Finn, Peter
Summary: The dramatic, until-now-untold story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 891.73 FINDoyle, Don Harrison
Summary: When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance-that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the United States, a beleaguered model of democracy, would indeed 'perish from the earth.' In The Cause of All Nations, distinguished...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.7 DOYMeacham, Jon
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Luxenberg, Steve
Summary: Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the nineteenth century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still felt into the twenty-first. Separate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 342.73 LUXBausum, Ann.
Summary: Ann Bausum's riveting exploration of the Stonewall riots and the national Gay Rights movement that followed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 307 BAUKudlow, Lawrence.
Summary: John F. Kennedy was the first president since the 1920s to slash tax rates across-the-board. One person who followed JFK's tax-cut growth model was Ronald Reagan. The never before told story is the link between JFK and Ronald Reagan. This is the secret history of American prosperity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 330.9 KUDBrown, Daniel James
Summary: An unforgettable chronicle of war-time America and the battlefields of Europe. Based on Daniel James Brown's extensive interviews with the families of the protagonists as well as deep archival research, it portrays the kaleidoscopic journey of four Japanese-American families and their sons, who volunteered for 442nd Regimental Combat Team and were deployed to France, Germany, and Italy, where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 940 BRODavis, Kenneth C.
Summary: "An examination of American slavery through the true stories of five enslaved people who were considered the property of some of our best-known presidents"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 920 DAVFoner, Eric
Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time. The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as American law. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 342.73 FONBrumwell, Stephen
Summary: General Benedict Arnold's failed attempt to betray the fortress of West Point to the British in 1780 stands as one of the most infamous episodes in American history. In the light of a shining record of bravery and unquestioned commitment to the Revolution, Arnold's defection came as an appalling shock. Contemporaries believed he had been corrupted by greed; historians have theorized that he had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3 BRUBradley, James
Summary: A vast history of American-Chinese relations from its missionary origins to the eve of WWII. Dark portraits of those whom conventional history has acclaimed, potent in its critique of the missionary instinct, and brilliant in its exploration of the power of myth and mirage to convince men and women and nations that destiny is on their side, this is James Bradley's most intrepid work yet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327.730 BRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327.730 BRABrown, Daniel
Summary: This is the remarkable story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from Eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 797.123 BROWare, Susan
Summary: An acclaimed historian gives voice to the thousands of women from different backgrounds, races, and religions whose local passion and protest resounded throughout the land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD-MP3 324.6 WareO'Reilly, Bill
Summary: O'Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in the United States, and expertly plumb the history of this nation₂s most notorious serial robbers, conmen, murderers, and especially, mob family bosses. Covering the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, O'Reilly and Dugard trace the prohibition-busting bank robbers of the Depression Era, such as John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.106 OREKilmeade, Brian
Summary: This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up to intimidation. When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America faced a crisis. The new nation was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack. Pirates from North...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.4 KILMcCullough, David G
Summary: Relates the story of the American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris in the nineteenth century, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920.0092 MCCKilmeade, Brian
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017