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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.931 ONESteel, Ronald.
Summary: "More than three decades have passed since Robert Kennedy was assassinated seeking the Democratic nomination for the presidency. During that time a powerful legend has grown around him. It decrees that he would have quickly ended the Vietnam War, violence in the cities, and racial and social injustice across the land. Millions of Americans continue to believe that legend... But would he have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, ROBERT STESummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Steel, Ronald.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 KENNEDY, ROBERT STESummary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAKBlume, Lesley M. M.
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how a courageous reporter uncovered one of greatest and deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century--the true effects of the atom bomb--potentially saving millions of lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BLUSummary: A deft politician and skillful diplomat, TR's magnetic personality and genius for publicity made him a legend in his own time. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, this is an engaging portrait of the private man and the president who created the modern American presidency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2008
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PREFritz, Ben.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 FRIMedoff, Rafael
Summary: Based on recently discovered documents, The Jews Should Keep Quiet reassesses the hows and whys behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration’s fateful policies during the Holocaust. Rafael Medoff delves into difficult truths: With FDR’s consent, the administration deliberately suppressed European immigration far below the limits set by U.S. law. His administration also refused to admit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MEDNeiman, Susan
Summary: "As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the past."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 NEIKerry, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KERRY, JOHN KERSummary: Filmmaker Michael Moore examines the current state of American politics, particularly the Donald Trump presidency and gun violence, while highlighting the power of grassroots democratic movements. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Briarcliff Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FAHSummary: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein's three-part, six-hour documentary series examines how the American people and leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged America's identity as a nation of immigrants and the very ideals of democracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV USAbzug, Robert H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 ABZWeir, Alison
Summary: "Packed with incredible true stories and legendary medieval intrigue, this epic narrative history chronicles the first five queens from the powerful royal family that ruled England and France for over three hundred years. This remarkable recreation of the action-packed century that saw the murder of Thomas Becket and the signing of the Magna Carta covers the lives and reigns of the first five...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 WEICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEIKruse, Kevin Michael
Summary: "We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the idea of 'Christian America' is an invention--and a relatively recent one at that. As Kruse argues, the belief that America is fundamentally and formally a Christian nation originated in the 1930s when businessmen enlisted religious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 KRUZiegler, Mary
Summary: "Over its half-century of public life, Roe v. Wade took on meanings that extended far beyond its original purpose of protecting the privacy of the doctor-patient relationship. At various times, it forced us to confront hard questions about judicial activism and restraint, the believability of science, racial justice, the suppression of religion, and much more. Mary Ziegler explores the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1988 ZIEZaitchik, Alexander
Summary: "A grippingly intimate and heart-breaking portrait of the walking wounded who make up the base of the Trump movement. Desperate and angry, these are the men and women of the vanishing industrial heartland and the depressed Appalachian coal country and the drug-running, no-man's land along the Southwestern borderlands. They have no illusions about the grandstanding billionaire and his glaring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hot Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 ZAISummary: Second in a three--part series in which acclaimed documentary filmmakers present ten pivotal moments in American history and their often unforeseen repercussions. This segment of three documentary films records events at the beginning of the 20th century. The Homestead Strike on July 6, 1892 was the result of harsh working conditions at Carnegie's Homestead steel mill, a battle between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Channel 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TEN V2Gibson, John
Summary: Bestselling author John Gibson shows that George W. Bush was the victim of a concentrated effort by Democrats and their allies in the press to discredit and distort virtually everything he did. That effort was amazingly successful.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 GIBSammon, Bill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regan Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 SAMFonstad, Karen Wynn.
Summary: Find your way through every part of Tolkien's great creation from Middle-Earth to the undying lands of the west. Completely revised, Karen Wynn Fonstad's The Atlas of Middle-Earth is an indispensable volume that will enchant all Tolkien fans. Here is the essential guide to the geography of Middle-Earth from its founding in the Elder Days through the Third Age, re-creating the journeys of Bilbo,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 FONSummary: Innovation enabled the United States to take on the mantle of world leadership-most importantly, innovation in military technology. But among the great minds that drove American innovation, using science to make war sometimes led to questions, dilemmas, and even second thoughts. In this program, Bill Moyers presents a profile of I. I. Rabi, winner of the 1944 Nobel Prize in physics and an early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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King, Thomas
Summary: "In The Truth About Stories, Native novelist and scholar Thomas King explores how stories shape who we are and how we understand and interact with other people. From creation stories to personal experiences, historical anecdotes to social injustices, racist propaganda to works of contemporary Native literature, King probes Native culture's deep ties to storytelling." "Thomas King weaves events...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2004