Alter, Jonathan.

Summary: Jonathan Alter, one of the country's most respected journalists and historians, uses his unique access to the White House to produce the first inside look at Obama's difficult debut. In Alter's telling, the real Obama is an authentic, demanding, unsentimental, and sometimes overconfident leader.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBAMA, BARACK ALT

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 973.932 ALT

Peters, Charles

Summary: Documents the 36th president's term in office and the legacy of his achievements, revealing the insights he gained while serving in the Senate and throughout the Kennedy-Johnson administration and discussing how factors including the Vietnam War drove him from office.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2010

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Peters, Charles

Summary: There were four strong contenders when the Republican Party met in June of 1940 to nominate its candidate: the crusading young attorney and rising Republican star Tom Dewey, two solid members of the Republican establishment, and dark horse Wendell Willkie, utilities executive, favorite of the literati and only very recently even a Republican. The leading candidates campaigned as isolationists....

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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2005

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Robinson, Peter

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Regan Books 2003

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Baker, Peter

Summary: Peter Baker's authoritative history of the Obama presidency is the first complete account that will stand the test of time. Baker takes the measure of Obama's achievements and disappointments in office and brings into focus the real legacy of the man who, as he described himself, "doesn't look like all the presidents on the dollar bills."

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Publisher / Publication Date: The New York Times 2017

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Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier)

Summary: An account of John F. Kennedy's campaign, election, and days as President.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, JOHN F SCH

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

Summary: Shortly after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, with a nation deep in mourning and the world looking on in stunned disbelief, Jacqueline Kennedy found the strength to set aside her own personal grief for the sake of posterity and begin the task of documenting and preserving her husband's legacy. In January of 1964, she and Robert F. Kennedy approved a planned oral-history project that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Audio 2011

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