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Personally acquainted and sympathetic with his subject, the author of The Selling of the President, among other works, brings to startling life the childhood, brief triumph, and long downward slide of Ted Kennedy--a man at war with himself, doomed to live in the giant shadow of his brothers.
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"[The author writes] about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady. [This book] is her revealing memoir of life through the White House years. It is also her chronicle of living history with Bill Clinton"--Dust jacket.
6) Pelosi
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She's the iconic leader who puts Donald Trump in his place, the woman with the toughness to take on a lawless president and defend American democracy. Ever since the Democrats took back the House in the 2018 midterm elections, Nancy Pelosi has led the opposition with strategic mastery and inimitable elan. It's a remarkable comeback for the veteran politician who for years was demonized by the right and taken for granted by many in her own party--even...
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A chronicle of the Massachusetts senator's two-decade career in Washington describes her childhood pursuit of an education, early exposure to the dysfunctional political process, high-risk advocacy of better bankruptcy laws and competitive run for public office.
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The Harvard-educated comedian, talk-show host, and U.S. Senator chronicles the story of his unlikely senatorial campaign, detailing the ensuing months-long recount and what his service has taught him about America's deeply polarized political culture.
"From the #1 bestselling author--a book about an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that. This is a book about an unlikely...
11) Barack
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A picture book biography of African-American senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama.
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In this compelling narrative, renowned historian Roy Morris, Jr., expertly offers a new angle on two of America's most towering politicians and the intense personal rivalry that transformed both them and the nation they sought to lead in the dark days leading up to the Civil War.
For the better part of two decades, Stephen Douglas was the most famous and controversial politician in the United States, a veritable "steam engine in britches." Abraham...
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Kennedy's life reads like a Greek tragedy....In many ways, this is a fable disguised as narrative history. Its moral is that the journey of Kennedy's life, his commitment to public service, to the poor and the disadvantaged, should be seen as an inspiring account of what it was like to be at Robert Kennedy's side and why he and many like him felt that vision and virtue walked with them."
14) John Adams
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This biography introduces readers to John Adams including his early political career and key events from Adams's administration including the French Revolution the Alien and Sedition Acts. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint...
15) Franklin Pierce
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This biography introduces readers to the life of Franklin Pierce including his military service, early political career, and key events from Pierce's administration including the Gadsden Purchase, the Treaty of Kanagawa, and Bleeding Kansas. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to...
16) Grover Cleveland
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This biography introduces readers to Grover Cleveland including his early political career and key events from Cleveland's administration including the Presidential Succession Act and the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard...
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This biography introduces readers to Rutherford B. Hayes including his early political career and key events from Hayes's administration including civil service reforms, the end of Reconstruction, and the passage of the Bland-Allison Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state...
18) Thomas Jefferson
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This biography introduces readers to Thomas Jefferson including his early political career and key events from Jefferson's administration, including the Louisiana Purchase and the Embargo Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint...
19) Calvin Coolidge
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This biography introduces readers to the life of Calvin Coolidge including his early political career and key events from Coolidge's administration including the Kellogg-Briand Pact and Coolidge Prosperity. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library...
20) Abraham Lincoln
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This biography introduces readers to Abraham Lincoln including his military service, early political career, and key events from Lincoln's administration including the American Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, and his assassination by John Wilkes Booth. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards...