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Jeff Greenfield
(873)
Summary: Veteran CBS News reporter and commentator Greenfield speculates what would have happened if an actual failed attempt to assassinate JFK before his inauguration instead succeeded; Robert Kennedy...
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Call #: 973.92 GRE
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Steven Brill
(886)
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...
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Call #: 306 BRI
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Christopher Caldwell
(1,144)
Summary: Conservative columnist Christopher Caldwell has spent years studying the liberal uprising of the 1960s and its unforeseen consequences. Even the reforms that Americans love best have come with costs...
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Call #: 305.24 CAL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Adam Jentleson
(2,269)
Summary: An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical minority of Americans are using "the greatest deliberative body in the world" to hijack our democracy. Every major decision governing...
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Call #: 328.73 JEN
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Bill D. Moyers
(348)
Summary: From the famed broadcaster and one of the nation's most-admired public figures, this collection of blisteringly eloquent speeches delivers inspiring words that embody the best of the American spirit....
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Call #: 320 MOY
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Jon Meacham
(7,758)
Summary: "In this brilliant biography, Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. Drawing on President Bush's personal diaries, on the diaries of his...
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Call #: B BUSH
Location: Adult Biographies
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J. Randy Taraborrelli
(395)
Summary: This is the hidden history of the exceptional women behind the Bush family political dynasty. Author J. Randy Taraborrelli reveals the unsung heroines of the inimitable Bush family dynasty: not only...
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Call #: 973.931 TAR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Stuart Stevens
(3,383)
Summary: Stevens spent decades electing Republicans at every level, from presidents to senators to local officials. Here he offers a devastating portrait of a party that has lost its moral and political...
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Call #: 324.2734 STE
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Summary: Danger, disillusionment, and betrayal reach an all-time high in the suspense-laced fifth season of The Americans. KGB agents Philip and Elizabeth Jennings' unwavering dedication to their work comes...
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Call #: DVD TV AMERICANS S5
Location: DVDs TV Series
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Summary: It is 1987, and an imminent Gorbachev-Reagan nuclear arms summit promises to ease world tensions. But life for the Jennings family is more precarious than ever: Elizabeth's relentless dedication as a...
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Call #: DVD TV AMERICANS S6
Location: DVDs TV Series
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Summary: Philip and Elizabeth find themselves at odds over their daughter's future now that the KGB is determined to recruit her. FBI agent Stan Beeman rededicates himself to uncovering the identities of the Russian spies.
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Call #: DVD TV AMERICANS S3
Location: DVDs TV Series
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Summary: Technological advances have escalated Cold War tensions to an all-time high, and undercover KGB operatives Elizabeth and Philip Jennings face the growing threat of discovery. As their assignments...
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Call #: DVD TV AMERICANS S2
Location: DVDs TV Series
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: Secrets can be deadly in this suspenseful thriller about undercover Russian spies in 1980s Washington D.C. Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings seem to be a typical suburban couple, but they're actually...
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Call #: DVD TV AMERICANS S1
Location: DVDs TV Series
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Eric Lichtblau
(1,483)
Summary: "The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis. Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II,...
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Call #: 324.13 LIC
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Summary: The story of American politics and military policies as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense, under President Kennedy and President Johnson, Robert S. McNamara. McNamara is a...
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Call #: DVD 973.92 FOG
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
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by
Christopher Matthews
(3,715)
Summary: Overlooked by his father, and overshadowed by his war-hero brother, Bobby Kennedy was the perpetual underdog. When he had the chance to become a naval officer like Jack, Bobby turned it down,...
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Call #: B KENNEDY
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Fredrik Logevall
(1,864)
Summary: By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation he had steered through some of the most perilous...
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Call #: B KENNEDY
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Larry Tye
(2,226)
Summary: "Bare-knuckle operative, cynical White House insider, romantic visionary—Robert F. Kennedy was all of these things at one time or another, and each of these aspects of his personality emerges in...
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Call #: B KENNEDY
Location: Adult Biographies
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