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Summary: "Joe Biden was elected president in 2020. His supporters saw their candidate's ultimate victory as a triumph for their vision of America. Few political leaders in American history have had as long a career in politics and government as Biden"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 BIDChavez, Linda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAPhillips, Kevin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.928 PHIFrank, Barney
Summary: Growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, the fourteen-year-old Barney Frank made two vital discoveries about himself: he was attracted to government, and to men. He resolved to make a career out of the first attraction and to keep the second a secret. Now, fifty years later, his sexual orientation is widely accepted, while his belief in government is embattled. Frank: A Life in Politics from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC FRAHansen, Grace
Summary: This title will introduce little readers to the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Kids 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BIDEN HANRose, Rachel
Summary: "Long-serving congressman, Vice President, and now President. Joe Biden's journey to the highest position in the land has been long and winding. As a child, he didn't let his stutter stop him from success; as a senator, he carried on despite personal heartbreak; and now, as president, we'll see all this man can do. Learn about the spectacular life of America's 46th president"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BIDMeacham, Jon
Summary: "The lavishly illustrated The Call to Serve is an intimate, illuminating portrait of the 41st U. S. President, a man many know mainly through his politics. Jon Meacham brings the leader vividly to life, including as a man dedicated to political and moral leadership, and to a life marked by the strong values of integrity and respect for others that Bush learned during his childhood. Bush pursued...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 SchroWilliams, Marjorie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.3 WILHummer, Jill Abraham
Summary: "This book is a history of first ladies beginning with Lou Henry Hoover and ending with Michelle Obama, discussing how they defined their role with a focus on how they related to women's issues and how they participated in politics. Hummer explores the intersection of personality and the first ladies' personal ambition and relationship with their presidential spouse, with the social and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320 HUMBarr, William Pelham
Summary: "William Barr's first tenure as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush was largely the result of chance, while his second tenure under President Donald Trump a deliberate and difficult choice. In this candid memoir, Barr takes readers behind the scenes during seminal moments of the 1990s, from the LA riots to Pan Am 103 and Iran Contra. Thirty years later, Barr faced an unrelenting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BARR, WILLIAM PELHAM BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BARR BARBaker, James Addison
Summary: A memoir by the former Secretary of State and White House Chief of Staff describes his experiences during his thirty-five-year career in politics, discussing the Iran-Contra scandal, the Reagan assassination attempt, and other important events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAKDeFrank, Thomas M.
Summary: In an series of private interviews, conducted over sixteen years with the stipulation that they not be released until after his death, the 38th President of the United States reveals a profoundly different side of himself: funny, reflective, gossipy, strikingly candid. In 1974, journalist DeFrank, then a young correspondent for Newsweek, was interviewing Vice President Gerald R. Ford when Ford...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, GERALD DEFCheney, Richard B.
Summary: "In his unmistakable voice and with an insider's eye on history, former Vice President Dick Cheney tells the story of his life and the nearly four decades he has spent at the center of American politics and power"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 CHECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHENEY, RICHARD B CHEStevens, Stuart
Summary: "An indictment of the Republican Party from one of the most successful Republican political operative of his generation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.2734 STEOsnos, Evan
Summary: "Illuminates Biden's long and eventful career in the Senate, his eight years as Obama's vice president, his sojourn in the political wilderness after being passed over for Hillary Clinton in 2016, his decision to challenge Donald Trump for the presidency,and his choice of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. Osnos ponders the difficulties Biden will face if elected and weighs how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier)
Summary: "Reveals the late historian's unvarnished views on the great issues and personalities of his time, from the dawn of the Cold War to the aftermath of September 11"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 SCHGabler, Neal
Summary: "From the author of Catching the Wind, called "one of the truly great biographies of our time," comes the second volume of the epic, definitive biography of Ted Kennedy-in which America's tectonic shift toward conservatism leaves Kennedy the lone powerful voice in the fight to advance protection for the poor and working-class. In Against the Wind, Ted Kennedy enters 1975 no longer in his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, EDWARD GABBaker, Russ
Summary: The long-hidden story of a family we thought we knew--and of a power-making apparatus that we have barely begun to comprehend. George W. Bush left office as one of the most unpopular presidents in American history. Russ Baker asks the question that lingers even as this benighted administration winds down: Who really wanted this man at the helm, and why did his backers promote him despite his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 BAKTaraborrelli, J. Randy
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling celebrity biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli comes Grace & Steel, the epic, hidden history of the exceptional women behind the greatest political dynasty of all time-the Bush family. Bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrellireveals the unsung heroines of the inimitable Bush family dynasty: not only First Ladies Barbara and Laura, but other colorful women whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TARMoyers, Bill D.
Summary: From Moyer's third PBS series, this text represents an unparalleled entree into the debates, the intellectual and cultural currents, and above all the fascinating people that have so powerfully shaped modern times.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 MOYFarrell, John A. (John Aloysius)
Summary: "Ted Kennedy is a biography of one of modern America's most fascinating and consequential political figures, drawing on important new sources, by the biographer who covered Kennedy closely for many years"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, EDWARD FARGabler, Neal
Summary: "The epic, definitive biography of Ted Kennedy--an immersive journey through the life of a complicated man and a sweeping history of the fall of liberalism and the collapse of political morality. Edward M. Kennedy was never expected to succeed. The youngest of nine, he lacked his brothers' natural gifts and easy grace. Yet after winning election to the Senate at the tender age of thirty, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, EDWARD M. GABJeffries, Donald
Summary: Examines what the author sees as "the amount of effort over the past fifty years that our government has dedicated to lying and covering up the truth to the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2014