Foster, Jeff

Summary: "Now more than ever, it's so important for everyone to understand our government: where it came from, how it works, and how we can bring about change. And, after all, in the words of author and government teacher Jeff Foster, "If you don't participate, you can't complain." This book is a comprehensive and entertaining guide that answers questions like: What is the Constitution? What are the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020

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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 320.473 FOS

Hall, Richard.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: s.n. 2007

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AME

Lepore, Jill

Summary: In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. The American experiment rests on three ideas -"these truths," Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, "on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973 LEP

Kirtzman, Andrew

Summary: In this revealing biography, Andrew Kirtzman pieces together Giuliani's rise and fall from hundreds of interviews with friends, family members, White House officials, business partners, and close confidants, some of whom have never gone on the record before. He reveals new information about Giuliani's role in the 2020 election debacle, his relationship with Trump, his troubled personal life,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GIULIANI, RUDY KIR

Pomfret, John

Summary: "In 1990, less than a year after the Polish people participated in their first democratic election since the 1930s, the young Polish government sent a veteran spy, who had battled the West for decades, to rescue six American officers trapped in Baghdad. The CIA had asked the Polish government for help, as the U.S. was desperately cobbling together allies to counter Saddam Hussein's invasion of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1243 POM

Meacham, Jon

Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973 MEA

McLaughlin, Julie

Summary: ""If you don't participate, you can't complain." That's the motto of author and longtime Marjory Stoneman Douglas AP government teacher Jeff Foster. And now, more than ever, it's so important for everyone to understand how the government works and how we can stay informed and get involved. This audiobook is a comprehensive and accessible guide that answers questions like: What is the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA 320.473 MCL

Lewis, Aura

Summary: See the U.S. Constitution in a new light with this bold, modern and accessible illustrated guide to the document that helped define democracy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2020

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 342.7302 LEW

Rohde, 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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 364.1 ROH

Williams, Juan

Summary: The political analyst and civil-rights expert presents a forceful critique of how key decisions by the Trump administration are rolling back advances in voting rights, integration, and racial discrimination.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2018

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 WIL

Contents: Disc 1: Why have government? -- The framework of US federalism -- Civil liberties: freedoms from government -- Civil rights: fairness under government -- How a bill becomes a law -- Why Congress is such a puzzle -- Disc 2: How Congressional elections work -- The powers of presidency -- How presidential elections work -- A road map of the federal bureaucracy -- How the judicial branch works --...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 UND

Kruse, 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...

Format: text

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 KRU

Brownstein, Ronald

Summary: Documents the kaleidoscopic year during which transformative talents from Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, and Beverly Hills heavily influenced pop culture, politics, and social movements.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.4 BRO

Inskeep, Steve

Summary: "From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political acumen of Abraham Lincoln via sixteen encounters before and during his presidency, bringing to light not only the strategy of a great politician who inherited a country divided, but lessons for our own disorderly present. In 1855, as the United States found itself at odds over the issue of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 INS

Wood, Gordon S

Summary: "From the great historian of the American Revolution, NYT-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequentfalling out did much to fix its course. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds, or been more...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WOO

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 WOO

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

Turchin, Peter

Summary: "From the pioneering co-founder of cliodynamics, the ground-breaking new interdisciplinary science of history, a brilliant big-picture explanation for America's civil strife and its possible endgames. Peter Turchin, one of the most interesting social scientists of our age by any measure, has infused the study of history with approaches and insights from other fields for over a quarter century....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.01 TUR

Groom, Winston

Summary: "In this masterful narrative, historian Winston Groom transports readers to the world of the American Revolution, where bold ideas, improbable events, and three extraordinary characters led to the remarkable birth of the country we know today. When the Revolutionary War ended in victory, there remained a stupendous problem: establishing a workable democratic government in the vast, newly...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3092 GRO

Ellis, Joseph J.

Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis offers an epic account of the origins and clashing ideologies of America's revolutionary era, recovering a war more brutal, and more disorienting, than any in our history, save perhaps the Civil War.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3 ELL