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Summary: "How do we balance the desire for tales of exceptional accomplishment with the need for painful doses of reality? How hard do we work to remember our past or to forget it? These are some of the questions that Jonathan Scott Holloway addresses in this exploration of race memory from the dawn of the modern civil rights era to the present. Relying on social science, documentary film, dance,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 HOLCott, Nancy F
Summary: "At a time when print media reigned supreme and newspapers were legion, Dorothy Thompson, John Gunther, Vincent Sheean, and Rayna Raphaelson Prohme impulsively left their homes to reinvent themselves as international journalists and adopt the power of thepress as their own. In Fighting Words, acclaimed historian Nancy Cott follows these four largely unknown young Americans to reveal how foreign...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.922 COTCost, Jay
Summary: "How do you solve a problem like James Madison? The fourth president is one of the most confounding figures in early American history -- his political trajectory seems almost intentionally inconsistent. He was both for and against a strong federal government. He wrote about the dangers of political parties in the Federalist papers and then helped to found the Republican party just a few years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MADISON, JAMES COSCoote, Stephen.
Contents: Vienna, 1815 -- Elba, 1814 -- The flight of the eagle, 27 February-20 March 1815 -- Paris, 21 March-12 June 1815 -- Waterloo, 12-21 June 1815 -- St. Helena, 21 June 1815-5 May 1821.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DaCapo Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.27 COOBoot, Max
Summary: A biography of Edward Lansdale, the CIA operative. Boot chronicles his rise and fall as a proponent of a visionary "hearts and minds" diplomacy in Vietnam who was ultimately overruled by the American military bureaucracy, which favored bombs and troop build-ups over winning the people's trust. "The legendary Edward Lansdale (1908-1987), a covert operative so roguish that he was said to be the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANSDALE, EDWARD BOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B LANDSDALE BOOStelzer, Cita.
Summary: Describes what it was like dining at the table of Winston Churchill during World War II, discussing the good food, fine champagnes, and Cuban cigars that were served alongside arguments, diplomatic insights, and gossip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.084 STECope, Suzanne
Summary: "Two unsung Black women, Cleo Silvers and Aylene Quin, used food as a political weapon during the civil rights movement, generating influence and power so great that it brought the ire of government agents down on them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lawrence Hill Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 COPCarr, Jonathan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.0099 CARKirsch, Jonathan
Summary: Describes the life of the teenage Jewish refugee whose shooting of a Nazi diplomat was used as fodder to unleash Kristallnacht and discusses whether he was working alone, as an early resistance fighter, or as a spurned lover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 GRYNSZPAN, HERSCHEL FEIBEL KIRMiller, Jonathan
Summary: Describes the life, ideas, and accomplishments of scientist Charles Darwin, and features humorous illustrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.82 MILRapping, Jonathan
Summary: "Rapping urges us to understand that meaningful criminal justice reform requires a cultural transformation, and that public defenders, serving as the voice of impacted communities, must be at the center of this effort"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 RAPBate, Jonathan.
Summary: Bate's Soul of the Age tells the story of the great dramatist while deducing the crucial events of Shakespeare's life, connecting those events to his world and work as never before, and revealing how this unsurpassed artist came to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM BATEig, Jonathan
Summary: "The definitive biography of an American icon, from a New York Times best-selling author with unique access to Ali's inner circle. He was the wittiest, the prettiest, the strongest, the bravest, and, of course, the greatest (as he told us over and over again). Muhammad Ali was one of the twentieth century's greatest radicals and most compelling figures. At his funeral in 2016, eulogists said...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ALI EIGEig, Jonathan
Summary: "Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.--and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Summary: Recounts the Renaissance artistic competition between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to paint the legendary "lost" masterpieces "The Battle of Anghiari" and "The Battle of Cascina" on the wall of the Great Council Hall in the Palazzo Vecchio.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 JonesKarl, Jonathan
Summary: As the reporter who has known Donald Trump longer than any other White House correspondent, Karl tells the story of Trump's downfall, complete with riveting behind-the-scenes accounts of some of the darkest days in the history of the American presidency. Packed with on-the-record interviews with central figures in this drama who are telling their stories for the first time, this is a definitive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 KARKatz, Jonathan
Summary: "Historian Jonathan Ned Katz uncovers the forgotten story of radical lesbian feminist Eve Adams, and her long-lost book Lesbian Love. Jonathan Ned Katz uncovers the forgotten story of radical lesbian Eve Adams and her long-lost book Lesbian Love. Born Chawa Zloczewer into a Jewish family in Poland, Eve Adams emigrated to the United States in 1912, took a new name, befriended anarchists, sold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, EVE KATRieder, Jonathan.
Summary: Jonathan Rieder delves deeper than anyone before into the King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" --illuminating both its timeless message and its crucial position in the history of civil rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Press 2013
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Summary: Today, forty-six million Americans are bird-watchers. The Life of the Skies is a genre-bending journey into the meaning of a pursuit born out of the tangled history of industrialization and nature longing. Jonathan Rosen set out on a quest not merely to see birds but to fathom their centrality--historical and literary, spiritual and scientific--to a culture torn between the desire both to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 598.072 ROSAllen, Jonathan (Jonathan J. M.)
Summary: It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the tragic story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate, no explanation of defeat can begin with anything other than the core problem of Hillary's campaign -- the candidate herself....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 324.973 ALLLineberry, Cate.
Summary: Recounts how the passengers and crew of an American medical evacuation plane, including thirteen nurses and thirteen medics, survived after it crashed in Nazi-controlled Albania in November, 1943, until they could be rescued.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5475 LINFreeman, Sally Mott
Summary: Documents the extraordinary story of three brothers in World War II, describing the rescue mission launched by the elder two when their youngest brother was declared missing in action in the Philippines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FREAlter, Jonathan.
Summary: Jonathan Alter, one of the country's most respected journalists and historians, uses his unique access to the White House to produce the first inside look at Obama's difficult debut. In Alter's telling, the real Obama is an authentic, demanding, unsentimental, and sometimes overconfident leader.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 973.932 ALTGould, Jonathan
Summary: A cultural and musical history of the 1960s in Britain and America captures the pulse of the era through the music of the Beatles, critically analyzing why the group became a trans-Atlantic phenomenon while discussing the evolution of the group's music.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2007