as well as his recommendations for ongoing international challenges.
Author
Language
English
Description
Ron Chernow vividly re-creates the whole sweep of Alexander Hamilton's life - his exotic, brutal upbringing; his titanic feuds with celebrated rivals; his pivotal role in defining the shape of the federal government; his shocking illicit romances; and his famous death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July 1804.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 350 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Drawn from intelligence gathered by Western governments and interviews with defectors, a biography of the Iraqi leader traces his life and discusses his role in international terrorism.
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...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"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,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. maps ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Each letter of the alphabet is represented by important people, ideas, and events in the history of the United States.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 336 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the lives and roles of thirteen vice presidents of the modern era, discussing the complicated relationship between president and vice president and how this connection influenced each vice president's political future.
Author
Language
English
Description
"THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT. With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
America's preeminent columnist presents his penetrating and surprising reflections on everything from embryo research to entitlement reform, from Halley's Comet to border collies, from Christopher Columbus to Martin Luther King, from drone warfare to American decline. Selected essays previously published in various periodicals and journals are featured.
17) Grant
Author
Language
English
Description
"Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most complicated generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Physical Desc
xix, 916 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An analysis of Abraham Lincoln's political talents identifies the character strengths and abilities that enabled his successful election, in an account that also describes how he used the same abilities to rally former opponents in winning the Civil War.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Recounts the murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and how gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.
20) My life
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 92
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
The former president looks back on his life and career, discussing his youth and education, his early public service, his years as governor of Arkansas, and his accomplishments during two terms in the White House.