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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 LABSimpson, Glenn R.
Summary: Fusion GPS was founded in 2010 by Simpson and Fritsch, two former reporters at The Wall Street Journal, decided to use their reporting skills to conduct open-source investigations for businesses and law firms-- and opposition research for political candidates. In the fall of 2015 they were hired to look into the finances of Donald Trump. The deeper Fusion dug, the clearer it became that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 SIMWilliams, Marjorie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.3 WILBryant, Howard
Summary: "Full Dissidence is a collection of essays focusing on the corporate assault on civil liberties, collisions of race and identity, and the kleptocracy of the Trump White House has forced America to ask itself if its beliefs of freedom and democracy are more than just words"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 BRYRohde, David W.
Summary: A two- time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's eye-opening investigation of the so-called deep state. A recent poll found that 74 percent of Americans believe that a group of unelected government and military officials is secretly manipulating or directing national policy. But does an American deep state really exist? This sweeping exploration of the intelligence community and FBI scandals of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 364.1 ROHGehl, Katherine M.
Summary: "Our political system has become big business--and business is booming--yet solutions to big problems seem impossible. Behold, the political-industrial complex. Rampant lobbying and gerrymandering. Election spending rising exponentially with each cycle. The Democratic and Republican parties competing furiously against each other for advantage, while together--as a duopoly--having a lock on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business Review Press 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 324.0973 GEHTaibbi, Matt.
Summary: An investigation of financial, political, and media power in the United States, looking at what the author sees as a complete transfer of control in the first decade of the twenty-first century from a democracy to the self-interested elite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & grau trade paperbacks 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.099 OSGRhodes, Benjamin
Summary: "In 2017, as Ben Rhodes was helping former president Barack Obama begin his next chapter, the legacy they worked to build for eight years was being taken apart. To understand what was happening in his own country, Rhodes decided to look outward, at the wider world. Over the next three years, he traveled to dozens of countries, meeting with politicians, dissidents, and activists confronting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.83 RHOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 909.83 RHOCruz, Ted
Summary: "The left has corrupted the U.S. legal system. Wielding the law as a weapon, arrogant judges and lawless prosecutors are intimidating, silencing, and even imprisoning Americans who stand in the way of their radical agenda. Their "enemies list" even includes parents who dare to speak up for their children at school board meetings. In this shocking new book, Senator Ted Cruz takes readers inside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 349.73 CRUGolway, Terry
Summary: A journalist, historian, and expert on the Irish American experience tackles the common stereotypes and presents a revisionist version of the notoriously crooked Tammany Hall, describing the crucial social reforms and labor improvements they contributed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.704 GOLNewman, Dan (Dan G.)
Summary: Takes readers behind the scenes--from the sweaty cubicles where senators dial corporate CEOs for dollars, to lavish retreats where billionaires boost their favored candidates, to the map rooms where lawmakers scheme to handpick their voters. It highlights the heroic efforts of those unrigging the system to return power to We the People. -- adapted from back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NEWHarding, Luke
Summary: "December 2016. [the author] and former Moscow bureau chief, quietly meets former MI6 officer Christopher Steele in a London pub to discuss President-elect Donald Trump's Russia connections. A month later, Steele's now-famous dossier sparks what may be the biggest scandal of the modern era. The names of the Americans involved are well-known--Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Jared Kushner, George...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324 HARMasters, Nathan
Summary: "The riveting, forgotten narrative of the most corrupt attorney general in American history and the maverick senator who stopped at nothing to take him down. Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era's greatest political fiasco--one that resulted in a nationwide scandal, a public reckoning at the Department of Justice, the rise of J. Edgar Hoover, and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 MASDevine, Miranda.
Summary: "The inside story of the laptop that exposed the president's dirtiest secret. When a drug-addled Hunter Biden abandoned his waterlogged computer at a Mac repair shop in Delaware in the spring of 2019, just six days before his father announced his candidacy for the United States presidency, it became the ticking time bomb in the shadows of Joe Biden's campaign. The dirty secrets contained in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.934 DEVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Pol DevineIsikoff, Michael
Summary: "In Find Me the Votes, two years of immersive reporting by Isikoff and Klaidman has produced the most authoritative and dramatic account yet of a defeated president's conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election and how a local Georgia prosecutor--a daughter of the civil rights movement--decided to indict him and his allies for his desperate attempt to hold on to power. From the beginning, Fani...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve, Hachette Book Group 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Volume 1 begins with a look at two of the many crises faced by George Washington during his term as America's first president. At a time when any conflict had the potential to dissolve the fragile union, Washington surrounded himself with brilliant men who were bound by their undying devotion to America, but who were often bitterly divided about how best to serve their common cause. Volume 2...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FOUGraff, Garrett M.
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky, the first definitive narrative history of Watergate, exploring the full scope of the scandal through the politicians, investigators, journalists, and informants who made it the most influential political event of our modern era."--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 GRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 GRAPhillips, Kevin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.928 PHIBongino, Dan
Summary: Using FBI documents, Bongino unspools a complex sequence of corruption behind desperate multimillion-dollar plans to stop Trump's re-election. He reveals the outrageous actions of Robert Mueller's investigators, delves into the disturbing presence of Obama's fixer, and shows that the case against Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was stoked by a Flynn-fixated paid operative. In the final chapter, Bongino...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2020
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Summary: A Newsday alum and PEN/Hemingway honoree tells the full story of U.S. Representative George Santos, a charlatan and con-artist who has embedded himself in our nation's capital.
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers, Atria, an imprint of Simon and Schuster 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SANTOS, GEORGE CHIIsikoff, Michael.
Summary: Written by veteran journalists, this is the inside story of how President Bush took the nation to war using faulty and fraudulent intelligence. It takes us behind the scenes at the Bush White House, the CIA, the Pentagon, the State Department, and Congress to answer all the vital questions about how the Bush administration came to invade Iraq. Filled with new revelations, Hubris is a narrative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 ISIRohde, David W.
Summary: "A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's investigation of the "deep state." Three-quarters of Americans believe that a group of unelected government and military officials secretly manipulate or direct national policy in the United States. President Trump blames the "deep state" for his impeachment. But what is the American "deep state" and does it really exist? To conservatives, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 ROHFulsom, Don
Summary: Unbeknownst to most people even now, the election of 1968 placed the patron saint of the Mafia in the White House. In other words, Richard Nixon would go on to not only lead a criminal presidency; he would be totally indebted to our nation's top mobsters. By 1969, thanks in large part to his long-time campaign manager and political advisor Murray Chotiner, a lawyer who specialized in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2017