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Iraq War, 2003- Iraq War, 2003-2011 Obama, Barack Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich 1952- Trump, Donald 1946- United States United States Foreign relations 2001- United States Foreign relations 2001-2009 United States Politics and government 2001-2009 United States Politics and government 2009-Gerges, Fawaz A.
Summary: "During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to distance the United States from the neoconservative foreign policy legacy of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and usher in a new era of a global, interconnected world. More than two years have passed since his inauguration, and the reality of President Obama's approach is in stark contrast to the ebullient and optimistic image that he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 GERDoran, Chris (Chris J. L.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pluto Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.70443 DORRice, Condoleezza
Summary: "From the former secretary of state and bestselling author -- a sweeping look at the global struggle for democracy and why America must continue to support the cause of human freedom. From the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union to the ongoing struggle for human rights in the Middle East, Condoleezza Rice has served on the front lines of history. As a child, she was an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 RICCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 321.8 RICRice, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RICE, CONDOLEEZZA RICColl, Steve
Summary: "From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a deeply researched and news breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts of our time When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 956.7044 COLWoodward, Bob
Summary: War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history. We see President Joe Biden and his top advisers in tense conversations with Russian president Vladimir Putin, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. We also see Donald Trump, conducting a shadow presidency and seeking to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOORich, Frank.
Summary: Reveals the spin campaign of the Bush administration that the author contends enabled the support of a war against a non-September 11 enemy, furthered conservative agendas, and consolidated presidential power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 RICWoodward, Bob
Summary: "War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history. We see President Joe Biden and his top advisers in tense conversations with Russian president Vladimir Putin, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. We also see Donald Trump, conducting a shadow presidency and seeking to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEGonsalves, Marc.
Summary: In "Out of Captivity," Gonsalves, Stansell, and Howes recount for the first time their amazing tale of survival, friendship, and, ultimately, rescue, tracing their five and a half years as hostages of the FARC--a Colombian terrorist and Marxist rebel organization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 986.106 GONSummary: Marred by an over-reliance on stock footage, this documentary attempts to link the United States insatiable appetite for oil as the chief trigger of the war in Iraq. After making some frightening if familiar points about increasing oil consumption and diminishing reserves is unfortunately veers off into discussions of radioactive depleted uranium rounds in Afghanistan, the privatization of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free-Will Productions 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OILAckerman, Spencer
Summary: "An examination of the profound impact that the War on Terror had in pushing American politics and society in an authoritarian direction for an entire generation, at home and abroad, the United States has waged an endless conflict known as the War on Terror. In addition to multiple ground wars, it has pioneered drone strikes and industrial-scale digital surveillance, as well as detaining people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 ACKGates, Robert Michael
Summary: The former Secretary of Defense offers a candid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GATES, ROBERT MICHAEL GATFriedman, Thomas L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 FRISummary: Explores a half-century of U.S. foreign policy from World War II to the Iraq War, revealing how, as Dwight Eisenhower had warned in his 1961 Farewell Address, political and corporate interests have become alarmingly entangled in the business of war. On a deeper level, what emerges is a portrait of a nation in transition--drifting dangerously far from her founding principles toward a more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHYIsikoff, Michael
Summary: Explains how Vladimir Putin and Russia hacked an American election as part of a covert operation to subvert the United States' democracy and help Donald Trump win the presidency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 ISISanger, David E.
Summary: "A fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adversaries--Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia--based on deep reporting from inside the White House, U.S. intelligence agencies, technology firms, and foreign governments"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.9 SANCorsi, Jerome R.
Summary: Explains the globalists' plan to put America on the chopping block and offers constructive solutions for resisting the global New Deal, reversing our dependence on foreign oil, and strengthening our middle class.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 CORClark, Wesley K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 CLAChait, Jonathan
Summary: "Jonathan Chait ... digs deep into Obama's record on major policy fronts-- economics, the environment, domestic reform, health care, race, foreign policy, and civil rights-- to demonstrate why history will judge our forty-fourth president as among the greatest in history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House, an imprint of William Morrow 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.932 CHAKrugman, Paul R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 330 KrugmSummary: Documentary providing an intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation. The principal focus is Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six, and Sunni political candidate who is an outspoken critic of the occupation but passionate about the need to establish democracy in Iraq. As his waiting room is filled daily with patients suffering the physical and mental effects of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MYPompeo, Mike
Summary: "Mike Pompeo recounts his political career"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POMPEO, MIKE POMBegala, Paul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2008