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Who was?Morley, Jefferson
Summary: "For the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in: The untold story of President Richard Nixon, CIA Director Richard Helms, and their volatile shared secrets that ended a presidency. Scorpions' Dance by intelligence expert and investigative journalist Jefferson Morley reveals the Watergate scandal in a completely new light: as the culmination of a concealed, deadly power struggle between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 MORDobbs, Michael
Summary: "From the author of the acclaimed One Minute to Midnight: a sharply focused, riveting account--told from inside the White House--of the crucial months when the Watergate conspiracy consumed itself and brought down the president"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 DOBBaron, Martin
Summary: "A monumental work of nonfiction that gives a first-row seat to the epic power struggle between politics, money, media, and tech -- for fans of Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man and Jane Mayer's Dark Money. Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in 2013, after nearly a dozen years leading The Boston Globe. Just seven months into his new job, Baron received explosive news: Jeff...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4 BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BARON BARTian
Summary: "Year of the Rabbit tells the true story of one family's desperate struggle to survive the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge seizes power in the capital city of Phnom Penh. Immediately after declaring victory in the war, they set about evacuating the country's major cities with the brutal ruthlessness and disregard for humanity that characterized the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TIALarman, Alexander
Summary: "The next volume in Alexander Larman's biographical chronicle of the Windsor family, as they go to war with Adolf Hitler--and each other. At the beginning of 1937, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated the throne, leaving his unprepared and terrified brother Bertie to become George VI, surrounded by a gaggle of courtiers and politicians...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.084 LARMendel, Iuliia
Summary: "In this frank and moving inside account, Zelenskyy's former press secretary tells the story of his improbable rise from popular comedian to the president of Ukraine. Mendel had a front row seat to many of the key events preceding the 2022 Russian invasion. From attending meetings between Zelenskyy and Putin and other European leaders, visiting the front lines in Donbas, to fielding press...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.7086 MENKrogh, 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 KROKarl, 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 KARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 KARSmith, Richard Norton
Summary: For many Americans, President Gerald Ford was the genial accident of history who controversially pardoned his Watergate-tarnished predecessor, presided over the fall of Saigon, and became a punching bag on Saturday Night Live. Yet as Richard Norton Smith reveals in a book full of surprises, Ford was an underrated leader whose tough decisions and personal decency look better with the passage of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, GERALD R. SMIFarrell, John A. (John Aloysius)
Summary: "At the end of World War II, navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returned from the Pacific and set his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now-legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon's finer attributes gave way to unapologetic ruthlessness. The story of that transformation is the stunning overture to John A. Farrell's magisterial biography of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2017
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Summary: "The definitive history of the Carter Administration from the man who participated in its surprising number of accomplishments--drawing on his extensive and never-before-seen notes. Stuart Eizenstat was at Jimmy Carter's side from his political rise in Georgia through four years in the White House, where he served as Chief Domestic Policy Adviser. He was directly involved in all domestic and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARTER, JIMMY EIZRoberts, Rebecca Boggs
Summary: "This portrait of the first acting woman president, written by a leading historian on women's suffrage and power, tracks the ascent of Edith Boling Galt Wilson, one of American history's most influential and complicated women"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILSON, EDITH ROBWoelfle, Gretchen
Summary: "Jeannette Rankin was always a take-charge girl. Whether taking care of horses or her little brothers and sisters, Jeannette knew what to do and got the job done. That's why, when she saw poor children living in bad conditions in San Francisco, she knew she had to take charge and change things. But in the early twentieth century, women like Jeannette couldn't vote to change the laws that failed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RANGoodwin, Doris Kearns
Summary: "In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.09 GOOCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.09 GOOHollway, Don
Summary: "The Last Viking tells the dramatic story of King Harald Hardrada of Norway, one of the greatest warriors to have ever lived. Drawing on original source material, Don Hollway recreates the violence and drama of the late Viking era in a gripping chronicle that transports the reader from the frozen wastelands of Scandinavia to the glittering opulence of the Byzantine empire and then finally to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Osprey Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARALD III HOLMasters, Nathan
Summary: "The riveting, forgotten narrative of the most corrupt attorney general in American history and the maverick senator who stopped at nothing to take him down. Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era's greatest political fiasco--one that resulted in a nationwide scandal, a public reckoning at the Department of Justice, the rise of J. Edgar Hoover, and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 MASKerry, John
Summary: "John Kerry tells the story of his remarkable American life--from son of a diplomat to decorated Vietnam veteran, five-term United States senator, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and secretary of state for four years--in this revealing memoir by a witness to some of the most important events of our recent history. [This book] is John Kerry's candid personal story. A Yale graduate, Kerry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KERRY, JOHN KERPorter, Katie
Summary: "An honest, inspiring, and laugh-out-loud funny memoir about re-energizing our politics and standing up to corporate America-while carting three kids around in a minivan. Never having run for office before, Katie Porter charted a new path in 2018 when she was elected to Congress as a Democrat in historically conservative Orange County, California. Underestimated as a single mom and chided for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PORTER, KATIE PORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B PORTER PORRudenko, Serhiĭ
Summary: "Three years after the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine's highest office, he found himself catapulted into the role of wartime leader. The former comedian has become the public face of his country's courageous and bloody struggle against a brutal invasion by Russia. Born to Jewish parents in central Ukraine, Zelensky campaigned for the presidency in the 2019 election...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polity Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZELENSKY, VOLODYMYR RUDUrban, Andrew L.
Summary: "Ukraine's most popular comedic actor was an unlikely president of his country. And now, even more improbably, Volodymyr Zelensky has become the world's most celebrated statesman. Who is he? How did he become the international hero of our time? Zelensky: The Unlikely Ukrainian Hero Who Defied Putin and United the World is a compelling account of this fascinating, enigmatic leader. Covering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZELENSKY, VOLODYMYR URBDevine, Miranda.
Summary: "The inside story of the laptop that exposed the president's dirtiest secret. When a drug-addled Hunter Biden abandoned his waterlogged computer at a Mac repair shop in Delaware in the spring of 2019, just six days before his father announced his candidacy for the United States presidency, it became the ticking time bomb in the shadows of Joe Biden's campaign. The dirty secrets contained in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Pol DevineLabrecque, Ellen
Summary: Provides an introduction to the life of Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2015