Krogh, Egil
Summary: "The true story of The White House Plumbers, a secret unit inside Nixon's White House, and their ill-conceived plans stop the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, and how they led to Watergate and the President's demise. In a secluded office in President Nixon's White House in 1971, Egil "Bud" Krogh was summoned to a closed-door meeting by his mentor-and a key confidant of the president-John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 KROTydings, Joseph D. (Joseph Davies)
Summary: "Gun control, voting rights, family planning, and environmental protection--these are all hot-button issues today, but they were also the same difficult and intractable issues that Senator Joseph D. Tydings of Maryland faced during his tenure in the Senate in the 1960s. In this timely memoir, Tydings looks back on a life of public service, from the Maryland General Assembly to chief federal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas A & M University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TYDINGS, JOSEPH D TYDVan Vleet, Carmella
Summary: Shares the story of renowned astronaut and distinguished scientist Kathryn Sullivan, describing how she defied the conventions of her childhood to pursue interests previously limited to boys and how she became the first woman to walk in space.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SULMike D
Summary: Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip hop superstardom. Here is their story, told for the first time in the words of the band. Adam "ADROCK" Horovitz and Michael "Mike D" Diamond offer revealing and very funny accounts of their transition from teenage punks to budding rappers; their early collaboration with Russell Simmons and Rick...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 MIKKaplan, Robert D.
Summary: "The Good American is a story about courage, intense loneliness, and the State Department's golden age during the late Cold War and post-Cold War. It is also a celebration of ground level reporting and getting a worm's eye view of crisis zones. Robert Gersony, a high-school dropout later awarded a bronze star in Vietnam, spent over four decades on the ground in virtually every war and natural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GERSONY, ROBERT KAPWert, Jeffry D.
Summary: "Before the Civil War, America had undergone a technological revolution that made large-scale industry possible, yet, except for the expanding reach of railroads and telegraph lines, the country remained largely rural, with only pockets of small manufacturing. Then the war came and woke the sleeping giant. The Civil War created a wave of unprecedented industrial growth and development,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.7 WERKristof, Nicholas D.
Summary: "From New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, and bestselling author Nicholas D. Kristof, an intimate and gripping memoir about a life in journalism Since 1984, Nicholas Kristof has worked almost continuously for The New York Times as a reporter, foreign correspondent, bureau chief, and now columnist, becoming one of the foremost reporters of his generation. Here, he recounts his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: Harris communicates a vision of shared struggle, shared purpose, and shared values while offering a master class in problem solving, in crisis management, and leadership in challenging times. In examining the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, she shows how our shared efforts will continue to sustain us and this great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HARRIS HARRothman, Joshua D.
Summary: "In The Ledger and the Chain, prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield company and the men who built it into the largest and most powerful slave trading company in the United States. In so doing, he reveals the central importance of the domestic slave trade to the development of American capitalism and the expansion of the American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, Hachette Book Group 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 ROTBrathwaite, Lisa D.
Summary: "The life work of Eunice W. Johnson, co-founder of Ebony magazine and a visionary who championed Black elegance through the Ebony Fashion Fair--a cross-country fashion show fundraiser"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books Inc. 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JOHEisenhower, John S. D.
Summary: Eisenhower offers a surprising portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman, the Civil War general whose path of destruction cut the Confederacy in two, broke the will of the Southern population, and earned him a place in history as "the first modern general." Yet behind his reputation as a fierce warrior was a sympathetic man of complex character.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SHERMAN, WILLIAM T EISWard, Geoffrey C.
Summary: An extraordinarily vivid and personal portrait of America's greatest political family and its enormous impact on our nation--the tie-in volume to the PBS documentary to air in the fall of 2014.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014