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Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) 1908-1973 Jr Biden, Joseph R Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1917-1963 Legislators Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) 1913-1994 Politics and government Presidents Presidents United States Biography United States United States Politics and government 1969-1974Hargrove, Jim.
Summary: A survey of the life of Richard Nixon, including his youth in California, rise in politics, election as president, and resignation after Watergate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Childrens Press 1985
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB NIXON HARFarrell, John A. (John Aloysius)
Summary: "At the end of World War II, navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returned from the Pacific and set his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now-legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon's finer attributes gave way to unapologetic ruthlessness. The story of that transformation is the stunning overture to John A. Farrell's magisterial biography of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NIXON, RICHARD FARSummary: "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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 BRIFulsom, Don
Summary: Unbeknownst to most people even now, the election of 1968 placed the patron saint of the Mafia in the White House. In other words, Richard Nixon would go on to not only lead a criminal presidency; he would be totally indebted to our nation's top mobsters. By 1969, thanks in large part to his long-time campaign manager and political advisor Murray Chotiner, a lawyer who specialized in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 FULSummary: LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson -- Texan, Democrat, political virtuoso. He rises up out of the 1960s like a Colossus, like something from Shakespeare, filling the stage -- 10, 12 characters in one. He is admired and he is detested. But the real measure of a leader is what he gets done, the size of the problems he faces. Before Lyndon Johnson, we were essentially a segregated society. Inequality...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LBJSchuman, Michael.
Summary: Discusses the life and career of the thirty-sixth president, whose term was filled with controversy over the civil rights movement and the war in Vietnam.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 1998
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB JOHNSON SCHSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2008
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PREHansen, Grace
Summary: This title will introduce little readers to the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Kids 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BIDEN HANCurrie, Stephen
Summary: "Joe Biden was elected president in 2020. His supporters saw their candidate's ultimate victory as a triumph for their vision of America. Few political leaders in American history have had as long a career in politics and government as Biden"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 BIDMatthews, Chris
Summary: Based on interviews with some of his closest associates, a portrait of the thirty-fifth president discusses his privileged childhood, military service, struggles with a life-threatening disease, and career in politics.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2011