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Summary: In the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Frances Perkins as US Secretary of Labor, the first woman to sit on a presidential cabinet. Against overwhelming odds, she became a driving force behind the New Deal social safety net, including Social Security, the 40-hour workweek, the 8-hour day, minimum wage, and unemployment compensation. Featuring compelling interviews...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Montgomery, Leslie

Summary: This is not a book about politics. It is a book about a little black girl who was born into a Christian home in the racially explosive town of Birmingham, Alabama, during the throes of the Civil Rights Movement. It's about two parents who quietly defied discrimination, stood against injustice, clung to their faith, and raised their child to follow the Lord they themselves served. They believed...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Crossway Audio 2007

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Clinton, Hillary Rodham

4 holds on 4 copies

Summary: A former senator and presidential candidate offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face and the future within our reach.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Albright, Madeleine Korbel.

Summary: The former U.S. Secretary of State and United Nations ambassador chronicles her life, from her childhood as a Czechoslovakian refugee through her rise to power in the world of international diplomacy and policy-making.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Books 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALB

Ghattas, Kim.

Summary: Drawing on interviews with Clinton, administration officials, and other Washington insiders, a foreign correspondent presents the story of Hillary Clinton as America's envoy to the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books, Henry Holt and Company 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM GHA

Klein, Edward

Summary: Klein uncovers the real story behind Hillary Clinton's email scandals and the dirty political games that have kept her one step ahead of the law-- for now.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 324.973 KLE

Albright, Madeleine Korbel

Summary: In 2001, when Madeleine Albright was leaving office as America?s first female secretary of state, interviewers asked her how she wished to be remembered. "I don't want to be remembered," she answered. "I am still here and have much more I intend to do. As difficult as it might seem, I want every stage of my life to be more exciting than the last." In that time of transition, the former...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALBRIGHT, MADALEINE ALB

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B ALBRIGHT ALB

Allen, Jonathan (Jonathan J. M.)

Summary: "An examination of the strategy behind Hillary Clinton's political revitalization and her comeback in the US and abroad"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLINTON, HILLARY ALL

Rice, Condoleezza

Summary: A former national security advisor and Secretary of State offers the compelling story of her eight years serving at the highest levels of government, including the difficult job she faced in the wake of 9/11.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RICE, CONDOLEEZZA RIC

Rice, Condoleezza

Summary: This is the story of Condoleezza Rice-- her early years growing up in the hostile environment of Birmingham, Alabama; her rise in the ranks at Stanford University to become the university's second-in-command and an expert in Soviet and Eastern European Affairs; and finally, in 2000, her appointment as the first Black woman to serve as Secretary of State.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RICE, CONDOLEEZZA RIC

Albright, Madeleine Korbel.

Summary: Albright served as U.S. secretary of state from 1997 to 2001, the first woman ever to hold the position. Here, she tells the stories behind her many pins and jewelry collected on her diplomatic trips around the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 ALB

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