Central Kansas Library System

John Heilemann and Mark Halperin chronicle the historical 2008 United States presidential election. From Barack Obama's rise to the Oval Office to the Sarah Palin blunder that may have cost the Republicans the election, Heilemann and Halperin offer an inside look into one of the most momentous occasions in American history.

Harvey Milk is a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, becomes a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he is elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977, the first openly-gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. The following year, both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, are shot to death by former city supervisor, Dan White, who blames his former colleagues for denying...

"It sounded like a good job with nice pay -- five hundred in gold to get the Central Party's candidate through the campaign alive. It was an easy decision for Shawn Starbuck to make. The campaign would be over in two months and the pay would keep him going for many more months as he continued the search for his brother. But Starbuck soon found himself mistrusted by the very ones who hired him! He even met opposition from beautiful Carla Flood, the...