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Summary: Friedman's insights about our regressed, "seatbelt society," oriented toward safety rather than adventure, help explain the sabotage that leaders constantly face today. Suspicious of the "quick fixes" and instant solutions that sweep through our culture only to give way to the next fad, he argues for strength and self-differentiation as the marks of true leadership. His formula for success is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seabury Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.4 FRIBeck, Derek W.
Summary: Few Americans know that the Revolutionary War did not begin with the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 but over a year earlier in April 1775. Beck draws on previously unpublished documents to tell the full story of the war before American independence-from both sides.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.] 1915
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 581.652 BEABeer, Edith H.
Summary: Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite Edith's protests...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins US 2012
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Connett, P. H. (Paul H.)
Summary: Argues that the fluoridation of the American water system is both unnecessary and dangerous.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.739 CONBarbellion, W. N. P.
Summary: "Published shortly before the author's death in 1919, this remarkable memoir addresses struggles with poverty, inadequate education, and the creeping paralysis of multiple sclerosis. Yet Barbellion still manages to write with uplifting eloquence and passion of his love for family, natural history, music, and literature. Told with a thoroughly modern voice, the unjustly overlooked Journal is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BARBELLION, W.N.P. BARBrands, H. W
Summary: Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes readers from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. When Napoleon offered to sell French Louisiana, America was launched on a fateful and fraught journey west. Brands takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 BRABrands, H. W.
Summary: From bestselling historian H. W. Brands, a sweeping chronicle of how a few wealthy businessmen reshaped America from a land of small farmers and small businessmen into an industrial giant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 JACKSON, ANDREW BRABrands, H. W.
Summary: Ronald Reagan today is a conservative icon. Playing a major role in ending Communism in the Soviet Union, Reagan established himself as one of the truly great presidents of the twentieth century. Follow him from small-town Illinois through his career as an actor and finally into politics, as a California governor and then president whose pragmatic leadership and steadfast vision transformed the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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Summary: "What do moral people do when democracy countenances evil? The question, implicit in the idea that people can govern themselves, came to a head in America at the middle of the nineteenth century, in the struggle over slavery. John Brown's answer was violence--violence of a sort some in later generations would call terrorism. Brown was a deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326.8 BRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326.8 BRABrands, H. W.
Summary: The first "common man" to rise to the presidency, Jackson embodied the spirit and the vision of the emerging American nation; the term "Jacksonian democracy" is embedded in our national lexicon. Historian Brands follows Jackson from his days as rebellious youth, risking execution to free the Carolinas during the Revolutionary War, to his years as a young lawyer and congressman from the newly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Pres BrandsBrands, H. W.
Summary: "From master storyteller and historian H.W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world. When asked by a reporter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.918 BRACrocker, H. W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forum 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.73092 CROBerg, Scott W.
Summary: Placing a seminal moment in American history in the larger context of the Civil War, this account revisits the little-known Dakota War of 1862, an uprising on the Minnesota frontier which resulted in the forced relocation of the Dakota and the hanging ofthirty-eight Dakota warriors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 BERBrands, H. W.
Summary: A complete biography of the statesman and scientist, Benjamin Franklin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US BrandsBrands, H. W.
Summary: "Bestselling historian and Pulitzer-prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives and battles of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache warrior Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and the final fight for control of the American continent"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 BRABrands, H. W.
Summary: What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? George Washington in the 1770s stood at the apex of Virginia society. Benjamin Franklin was more successful still, having risen from humble origins to world fame. John Adams revered the law. Yet all three men became rebels against the British Empire that fostered their success. Others in the same circle of family and friends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 BRABrands, H. W.
Summary: From bestselling historian H. W. Brands, an incisive chronicle of the events and trends that guided--and sometimes misguided--our nation from the A-bomb to the iPhone. Ultimately Brands captures the national experience through the last six decades and reveals the still-unfolding legacy of dreams born out of a global cataclysm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 BRABrands, H. W.
Summary: An analysis of Ulysses Grant's pivotal contributions during the Civil War and his presidency covers his defense of black civil rights, his controversial willingness to sacrifice troops to win the war, and the heated criticism over his Reconstruction policies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANT, ULYSSES BRABrands, H. W.
Summary: A sweeping biography of the life and political career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt draws on archival materials, public speeches, interviews with family and colleagues, and personal correspondence to examine FDR's political leadership in a dark time of Depression and war, his championship of the poor, his revolutionary New Deal legislation, and his legacy for the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOCrocker, H. W.
Summary: "In Armstrong, the first volume in the Custer of the West series, George Armstrong Custer survived the battle at the Little Big Horn, assumed a new identity (Marshal Armstrong Armstrong) and with the help of a multilingual Indian scout, cancan dancers, Chinese acrobats, a savage dog, and a Southern cardsharp, saved the town of Bloody Gulch, Montana, from the oppression of a corrupt Indian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: Western Crocker 2021BRANDS, H. W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DOUBL 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.403 BRABrands, H. W.
Summary: In this richly detailed, panoramic saga, the acclaimed author of "The First American" brings to life the human dramas and commercial imperatives that spurred the California gold rush, and illuminates their lasting impact on the American landscape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2002