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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Recounts Abraham Lincoln's brief friendship with African American leader Frederick Douglass before and during the Civil War, narrated against the backdrop of the race relations and politics of the time.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Language
English
Formats
Description
With Fire and Fury Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; in Siege he wrote an explosive account of a presidency under fire. Now, Wolff closes the story of Trump's four years in office and his tumultuous last months at the helm of the country, based on Wolff's extraordinary 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...
Author
Language
English
Description
George W. Bush covers the entire scope of the elder President Bush's life and career, including his service in the Pacific during World War II, his pioneering work in the Texas oil business, and his political rise as a Congressman, U.S. Representative to China and the United Nations, CIA Director, Vice President, and 41st President of the United States.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Following the framework of "This is the house that Jack built", tells the story of how George Washington had a home built for the future presidents. Includes a section describing the many changes made to the White House over the years, and an author's note with more historical detail.
87) Bill Clinton
Author
Publisher
Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
As THE BIDENS reveals, the best way to understand Joe Biden his values, fears, and motives is to understand his family: Their Irish (and not-so-Irish) roots, their place in the Delaware pecking order, their dodgy business deals, and their personal struggles and triumphs alike.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this autobiography, President "Carter tells what he is proud of and what he might do differently. He discusses his regret at losing his re-election, but how he and Rosalynn pushed on and made a new life and second and third rewarding careers. He is frank about the presidents who have succeeded him, world leaders, and his passions for the causes he cares most about, particularly the condition of women and the deprived people of the developing world"--Amazon.com....
90) Peril
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bob Woodward and Robert Costa cover the end of the Trump presidency and the early months of the Biden presidency.
Author
Publisher
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
"'I alone can fix it.' So went Donald J. Trump's march to the presidency on July 21, 2016, when he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in Cleveland, promising to restore what he described as a fallen nation. Yet over the subsequent years, as he has undertaken the actual work of the commander in chief, it has been hard to see beyond the daily chaos of scandal, investigation, and constant bluster. It would be all too easy to mistake Trump's...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Twice before in its history, the United States has been faced with a crisis so severe it was forced to reinvent itself in order to survive: first, the struggle over slavery, culminating in the Civil War, and the second, the Great Depression, which led to President Roosevelt's New Deal and the establishment of America as a social-democratic state. In a sequence of essays that excavate the past while laying bare the political upheaval of 2016, Ben...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Fine artist Leah Tinari, turns her formidable and singular talents to the presidents of the United States. Each engaging portrait and the accompanying facts paint a powerful and playful picture of the presidents, introduce readers to the personable side of these leaders and make them more relatable, approachable, human, and even fun! Before these forty-four men (over forty-five presidencies; Grover Cleveland served as the twenty-second and twenty-fourth...
99) Never
Author
Language
English
Description
"Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed." So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Ken Follett's nerve-racking drams of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war...
100) Theodore Rex
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pulitzer Prize winning author Edmund Morris chronicles Theodore Roosevelt's years in the White House, including his many crisis and achievements. Morris also explores Roosevelt's family life as well taking a look at Roosevelt's political critics.
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