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Peters, Charles

Summary: Documents the 36th president's term in office and the legacy of his achievements, revealing the insights he gained while serving in the Senate and throughout the Kennedy-Johnson administration and discussing how factors including the Vietnam War drove him from office.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, LYNDON B PET

Peters, Charles

Summary: There were four strong contenders when the Republican Party met in June of 1940 to nominate its candidate: the crusading young attorney and rising Republican star Tom Dewey, two solid members of the Republican establishment, and dark horse Wendell Willkie, utilities executive, favorite of the literati and only very recently even a Republican. The leading candidates campaigned as isolationists....

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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 PET

Hubbard, Bela

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Publisher / Publication Date: Northern Michigan University Press 1983

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 PET

Geter, Hafizah

Summary: "Hafizah Augustus Geter disrupts the myths of America's origins and contemporary America through her experiences as the queer Nigerian-born daughter of a Muslim Nigerian woman and a Black American man from a Southern Baptist family in Jim Crow Alabama. A unique combination of gripping memoir and Afrofuturist thought, The Black Period follows Hafizah on a journey that tells her at every turn...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022

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Person, Charles

Summary: "A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward--written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers. At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil RightsMovement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans. This purposeful mix of black and white, male and female...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PERSON, CHARLES PER

Peres, Shimon

Summary: A portrait of Israel's first prime minister covers his support of the United Nations 1947 Partition Plan for Palestine, his granting of first exemptions to Orthodox military servicepeople, and his peaceful overtures toward post-Holocaust Germany.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nextbook/Schocken 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9405 BEN-GURION, DAVID PER

Lefer, David.

Summary: Provides an insightful and gripping account of the birth of modern American conservatism and its impact on the earliest days of our nation.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 LEF

Pettersson, Jan-Erik.

Summary: "Stieg Larsson's former publisher reveals the real man behind the mega-bestselling Millennium Trilogy--a man who fought heroically for human rights, and who brought that same political and moral passion to his writing. Until the trilogy's posthumous publication, Larsson was best known for his devotion to left-wing causes and as a tireless anti-fascist activist. Horrified by the rise of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LARSSON, STIEG PET

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