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Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Though Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln's backgrounds differed considerably, both were intellectuals who shared interests in literature and politics, as well as a great love for each other.
63) Grant
Author
Language
English
Description
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 War; or as a credulous and hapless president whose tenure came to symbolize the worst excesses of the Gilded Age. These stereotypes don't come close to capturing adequately his spirit and the sheer magnitude of his monumental accomplishments....
Author
Series
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a variety of unusual and noteworthy details about the first president of the United States to do various things, presidential hobbies and accomplishments, the White House, and other information about presidents.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Carl Hiaasen's Squeeze Me is set among the landed gentry of Palm Beach. A prominent high-society matron--who happens to be a fierce supporter of the President and founding member of the POTUSSIES--has gone missing at a swank gala. When the wealthy dowager Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons is later found dead in a concrete grave, panic and chaos erupt. The President immediately declares that Kiki Pew was the victim of rampaging immigrant hordes. This, as it turns...
71) Rage
Author
Language
English
Description
"An unprecedented and intimate tour de force of original reporting on the Trump presidency from Bob Woodward. Rage goes behind the scenes like never before, with stunning new details about early national security decisions and operations and Trump's moves as he faces a global pandemic, economic disaster and racial unrest. Woodward, the #1 internationally bestselling author of 13 #1 bestsellers, including Fear: Trump in the White House, shows Trump...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A multigenerational saga of two families, who rose from immigrant roots to the pinnacle of wealth and power, that tracks the unraveling of American democracy. In American Oligarchs, award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein tells the story of the Trump and Kushner families like never before. Their journey to the White House is a story of survival and loss, crime and betrayal, that stretches from the Klondike Gold Rush, through Nazi-occupied...
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Growing up poor in the backwoods of Kentucky and Indiana, Abraham Lincoln lost his mother before he was ten. But Sally Johnston, who married Abe's father a year later, brought a library of books to their log cabin home and turned young Abe's life around.
74) Coolidge
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A 2reexamination of America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership.
78) The greatest presidential stories never told: 100 tales from history to astonish, bewilder & stupefy
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A collection of lesser-known presidential tales relates such accounts as Abraham Lincoln's saber duel, George Washington's whiskey business, and the Ronald Reagan movie that saved the fortieth president's life decades later.
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