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Audiotapes Bush, George 1924- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) 1908-1973 Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1917-1963 Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) 1913-1994 Politics and government Presidents Presidents United States Biography United States United States Politics and government 1989-1993Oliphant, Pat
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews and McMeel 1991
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.928 OLIWill, George F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 WILSummary: A satirical comedy in which a British documentary crew follows a radical folksinger (and self-made millionaire) turned senatorial candidate as he blends singing, music videos and scandal on the campaign trail.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BOBBush, George W. (George Walker)
Summary: The 43rd president offers an intimate biography of his father, who went from being a World War II fighter pilot, to become the director of the CIA, vice president under Ronald Reagan, and President of the United States himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 BUSH, GEORGE H.W. BUSBush, George W. (George Walker)
Summary: George W. Bush covers the entire scope of the elder President Bush's life and career, including his service in the Pacific during World War II, his pioneering work in the Texas oil business, and his political rise as a Congressman, U.S. Representative to China and the United Nations, CIA Director, Vice President, and 41st President of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUSH, GEORGE BUSGanz, John
Summary: In When the Clock Broke, the acclaimed political writer John Ganz tells the story of America's late-century discontents. Ranging from upheavals in Crown Heights and Los Angeles to the advent of David Duke and the heartland survivalists, the broadcasts of Rush Limbaugh, and the bitter disputes between neoconservatives and the "paleo-con" right, Ganz immerses us in a time when what Philip Roth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1990
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.92 MOYMarlette, Doug
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books/Random House 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 MARKornacki, Steve
Summary: "From MSNBC correspondent Steve Kornacki, a lively and sweeping history of the 1990s--one that brings critical new understanding to our current political landscape"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 KORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.20973 KORBarr, William Pelham
Summary: "William Barr's first tenure as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush was largely the result of chance, while his second tenure under President Donald Trump a deliberate and difficult choice. In this candid memoir, Barr takes readers behind the scenes during seminal moments of the 1990s, from the LA riots to Pan Am 103 and Iran Contra. Thirty years later, Barr faced an unrelenting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BARR, WILLIAM PELHAM BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BARR BARLimbaugh, Rush H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 LIMSummary: A deft politician and skillful diplomat, TR's magnetic personality and genius for publicity made him a legend in his own time. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, this is an engaging portrait of the private man and the president who created the modern American presidency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2008
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PREKruse, 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...
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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 KRUKrogh, Egil
Summary: "The true story of The White House Plumbers, a secret unit inside Nixon's White House, and their ill-conceived plans stop the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, and how they led to Watergate and the President's demise. In a secluded office in President Nixon's White House in 1971, Egil "Bud" Krogh was summoned to a closed-door meeting by his mentor-and a key confidant of the president-John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 KROWallace, Chris
Summary: "It's January 2, 1960: the day that Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy declared his candidacy; and with this opening scene, Chris Wallace offers readers a front-row seat to history. From the challenge of primary battles in a nation that had never elected a Catholic president, to the intense machinations of the national conventions--where JFK chose Lyndon B. Johnson as his running mate over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Bryan Cranston stars in a riveting look at the formidable challenges and demons faced by President Lyndon Johnson on his tumultuous first year in office, from his accidental ascension to the presidency in November 1963, to his relentless fight to win passage of a landmark Civil Rights Bill with the election of 1964 looming.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ALLCarter, Jimmy
Summary: Believing the lack of permanent Middle Eastern peace is a persistent threat to global peace, President Carter suggests two stumbling blocks to lasting harmony in this region. One is Israel refuses to honor previous peace commitments. Secondly, Arab countries refuse to acknowledge Israel's right to exist as a nation. Carter places the lion's share of the blame for this impasse on Israel and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 956.04 CARSummary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAKKampion, Helen
Summary: "The true story of First Lady "Lady Bird" Johnson's historic 1964 Whistle-Stop train journey, making almost fifty stops through eight Southern states in four days to campaign on behalf of her husband's reelection in the wake of the signing of the Civil Rights Act"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB JOHNSON KAMSummary: This Bill Moyers program features news correspondent Richard Strout, who covered Washington and the White House from 1925 to his retirement in 1984. Strout's reports, filed for the Christian Science Monitor and The New Republic, are studied here not only as chronicles of American history but as milestones circumscribing our nation's capital-and its evolution from a "small town" to the nerve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: "A selection of transcribed audio recordings from 1973 covers Nixon and Kissinger's private knowledge of flaws in the 1973 Vietnam peace agreement and the early warnings about the Yom Kippur War in the Middle East,"--Novelist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015