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Brinkley, Alan. Bunting, Josiah Collins, Gail. Ferrell, Robert H. Greene, John RobertSummary: This film explores Kennedy's childhood years as the privileged but sickly son of one of the wealthiest men in America, his early political career as a lackluster congressman, his successful run for the U.S. Senate, and the game-changing presidential campaign that made him the youngest elected president in U.S. history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JFKBunting, Josiah
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BUNSummary: It traces the events that led McVeigh to that day and recounts the stories of the survivors, first-responders, US Marshals, FBI investigators, and journalists who covered the events. The film provides an in-depth and provocative exploration of the white supremacist, extremist militia movement that rose to prominence in the early 1990s and still makes news today.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV OKLSummary: "They were charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute, and, at times, arrogant, vengeful, and reckless. For hundreds of years, Native American leaders from Massasoit, Tecumseh, and Tenskwatawa, to Major Ridge, Geronimo, and Fools Crow valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction of their culture. Sometimes, their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2009
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WESummary: With the rise of political parties came the dawn of political compromise: nominees who were selected not necessarily because they were the best or most obvious candidates for the presidency, but because they were less offensive to some voters than those who might have been the most apparent choices. Their primary qualification for the office often seemed not to be their positive qualities but...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. The shocking incident made national headlines and, when the police chief was acquitted by an all-white jury, the blatant injustice would change the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BLISummary: It tells the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work decoding thousands of messages for the U.S. government would send infamous gangsters to prison and bring down a massive, near-invisible Nazi spy ring in WWII. A suburban wife and mother who led a secret double life, her remarkable contributions to the science of cryptology would...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CODCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CODSummary: This program examines presidential leadership in an era of an increasingly divided government. The American presidency was conceived as a part of a larger system of institutions, and its effectiveness rests, in part, upon a good measure of cooperation among the branches. However, as revealed in the program, as our constitutional system has developed, this cooperation has broken down at crucial...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: It is often observed that American national identity is less a condition than an idea. And, as profiled in this program, no one is better positioned to express that idea than the president himself. What we have come to refer to, as “the vision thing” is an expectation that our presidents will bring to office a particularly strong sense of national mission. The four presidents chronicled is this...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: From the beginning, the presidential office has beckoned to national heroes renowned for their selfless service to their country. This affinity is especially strong for men of military fame, for the president is formally commander-in-chief as well as symbolically the steward of the national interest. The U.S. president-as-national hero exemplifies the value we all place on authenticity in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: The last thing that the founding fathers envisioned was a hereditary chief executive. After all, they had fought a war in part to rid themselves of a king. Yet power inevitably passes from generation to generation, and several families have returned to the White House as though born to it. Through interviews, historic archives and footage, this program explores the unique stories of four men,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: We forget that, in our nation's early years, taking part in political affairs was considered a duty and an honor, but not a way of life. However, in this program, we learn that it was not long before those whose lives were centered in politics, and the parties they represented, began to find their way to the White House. While the skills necessary for political success can be helpful to a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: Nearly one in five American presidents has died in office. The vice presidents who succeeded them were often chosen for the ticket less because they were equal to the most powerful office in the land than because they provided some electoral advantage. What happens when such a man takes office frequently facing widespread conviction that he is unworthy of the powers he inherits? Through...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: “The American public, from time to time, wishes to see the trustee who looks neither right nor left, but only up to the heavens and down to the work before him,” says presidential scholar Richard Neustadt. But is an independent cast of mind the best approach to the U.S. presidency? In this program, we explore the presidencies of four men who pursued a course that took little account of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: The president has no greater responsibility than representing the nation on the world stage. Securing a stable world in which American interests can be asserted and defended has been a basic part of the president's job description from the very beginning of our constitutional history. This program profiles the lives of four men as they engage in this task at some of the most critical times in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Ferrell, Robert H.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.915 FERGreene, John Robert
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.925 GREBrinkley, Alan.
Summary: Analyzes the contrast between Kennedy's achievements and his legend, tracing the successes and failures of such events as the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis while exploring the ways in which he reshaped views of the presidency.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, JOHN F BRICollins, Gail.
Summary: "The president who served the shortest term--just a single month--but whose victorious election campaign rewrote the rules for candidates seeking America's highest office"--Jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books/Henry Holt and Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY COLSummary: Uses interviews, official photos, home movies, and archival footage to explore the factors that shaped America's response to the Holocaust and asks the question "Why didn't America do more?" Looks at America's inaction through the experiences of a Jewish refugee trying to save his parents, and through documented evidence of official policy of the U.S. government.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: From the day that 14-year-old Ansel Adams first saw the transcendent beauty of the Yosemite Valley, his life was, in his words, "colored and modulated by the great earth-gesture of the Sierra.” Few American photographers have reached a wider audience than Adams, and none has had more impact on how Americans grasp the majesty of their continent. Ansel Adams, from the PBS American Experience...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: He has survived U.S. hostility, an invasion, several CIA assassination attempts and an economic embargo. His face, with its trademark beard, has become an iconic image worldwide, yet the man himself remains an enigma to all but a few. Fidel Castro, from the PBS American Experience collection, attempts to answer a singular question—what really happened in Cuba under the rule of Fidel Castro?...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005