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Kendrick, Stephen

Summary: "A history of the 1960 US presidential election with a focus on the role played by the imprisonment of Martin Luther King Jr. in the wake of an Atlanta sit-in"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.0973 KEN

Brzezinski, Matthew

Summary: The behind-the-scenes story of the fierce battles on earth that launched the superpowers into space. Khrushchev was frustrated at America's U-2 spy plane, which flew too high to be shot down. But Russia's chief rocket designer, had an answer: an artificial satellite that would orbit the earth and cross American skies at will. The launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957, stunned the world. Sputnik...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.4 BRZ

Kennedy, Robert F.

Summary: "In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Kennedy's death, an inspiring collection of his most famous speeches accompanied by commentary from notable historians and public figures. Twenty-five years after Robert Kennedy was assassinated, RFK: Collected Speeches, a celebration of Kennedy's life and legacy, was published and immediately became the standard for activists, elected officials,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 815 KEN

Oliphant, Thomas

Summary: "A behind-the-scenes, revelatory account of John F. Kennedy's wily campaign to the White House, beginning with his bold, failed attempt to win the vice presidential nomination in 1956. A young and undistinguished junior plots his way to the presidency and changes the way we nominate and elect presidents. John F. Kennedy and his young warriors invented modern presidential politics. They turned...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.922 OLI

O'Neill, William L.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 1986

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 ONE

Hitchcock, William I.

Summary: “Eisenhower’s accomplishments were enormous, and loom ever larger from the vantage point of our own tumultuous times. A former general, Ike kept the peace: he ended the Korean War, avoided a war in Vietnam, adroitly managed a potential confrontation with China, and soothed relations with the Soviet Union after Stalin’s death. He guided the Republican Party to embrace central aspects of the New...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Pres Hitchcock

Smith, Jean Edward.

Summary: A peerless biographer returns with a new life of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America's thirty-fourth president.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D SMI

Parmet, Herbert S.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Transaction Publishers 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.921 PAR

Wicker, Tom.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EIS

Wicker, Tom.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003

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