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2023.
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"A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution--leading to the violent attack on our Capitol on January 6th, 2021--by the House Republican leader who dared to stand up to it. In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to...
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Publisher
Forefront Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger recounts his defense of the results of the 2020 presidential election in his state and the surrounding events, as well as discussion of events following the 2018 race for governor of Georgia.
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Joe Biden grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the oldest of four children. His parents always encouraged him and his siblings to be independent and strong. The family moved to Wilmington, Delaware, where at twenty-nine, Biden was elected one the youngest United States Senators ever elected. This is his story.
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Twelve
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A former chief Republican strategist and best-selling author examines the five driving forces on the Right-financers, propagandists, party support, legal theories to legitimize and shock troops-and makes clear how they are working in concert to end our democracy as we know it.
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English
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"Beginning with President Trump's first impeachment and ending with his second, [this book] chronicles the inside-the-room deliberations between Trump and his campaign team as they opened 2020 with a sleek political operation built to harness a surge of momentum from a bullish economy, a unified Republican Party, and a string of domestic and foreign policy successes--only to watch everything unravel when fortunes suddenly turned. With first-rate sourcing...
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English
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"Voter suppression has plagued America since its inception, and so has the issue of identity-who is really American and what that means. When tied together, as they are in our modern politics, citizens are harmed in overt, subtle, and even personal ways. Stacey Abrams experienced the effects firsthand, running one of the most unconventional races in modern politics as the Democratic nominee for the governorship in Georgia and the first black woman...
9) This land
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The lives of everyday Americans are examined in this fly-on-the-wall film shot on Election Day 2020 in nearly every state.
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Center Street
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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From the spread of the coronavirus to the highs and lows of the economy, the 2020 election will continue America's process of change. Gingrich goes back to the summer to 2015 to show how the radical Democratic Left is continuing its all out efforts to destroy President Trump and his followers. He puts the changes into context, and outlines the choices Americans face in what will be the most decisive election of our lifetimes. -- adapted from jacket...
11) Peril
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Simon & Schuster
Language
English
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Bob Woodward and Robert Costa cover the end of the Trump presidency and the early months of the Biden presidency.
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Almost no one thought Joe Biden could make it back to the White House--not Donald Trump, not the two dozen Democratic rivals who sought to take down a weak front-runner, not the mega-donors and key endorsers who feared he could not beat Bernie Sanders, not even Barack Obama. The story of Biden's cathartic victory in the 2020 election is the story of a Democratic Party at odds with itself, torn between the single-minded goal of removing Donald Trump...
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Contains the full report by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, featuring the facts, circumstances and causes related to the assault on the Capitol Complex garnered from more than one thousand witness interviews.
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Dey St
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
"This book is about the presidency and the woman who -- whoever she is! -- will eventually hold the title Madame President and occupy the Oval Office. It's about the road that female candidates have traveled with the goal of getting there. It's a story about me -- a woman who got to see, up close, more of them strive for the Oval Office at one time than ever before and who innately understood the invisible forces that, oftentimes, worked against them....
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The story of Trump's last months at the helm of the country, based on [the author's] ... access to White House aides and to the former president himself, yielding a wealth of new information and insights about what really happened inside the highest office in the land, and the world"--
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Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Get to know Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a first-of-his-kind candidate running for a one-of-a-kind office, in Rob Sanders' inspiring picture book biography, featuring illustrations by Levi Hastings. When Pete Buttigieg announced he was running for president, he became the first openly gay candidate to run for the Democratic partys presidential nomination and the first millennial ever to pursue the office. But before the nation knew him as Mayor Pete,
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Publisher
Crown Forum
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Donald Trump is exactly the disaster we feared for America. Hated by a majority of Americans, Trump's administration is rocked by daily scandals, and he's embarrassed us at home and abroad. Trump can't win in 2020, right? Wrong. As 2016 proved, Trump can't win, but the Democrats can sure as hell lose. Only one thing can save Trump, and that's a Democratic candidate who runs the race Trump wants them to run instead of the campaign they must run to...
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Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Presents the full text of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol's report, which addresses the origins of the insurrection, how it was organized and funded and the role of Donald Trump and other high-ranking officials"--
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