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Author
Series
Publisher
Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation
Pub. Date
1988, c1962
Physical Desc
ix, 370 p., [28] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Intimate biography of the wife of the 29th President of the United States with a picture of life and events in the White House during the 1920's.
Author
Series
Stink Moody volume 5
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
Every morning, Judy Moody measures Stink and it's always the same: three feet, eight inches tall. Stink feels like even the class newt is growing faster than he is. Then, one day, the ruler reads - can it be?! - three feet, seven and three quarter inches! Is Stink shrinking? He tries everything to look like he's growing, but wearing up-and-down stripes and spiking his hair aren't fooling anyone. But while he can't ask James Madison - the shortest...
Author
Publisher
Academy Books
Pub. Date
[1984], c1929
Physical Desc
246 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Today Americans of all backgrounds are on the hunt for a different political model. In fact, such a model awaits them, if only they turn their eyes to their own past . . . to America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge's masterful autobiography offers urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt, increasingly centralized power, and fierce partisan division. This expanded and annotated volume, edited by Coolidge biographer Amity Shlaes...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1987, c1974
Physical Desc
349 p., [16] p. of plates : ports. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
With an afterword by the authors marking the fortieth anniversary of Watergate, this is the story that changed America: the inside account of the Watergate scandal from the two Washington Post reporters whose Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation brought down the president. Published before President Nixon's resignation, All the President's Men revealed the full scope of the scandal and introduced for the first time the mysterious "Deep Throat." Beginning...
Author
Publisher
Academy Books, in cooperation with The Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, Inc
Pub. Date
1998, c1970
Edition
4th ed.
Physical Desc
93 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Clears up many of the longstanding myths and inaccuracies associated with the events of August 3, 1923, when Calvin Coolidge assumed the presidency. It also tells for the first time the complete, dramatic and often humorous story of the fateful night that put the tiny hamlet of Plymouth, Vermont, on the map." -- inside cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has...
Author
Publisher
Rinehart
Pub. Date
[1950]
Physical Desc
309 p. illus. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Here is a wonderful, rambunctious gallery of folk: the early "ornery" ones like Hetty Green, the "outsider" who came to Vermont contrary, and stayed to become more so; Russel Colvin, the alleged corpse, who turned out to be not so dead; Eleazer Wheelock's son, John, who became the second president of Dartmouth College -- right through Calvin Coolidge. Her are Vermont's weird religions, fights, sports and finaglings; her artists (including the adopted...
9) Stolen prey
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the small Minnesota town of Deephaven, an entire family has been killed--husband, wife, two daughters, dogs. There's something about the scene that pokes at Lucas's cop instincts--it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution he's seen in drug killings sometimes. But this is a seriously upscale town, and the husband was an executive vice president...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The White House is the home of the President of the United States, the most guarded, monitored, closely watched person in the world. So how could a U.S. President vanish without a trace? And why would he choose to do so? An unprecedented collaboration between President Bill Clinton and the world's bestselling novelist, James Patterson, The President Is Missing is a breathtaking story from the pinnacle of power. Full of what it truly feels like to...
Author
Language
English
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Description
This multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history. Historian Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius, as the one-term congressman rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals to become president. When Lincoln emerged as the victor at the Republican National Convention, his rivals were dismayed. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Never before has a president told the story of his father, another president, through his own eyes and in his own words. A unique and intimate biography, it covers the entire scope of the elder President Bush's life and career. It shines new light on both the accomplished statesman and the warm, decent man known best by his family. In addition, George W. Bush discusses his father's influence on him throughout his own life, from his childhood to his...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
258 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a humorous exploration of the historical events surrounding the assassinations of three United States presidents--McKinley, Garfield, Lincoln--and travels to various sites, monuments, and museums, examining the role of death and violence in popular culture.
Author
Language
English
Description
"With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the...
16) Mounting fears
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
President Will Lee is having a rough week. There are some loose nukes in Pakistan--and a rogue CIA agent--that might just trigger World War III if Lee's diplomatic efforts fall short. It's up to Holly Barker, Lance Cabot, and a few other Stuart Woods series regulars to save the world--and the upcoming election.
Author
Series
NERDS volume 5
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Miss Information kidnaps the president's daughter, it is up to twelve-year old Ruby, also known as Pufferfish, to use her super-nanobyte-enhanded allerigies in leading the NERDS' investigation.
19) Abraham Lincoln
Author
Publisher
Beautiful Feet Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 volumes (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Text and illustrations present the life of the boy born on the Kentucky frontier who became the sixteenth president of the United States.
20) Coolidge
Author
Language
English
Description
A brilliant and provocative reexamination of America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership.
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