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Constitutional history United States Federal government Federal government United States Government investigators Government investigators Fiction Politics and government United States United States Politics and government 1783-1789 United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation Fiction United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.Summary: "The goal of this course is to illuminate the original foundations of our American civic culture by reenacting the Great Debate, from 1787 to 1788, over ratification of the proposed constitution. We will focus on the most profound intellectual and philosophic levels of the contoversy, centered on the competing republican visions held by the proponents of the constitution (Federalists) and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2007
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Summary: "For more than eight decades, The United States Government Manual has been known as the official handbook of the federal government. This annual resource provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, as well as quasi-official agencies, international organizations in which the United States participates, boards, commissions, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bernan Press 2023
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 353 UNINelson, Megan Kate
Summary: "A dramatic, riveting, and deeply researched narrative account of the epic struggle for the West during the Civil War, revealing a little-known, vastly important episode in American history. In The Three-Cornered War Megan Kate Nelson reveals the fascinating history of the Civil War in the American West. Exploring the connections among the Civil War, the Indian wars, and western expansion,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 NELEllis, Joseph J.
Summary: "The prizewinning author of Founding Brothers and American Sphinx now gives us the unexpected story--brilliantly told--of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. The triumph of the American Revolution was neither an ideological nor political guarantee that the colonies would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 342.7302 ELLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ELLFeldman, Noah
Summary: "An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 FELOrr, Tamra.
Summary: Looks at the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. constitution, examining how it came to be passed and how the balance of power between the federal government, the states, and the people has been handled over the years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Central 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 342.73042 ORRDean, John W. (John Wesley)
Summary: Former White House counsel John Dean has become one of the most trenchant and respected commentators on the current state of American politics. Here he takes the broadest and deepest view yet of the dysfunctional chaos and institutional damage that the Republican Party and its core conservatives have inflicted on the federal government. He assesses the state of all three branches of government,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 DEACarville, James.
Summary: "In We're Still Right, They're Still Wrong, Carville analyzes how the Republican party has ultimately failed to deliver on its promises and how Donald J. Trump--the party's likely nominee in the 2016 presidential election--is the embodiment of that failure--and worse..."--Dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 324.2736 CAREllis, Joseph J.
Summary: The triumph of the American Revolution was neither an ideological nor political guarantee that the colonies would relinquish their independence and accept the creation of a federal government with power over their individual autonomy. The Quartet is the story of this second American founding and of the men responsible--some familiar, such as George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973 ELLEllis, Joseph J.
Summary: The unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973 ELLLevin, Mark R. (Mark Reed)
Summary: "'I often wonder what Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, James Madison ..., and the other Founders would think about today's America .... Of course, they would be mesmerized by all the modern inventions and conveniences of everyday life; but what of the ubiquitous nature of the federal government? Surely they would object.' So begins Rediscovering Americanism, a searing plea by ......
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 LEVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 320.520973 LEVDavid, Alex
Contents: New rules for a new country -- The debaters -- The federalist argument -- Defining America -- The anti-federalist argument.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Gov DavidMooney, Carla
Summary: This encyclopedia examines the US government, providing information on everything from the founding of the US government, to the writing of the Constitution, to information on the Biden administration. It covers the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, and spotlight features highlight key individuals who have shaped the US government. Features include glossary, additional resources,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J320.973 MOOSummary: "The threat of foreign and domestic corruption; the balance of power between the federal government and the states and the controversial role of the Supreme Court; the danger of an unrestrained president and the potential remedy of impeachment. During the contest to ratify the Constitution America's founding generation wrestled with key questions and challenges that continue to test our nation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.73 ESSLevin, Mark R. (Mark Reed)
Summary: In modern America, talk radio host Levin argues, the civil society is being steadily devoured by a ubiquitous federal government. But as the government grows into an increasingly authoritarian and centralized federal Leviathan, many parents continue to tolerate, if not enthusiastically champion, grievous public policies that threaten their children and successive generations with a grim future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 LEVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 320.52 LEVMillhiser, Ian
Summary: "Few American institutions have inflicted greater suffering on ordinary people than the Supreme Court of the United States. In this powerful indictment of a venerated institution, constitutional law expert Ian Millhiser tells the history of the Supreme Court through the eyes of everyday people who have suffered the most as a result of its judgements. The justices built a nation where children...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 347 MILSummary: Two FBI agents, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, join forces to solve cases the FBI has labeled X-files. Both are determined to uncover the hidden truths--one searching for otherwordly answers, the other for more earthbound scientific explanations. Together they will make discoveries neither could have ever imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV X-FIHooper, Kay
Summary: "A town shrouded in the occult. An evil that lurks in the dark. The SCU returns in a hair-raising novel from New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper. Nellie Cavendish has very good reasons to seek out her roots, and not only because she has no memory of her mother and hardly knew the father who left her upbringing to paid caregivers. In the eight years since her twenty-first birthday, very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HOOBaldacci, David
Summary: "The latest riveting thriller in David Baldacci's #1 New York Times bestselling Memory Man series"-- "When Amos Decker is called to South Florida to investigate a double homicide, the case appears straightforward: A federal judge and her bodyguard have been found dead, the judge's face sporting a blindfold with two eye holes crudely cut out, a clear sign that she'd made one too many enemies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BaldacciCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BALMasterman, Becky.
Summary: "Ex-FBI agent Brigid Quinn, now happily settled in Tucson, doesn't visit her family in Florida much. But her former partner on the force, Laura Coleman--a woman whose life she has saved and who has saved her life in turn--is living there now. So when Laura calls about a case that is not going well, Brigid doesn't hesitate to get on a plane. On leave from the Bureau, Laura has been volunteering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASCoulter, Catherine.
Summary: Sally Brainerd, daughter of the murdered Amory St. John, flees Washington, D.C., to seek sanctuary in the quaint little town called The Cove, pursued by undercover FBI agent James Quinlan, who believes that Sally holds the key to solving her father's murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COUEvanovich, Janet
Summary: "Janet Evanovich, author of the blockbuster Stephanie Plum novels, and Lee Goldberg, writer for the Monk television show, team up once again in their rollicking, New York Times bestselling Fox and O'Hare series! Nicolas Fox, international con man, thief, and one of the top ten fugitives on the FBI's most-wanted list, has been kidnapped from a beachfront retreat in Hawaii. What the kidnapper...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Evanovich 2016Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS EVASummary: As the second season begins, the X-files have been shut down and Mulder and Scully are separated. Scully finds herself teaching classes at the FBI Academy, while Mulder is assigned to surveillance duty. With Agent Alex Krycek as his new partner, and the mysterious X as his new source of information, Mulder struggles to keep his search for the truth alive. But ironically it is Scully who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006