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Rock me on the water : 1974 : the year Los Angeles transformed movies, music, television, and politics2021
Summary: Los Angeles in 1974 exerted more influence over popular culture than any other city in America. Working in film, recording, and television studios, a cluster of transformative talents produced an... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickKent State : four dead in Ohio2020
Summary: On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard gunned down unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Ohio. In a deadly barrage of sixty-seven shots, 4 students were... more »- place hold (0)
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This is what America looks like : my journey from refugee to Congresswoman2020
Summary: Ilhan Omar was only eight years old when war broke out in Somalia. The youngest of seven children, her mother had died while Ilhan was still a little girl. She was being raised by her father and... more »- place hold (0)
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Supreme inequality : the Supreme Court's fifty-year battle for a more unjust America2020
Summary: A revelatory examination of the conservative direction of the Supreme Court over the last fifty years since the Nixon administration. In the early 1960s, the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Earl... more »- place hold (0)
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The end of the myth : from the frontier to the border wall in the mind of America2020
Summary: Ever since this nation's founding, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, the frontier made possible the... more »- place hold (0)
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Born to fly : the first women's air race across America2019
Summary: Just nine years after American women finally got the right to vote, a group of trailblazers soared to new heights in the 1929 Air Derby, the first women's air race across the U.S. Follow the... more »- place hold (0)
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American carnage : on the front lines of the Republican civil war and the rise of President Trump2019
Summary: Tim Alberta provides a rollicking insider's look at the making of the modern Republican Party -- how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable... more »- place hold (0)
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How to hide an empire : a history of the greater United States2019
Summary: We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual... more »- place hold (0)
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American moonshot : John F. Kennedy and the great space race2019
Summary: As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, Douglas Brinkley takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the... more »- place hold (0)
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Winners take all : the elite charade of changing the world2018
Summary: Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can -- except ways... more »- place hold (0)
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Tailspin : the people and forces behind America's fifty-year fall -- and those fighting to reverse it2018
Summary: Journalist Steven Brill examines how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few. Covering the... more »- place hold (0)
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The soul of America : the battle for our better angels2018
Summary: The current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America, Meacham shows us how what Lincoln called the "better angels of our nature" have won the day. Painting surprising portraits... more »- place hold (0)
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The American spirit : who we are and what we stand for2017
Summary: This collection of speeches by historian David McCullough reminds us of fundamental American principles. Over the course of his distinguished career, David McCullough has spoken before Congress, the... more »- place hold (0)
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9 presidents who screwed up America : and four who tried to save her2016
Summary: Of the forty-four presidents who have led the United States, nine made mistakes that permanently scarred the nation. Which nine? Brion McClanahan, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the... more »- place hold (0)
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Killing Kennedy : the end of Camelot2012
Summary: Recounts in gripping detail the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy--and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the... more »- place hold (0)
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