Harris, Duchess

Summary: Modern presidents face resistance from a split nation. Political Resistance in the Current Age covers movements that resisted recent presidential administrations from George W. Bush to Donald Trump, what inspired the movements, and the change they brought about. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J909.83 HAR

Jones, Van

Summary: President Obama's former Green Jobs czar discusses his time in governemnt and sets forth his own manifesto for restoring the American Dream on behalf of all working Americans, with proposals for creating jobs and equal economic opportunity.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 JON

Meacham, Jon

Summary: "John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement, Meacham writes of how the activist and leader was inspired by the Bible, his mother's unbreakable spirit, his sharecropper father's tireless...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

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

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEWIS, JOHN MEA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B LEWIS MEA