Tydings, 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 TYDKirkpatrick, David D.
Summary: A candid narrative of how and why the Arab Spring sparked, then failed, and the truth about America's role in that failure and the subsequent military coup that put Sisi in power--from the Middle East correspondent of the New York Times. In 2011, Egyptians of all sects, ages, and social classes shook off millennia of autocracy, then elected a Muslim Brotherhood president. The 2013 military coup...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 962 KIRKaplan, Robert D.
Summary: "The Greater Middle East, the vast region between the Mediterranean and China encompassing much of the Arab world, parts of northern Africa, and Asia, existed for millennia as the crossroads of empire: Macedonian, Mongol, Ottoman, Russian, British. But with the dissolution of empires in the twentieth century, postcolonial states have struggled to maintain stability in the face of power...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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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 HARSummary: 17th century Britain was a hotbed of revolution, treachery and court intrigue. Oliver Cromwell, the fiery ambitious commoner took on the monarchy and changed the course of Western civilization. He and King Charles I fought for absolute rule.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CROSummary: After the death of her husband, Claire Underwood becomes the first female President of the United States, but faces formidable threats to her legacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUKrogh, 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 KROFriend, Stephen
Summary: A suspended special agent explains his decision to turn whistleblower and expose FBI politicization and abuse against conservative America. Stephen Friend had his dream job as an FBI special agent. After nearly a decade of combating violent crime, human trafficking, and child predators, he was reassigned to the FBI's unprecedented investigation of the political unrest at the United States...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2023