Summary: The showfollows Meyer and her staff as they attempt to make their mark and leave a lasting legacy, without getting tripped up in the day-to-day political games that define Washington.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VEESummary: Julia Louis-Dreyfus returns for a second season in her Emmy winning role as Vice President Selina Meyer in VEEP. As midterm elections loom, Vice President Meyer is scoring higher ratings than the President in several popularity polls, which she hopes will boost her influence and help her curry favor with the chief executive. But despite her best intentions, even the most banal actions can set...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VEESummary: The show follows Meyer and her staff as they attempt to make their mark and leave a lasting legacy, without getting tripped up in the day-to-day political games that define Washington.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VEEChavez, Linda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHASandford, John
Summary: The daughter of a US Senator is monitoring her social media presence when she finds a picture of herself on a strange blog. And there are other pictures of the children of other influential Washington politicians, walking or standing outside their schools, each identified by name. Surrounding the photos are texts of vicious political rants from a motley variety of extremist groups. The...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SANCurrie, Stephen
Summary: "Joe Biden was elected president in 2020. His supporters saw their candidate's ultimate victory as a triumph for their vision of America. Few political leaders in American history have had as long a career in politics and government as Biden"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 BIDCurwood, Anastasia Carol
Summary: "Shaking up New York and national politics by becoming the first African American congresswoman and, later, the first Black major-party presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm left an indelible mark as an 'unbought and unbossed' firebrand and a leader in politics for meaningful change. Anastasia C. Curwood interweaves Chisholm's public image, political commitments, and private experiences to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2023
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Summary: General Omar Bradley said of him, "I have never known a braver man or a more devoted soldier." But for much of his life, Theodore Roosevelt's son Ted seemed born to live in his father's shadow. With the same wide smile, winning charm, and vigorous demeanor, Ted possessed limitless potential, with even the White House within his reach. In the First World War, Ted braved gunfire and gas attacks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ROOSEVELT, THEODORE BRASummary: Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUSummary: They've always been a great team. But now, Frank and Claire become even greater adversaries as their marriage stumbles and their ambitions are at odds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUSummary: After the death of her husband, Claire Underwood becomes the first female President of the United States, but faces formidable threats to her legacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUKlein, Edward
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 KENNEDY FAMILY KleinMoscatello, Caitlin.
Summary: "From an award-winning journalist covering gender and politics comes an inside look at the female candidates fighting back and winning elections in the crucial 2018 midterms. Beyond the 2018 victories, Moscatello speaks with leaders of organizations training female candidates, researchers, and successful strategists who helped women triumph--emphasizing authenticity and passion. After November...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.082 MOSSummary: Season three begins with Selina, eying a promotion, courting Iowa caucus voters at a signing for her new book, 'Some new beginnings.' Soon, Selina and her staff, are back in D.C. for Mike's wedding, learn that Secretary of Defense Maddox is resigning; setting Selina up for a possible run in the presidential primaries against Maddox and her nemesis, war-vet Danny Chung.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VEESummary: Former Senator Selina Meyer was a charismatic leader and a rising star in her party with her eye on the White House, then she became Vice President. VEEP follows the whirlwind day-to day existence of Vice President Meyer as she puts out political fires, juggles a busy public schedule and demanding private life, and defends the President's interests, even as she tries to improve her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VEESummary: A satirical comedy in which a British documentary crew follows a radical folksinger (and self-made millionaire) turned senatorial candidate as he blends singing, music videos and scandal on the campaign trail.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BOBShogan, Colleen J.
Summary: Life is good for Kit Marshall. She's a staffer in D.C. for a popular senator, and she lives with an adoring beagle and a brainy boyfriend with a trust fund. Then, one morning, Kit arrives at the office early and finds her boss, Senator Langsford, impaled by a stainless steel replica of an Army attack helicopter. Panicked, she pulls the weapon out of his chest and instantly becomes the prime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHOSummary: The show follows Meyer and her staff as they attempt to make their mark and leave a lasting legacy, without getting tripped up in the day-to-day political games that define Washington.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VEEInskeep, Steve
Summary: "Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple John Frémont grew up amid family tragedy and shame. Born out of wedlock in 1813, he went to work at age thirteen to help support his family in Charleston, South...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 INSAdero, Malaika
Summary: "When Kamala Harris became vice president of the United States, she made history as the first woman, first Black person, first South Asian American, and first Caribbean American to hold the office. This stunning book covers Harris's life from her childhood in Berkeley to her Howard College years, charting the many firsts she has carried with her throughout her legal and senatorial careers. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRIS, KAMALA ADEPompeo, Mike
Summary: "Mike Pompeo recounts his political career"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POMPEO, MIKE POMObama, Barack
Summary: In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency,a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil. Obama...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 OBACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 OBAMA, BARACK OBASummary: “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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000