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Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of political powerhouse twins Julián and Joaquín Castro began in the small room that they shared with their grandmother Victoriana in San Antonio, Texas. Victoriana crossed the border from Mexico into Texas as a six-year-old orphan, marking the start of the family's American journey. Her daughter Rosie, Julián and Joaquín's mom, was an activist who helped the barrio through local government. The strong women in their family inspired...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 506 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" The words of Howard Beale, the fictional anchorman in 1976's hit film Network, struck a chord with a generation of Americans. In this new history, the author ranges seamlessly over the political, economic, and cultural high (and low) points of American life in the 1970s, exploring the roots of the fears, resentments, cravings, and disappointments we know so well today. From Richard Nixon and...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
c2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
222 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A graphic novel biography of Barney Frank, one of the first gay and out congressmen and frontline defender of civil rights."--
325) George Wallace
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
George Wallace was an infamous politician and segregationist. He had a lust for power and status that made him bedfellows with racists and became one of the most destructive and most hated American politicians of his time. Follows George from his early days as a state circuit judge to his presidential run, when he was paralyzed by a would-be assassin.
326) American rhapsody
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 432 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The setting: Washington, Hollywood, and the landscape of the American Republic ... The stars: Bill and Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, Al Gore, John McCain, Ken Starr, and Monica Lewinsky. The supporting players: Warren Beatty, James Carville, Sharon Stone, Larry Flynt, Vernon Jordan, Linda Tripp, Matt Drudge, and Bob Packwood (with cameos by Richard Nixon and Farrah Fawcett, Eleanor Roosevelt and David Geffen, Robert Evans and Richard Gere) ......
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
xvi, 365 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This collection--at once insightful, funny and sad--digs into the psyche of the nation's capital. Marjorie Williams knew Washington from top to bottom. Beloved for her sharp analysis, elegant prose and exceptional ability to intuit character, Williams wrote political profiles for the Washington Post and Vanity Fair that came to be considered the final word on the capital's most powerful figures. Her accounts of playing ping-pong with Richard Darman,...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; cm
Language
English
Description
"Gyalo Thondup has long lived out of the spotlight and hidden from view, but his whole life has been dedicated to the cause of his younger brother and Tibet. He served for decades as the Dalai Lama's special envoy, the trusted interlocutor between Tibet and foreign leaders from Chiang Kai-shek to Jawaharlal Nehru, Zhou Enlai to Deng Xiaoping. Traveling the globe and meeting behind closed doors, Thondup has been an important witness to some of the...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From an 'illuminating and entertaining' (The New York Times) historian comes the World War II story of two men whose remarkable lives improbably converged at the Tokyo war crimes trials of 1946. In the wake of World War II, the Allied forces charged twenty-eight Japanese men with crimes against humanity. Correspondents at the Tokyo trial thought the evidence fell most heavily on ten of the accused. In December 1948, five of these defendants were...
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