Farrell, John A. (John Aloysius)

Summary: "Ted Kennedy is a biography of one of modern America's most fascinating and consequential political figures, drawing on important new sources, by the biographer who covered Kennedy closely for many years"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, EDWARD FAR

Grinspan, Jon

Summary: "A raucous history of American democracy at its wildest--and a bold rethinking of the relationship between the people and their politics. Democracy was broken. Or that was what many Americans believed in the decades after the Civil War. Shaken by economicand technological disruption, they sought safety in aggressive, tribal partisanship. The results were the loudest, closest, most violent...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 GRI

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

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

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McCain, John

Summary: The Navy veteran and U.S. senator describes the military careers of his grandfather and father, his own experiences as a POW in Vietnam, and his political career.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9092 MCC

McCain, John

Summary: "A candid new political memoir from Senator John McCain--his most personal book in years--covering everything from 2008 up to the present."--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2018

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Kerry, John

Summary: "The senator's overview of his run for the U.S. presidency."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 KER

Lewis, John

Summary: Congressman John Lewis recounts his life, which began in rural poverty in Alabama, and included leadership of the movement to desegregate Nashville, a speech at the 1963 March on Washington, chairmanship of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and election to the U.S. Congress from Georgia in 1986. "John Lewis tells his story of struggle in the civil rights movement, or fomradeship in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998

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

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald)

Summary: A study of men who, at a risk to themselves, stood fast for their principles. Includes John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Sam Houston, Robert Taft and others.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KEN

Boehner, John

Summary: The former Speaker of the House shares candid tales from Washington, D.C.'s halls of power, offering insight into America's Republican Party and the leadership successes and failures of presidents from the past half century.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

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Glenn, John

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1999

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

McCain, John

Summary: Congressman John McCain explains how he learned about life and honor from his grandfather and father, both four-star admirals in the U.S. Navy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 McCAIN, JOHN MCC

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.9 MCC

Shaw, John

Summary: Before John F. Kennedy became a legendary young president, he was the junior senator from Massachusetts. The Senate was where JFK's presidential ambitions were born and first realized. In the first book to deal exclusively with JFK's Senate years, author John T. Shaw looks at how the young senator was able to catapult himself on the national stage. Unlike Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic leader...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2013

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Glenn, John

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 1999

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McCain, John

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Pub. 1999

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MCC

Kerry, 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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Lewis, John

Summary: "In turbulent times Americans look to the Civil Rights Movement as the apotheosis of political expression. As we confront questions of social inequality there's no better time to revisit the lessons of the '60s and no better leader to learn from than Congressman John Lewis. In Across That Bridge, Congressman Lewis draws from his experience as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement to offer...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 328.73 LEW

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Summary: Chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who would test the limits of American decency and democracy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MCC

Summary: Follows Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater's tumultuous election year, as well as other years in a career that encompassed numerous political and ideological triumphs. Though he never achieved the ultimate prize, the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 vindicated the conservative agenda Goldwater had long championed. Ironically, in later years, Goldwater's support of issues like abortion and gay...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MR.