Fulsom, Don

Summary: Unbeknownst to most people even now, the election of 1968 placed the patron saint of the Mafia in the White House. In other words, Richard Nixon would go on to not only lead a criminal presidency; he would be totally indebted to our nation's top mobsters. By 1969, thanks in large part to his long-time campaign manager and political advisor Murray Chotiner, a lawyer who specialized in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2017

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Adams, Henry

Contents: Contains the first two parts of History of the United States of America during the first administration of Thomas Jefferson, and History of the United States of America during the second administration of Thomas Jefferson.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1986

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Adams, Henry

Contents: Contains the last two parts of History of the United States of America during the first administration of James Madison, and History of the United States of America during the second administration of James Madison.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1986

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Farrell, John A. (John Aloysius)

Summary: "At the end of World War II, navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returned from the Pacific and set his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now-legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon's finer attributes gave way to unapologetic ruthlessness. The story of that transformation is the stunning overture to John A. Farrell's magisterial biography of the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2017

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Dean, John W. (John Wesley)

Summary: "Former White House Counsel John W. Dean, one of the last major surviving figures of Watergate, draws on his own transcripts of almost a thousand conversations, a wealth of Nixon's secretly recorded information, and more than 150,000 pages of documents in the National Archives and the Nixon Library to provide the definitive answer to the question: what did President Nixon know and when did he...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Death and Vanilla (Musical group)

Contents: Rituals -- Dreams of sheep -- Cul-de-sac -- Somnambulists -- The unseeing eye -- From elsewhere -- Library goblin -- The clearing -- The unseeing I.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Fire Records 2016

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Case, Anne

Summary: "This book documents the decline of white-working class lives over the last half-century and examines the social and economic forces that have slowly made these lives more difficult. Case and Deaton argue that market and political power in the United States have moved away from labor towards capital-as unions have weakened and politics have become more favorable to business, corporations have...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2020

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Frank, Robert

Summary: An educational psychologist and family therapist draws on his own experiences as a dyslexic to help parents understand their own dyslexic child and their fears, frustrations, and goals.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2002

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Kalman, Laura

Summary: "The Warren Court of the 1950s and 1960s was the most liberal in American history. Yet within a few short years, new appointments redirected the Court in a more conservative direction, a trend that continued for decades. However, even after Warren retired and the makeup of the court changed, his Court cast a shadow that extends to our own era. In The Long Reach of the Sixties, Laura Kalman...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017

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Kelly, Suzanne

Summary: "We once disposed of our dead in earth-friendly ways--no chemicals, biodegradable containers, dust to dust. But over the last 150 years death care has become a toxic, polluting, and alienating industry in the United States. Today, people are slowly waking up to the possibility of more sustainable and less disaffecting death care, reclaiming old practices in new ways, in a new age. Greening...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2015

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Skogen, Jennifer

Summary: "After an unthinkable tragedy on Halloween, Jackson must decide if he should stay in Grey Hills, or pack up everything and leave with Sam and the others. ... When Jackson starts sleepwalking and hearing voices, he isn't sure if he is going crazy, or if he has inherited an unspeakable power. Meanwhile, Claire is determined to find out exactly what happened on Halloween, which brings Jackson...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Winter, Jane Kohen

Summary: "Did you know that Chile is the closest country in the world to Antarctica? Readers discover this and many more fun facts about this South American nation as they explore its history, current events, and culture. The comprehensive, thoroughly updated main text is paired with fun fact boxes and sidebars that expand on important topics, including the curriculum concept of global citizenship. In...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2023

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Franklin, Ariana

Summary: Allie, the daughter of Adelia Aguilar and a skilled healer with her mother's knowledge of anatomy and sleuthing, is dispatched to the Cambridgeshire village of Ely, where her courtship with a young aristocrat is complicated by her investigation into the disappearances of several local girls.

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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WPA Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in Southern California

Summary: Describes a pivotal moment in Los Angeles history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and associations--and the mystique--for which the City of Angels is still known. Los Angeles in the 1930s a guide to the contemporary culture, with a brief L.A. history, revisiting the Spanish colonial period, the Mexican period, the brief...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2011

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Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Michigan

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford university press 1941

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Mannix, Kathryn

Summary: A palliative care physician draws on stories from her own practice to explain how to enable a gentle and peaceful death and how modern medicine, augmented by traditional palliative approaches, can restore dignity, humanity, and meaning to the end of life.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

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Summary: "The famous--and infamous--Nixon White House tapes that reveal for the first time President Richard Nixon uncensored, unfiltered, and in his own words. [His] voice-activated taping system captured every word spoken in the Oval Office, Cabinet Room, and other key locations in the White House, and at Camp David--3,700 hours of recordings between 1971 and 1973. Yet less than 5 percent of those...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Heller, Anne Conover.

Summary: A comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century--from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2009

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