Harris, Kamala D.

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 Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAR

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRIS, KAMALA D HAR

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Didion, Joan.

Summary: The essayist explores American ideals of independence and self-reliance by probing her own life and those of her relatives, discussing how the character of California's settlers created the state as it exists today.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003

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Linklater, Andro.

Summary: Linklater's fascinating, provocative and eye-opening story of why America has ended up with its unique system of weights and measures, is explained in this volume that also shows how it has shaped the culture and country.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2002

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Linklater, Andro.

Summary: Historian Linklater relates how the borders and boundaries that formed states and a nation inspired the sense of identity that has ever since been central to the American experiment. Linklater opens with America's greatest surveyor, Andrew Ellicott, measuring the contentious boundary between Pennsylvania and Virginia in the summer of 1784; and he ends standing at the yellow line dividing the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2007

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Kaplan, Robert D.

Summary: "As a boy, Robert Kaplan recalls his father driving trucks across the country to earn a living for his family, a man who witnessed and understood America from a ground-level perspective. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation and understanding of American geography that is often lost in the jet age. Along the way, he witnesses both...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017

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