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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 BUSH, BARBARA BUSCohen, Jared
Summary: From the Founding to today, this book tells the stories of seven former presidents who each changed history and offered lessons about how to decide what to do in the next chapter of life as they handled human problems of ego, finances and questions about their legacy and mortality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 COHShaffer, Jody Jensen
Summary: Briefly examines the childhood, education, adulthood, and presidency of the first African-American president in U.S. history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 OBARumsch, BreAnn
Summary: This biography introduces readers to Grover Cleveland including his early political career and key events from Cleveland's administration including the Presidential Succession Act and the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library an imprint of ABDO Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CLERumsch, BreAnn
Summary: This biography introduces readers to Herbert Hoover including his early career as a geology engineer, his early political career and key events from Hoover's administration including the Great Depression. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library an imprint of ABDO Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HOORumsch, BreAnn
Summary: This biography introduces readers to Rutherford B. Hayes including his early political career and key events from Hayes's administration including civil service reforms, the end of Reconstruction, and the passage of the Bland-Allison Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information....
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HAYGunderson, Megan
Summary: This biography introduces readers to Andrew Johnson including his career as a tailor, early political career, and key events from Johnson's administration including Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act, the Fourteenth Amendment, and his impeachment by the House of Representatives. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library an imprint of ABDO Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JOHGunderson, Megan
Summary: This biography introduces readers to Benjamin Harrison including his early political career and key events from Harrison's administration including the Sherman Silver Purchase Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library an imprint of ABDO Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HARElston, Heidi M. D.
Summary: This biography introduces readers to Millard Fillmore including his early political career and key events from Fillmore's administration including the Compromise of 1850 and the Treaty of Kanagawa. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library an imprint of ABDO Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FILRoberts, Rebecca Boggs
Summary: "This portrait of the first acting woman president, written by a leading historian on women's suffrage and power, tracks the ascent of Edith Boling Galt Wilson, one of American history's most influential and complicated women"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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Summary: This biography introduces readers to Barack Obama including his early political career and key events from Obama's administration including the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Affordable Care Act, and the Clean Power Plan. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library an imprint of ABDO Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 OBAGunderson, Megan
Summary: This biography introduces young readers to the life of John Tyler including his military service, early political career, and key events from Tyler's administration including his opposition to the national bank, Second Seminole War, and the Webster-Ashburton Treaty. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library an imprint of ABDO Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TYLHutchinson, Cassidy
Summary: "Cassidy Hutchinson's desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history. Now, she provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where she risked everything to tell the truth about some of the most powerful people in Washington"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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Summary: A former Secret Service agent recounts his shared experiences with the former First Lady before and after her husband's death, discussing the birth of John, Jr., and Jackie's first encounters with Aristotle Onassis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HILL, CLINT HILBurgan, Michael.
Summary: An introduction to the life and death of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States. Discusses his powerful political family, the key events and policy of his presidency, his medical problems and personal life, and his assassination and the intrigue that still surrounds the event.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Heinemann Library 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KENRiley, Russell L. (Russell Lynn)
Summary: "In the decade after Bill Clinton left the White House, scores of his closest aides recorded interviews with the University of Virginia's Presidential Oral History Program. The contents of these interviews are published for the first time in this volume.Based on 400 hours of candid conversations, Inside the Clinton White House adds color and nuance to our understanding of Bill Clinton and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 RILBecker, Jean
Summary: "As chief of staff, Jean Becker had a ringside seat to the never-boring story of George Herbert Walker Bush's life post-presidency, including being at his side when he died and subsequently facing the challenge-and great honor-of being in charge of his state funeral. Full of heart and wisdom, THE MAN I KNEW is a vibrant behind-the-scenes look into the ups and downs of heading up the office of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUSH, GEORGE H.W. BECCollison, Campbell
Summary: "Abraham Lincoln wore size 14 shoes, Thomas Jefferson spoke 6 different languages, and Barack Obama converted the White House tennis courts to a basketball court. Dive into all the extreme facts you never know about the presidents of the United States in this zany book"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.09 COLRenbourn, John.
Contents: Goodbye pork pie hat--The hermit--White House blues--The wildest pig in captivity--Country blues--Train tune--Can't keep from crying--After the dance--Lord Franklin--Sweet potato--beth's blues--Winter is gone--I know my babe--Kokomo blues--The cuckoo--Faro's rag--Wiill the circle be unbroken?--Nobody's fault but mine--Sally go round the roses--Debbie Anne--Piano tune--So clear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sanctuary Records,. 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK RENLandis, Paul
Summary: "Special Agent Paul Landis is in the follow-up car directly behind JFK's and is at the president's limo as soon as it stops at Parkland Memorial Hospital. He is inside Trauma Room #1, where the president is pronounced dead. He is on Air Force One with the president's casket on the flight back to Washington, DC; an eyewitness to Lyndon Johnson taking the oath of office. What he saw is indelibly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.922 LANWilson, Emily Herring
Summary: The Three Graces of Val-Kill changes the way we think about Eleanor Roosevelt. Emily Wilson examines what she calls the most formative period in Roosevelt's life, from 1922 to 1936, when she cultivated an intimate friendship with Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook, who helped her build a cottage on the Val-Kill Creek in Hyde Park on the Roosevelt family land. In the early years, the three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WILBaldacci, David.
Summary: A bomb detonates in the White House immediately after the British Prime Minister departs from the State Dinner. Oliver Stone, who witnesses the event, believes the Prime Minister and the President were the targets of a terrorist plot. MI-5 agent Mary Chapman is assigned to assist the Stone and his Camel Club with the investigation, which reveals that the bombing may have actually been botched...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALSummary: After working as a White House communications director for the president of the United States, Olivia Pope sets up her own crisis management firm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SCAGessen, Masha
Summary: Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most powerful man in Russia" by the Wall Street Journal, award-winning journalist Masha Gessen is unparalleled in her understanding of the events and forces that have wracked her native country in recent times. In The Future Is History, she follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each came of age with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017