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Dallek, Robert.

Summary: In a reinterpretation of the postwar years, historian Robert Dallek examines what drove the leaders of the most powerful nations around the globe--Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Mao, de Gaulle, and Truman--to rely on traditional power politics despite the catastrophic violence their nations had endured. The decisions of these men, for better and often for worse, had profound consequences for...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.82 DAL

Dallek, Robert.

Summary: The plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president yet rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, Harry S. Truman clashed with Southerners over civil rights, with organized labor over the right to strike, and with General Douglas MacArthur over the conduct of the Korean War. He personified Thomas Jefferson's observation that the presidency is a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books/Henry Holt and Co. 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TRUMAN, HARRY DAL

Dallek, Robert.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 KEN

Dallek, Robert

Summary: "A one-volume biography of Roosevelt by the #1 New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, focusing on his career as an incomparable politician, uniter, and dealmaker In an era of such great national divisiveness, there could be no more timely biographyof one of our greatest presidents than one that focuses on his unparalleled political ability as a uniter and consensus-maker. While Robert...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. DAL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROOSEVELT DAL

Dallek, Robert.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 DAL

Libert, Steve

Summary: "In 1679, the French ship Le Griffon mysteriously vanished. Was it lost in a violent storm or robbed of its valuable cargo of furs and set ablaze? No one knows, but historians are quite certain the ship found its final resting place on the bottom of the Great Lakes. Now after centuries of mystery and misinformation, Steve and Kathie Libert reveal that Le Griffon likely met her final fate among...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.452 LIB

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