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The issue of slavery loomed ever larger in American politics as the middle of the Nineteenth Century passed. The Republican Party, birthed to destroy the institution, inaugurated its first candidate in 1856. Four years later Abraham Lincoln gained the nomination. The Democratic Party, committed to preserving and expanding slavery, nominated Stephen A. Douglas. Abraham Lincoln won the presidency, casting the nation into a bloody civil war. Abraham
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"A delightful collection of love letters by American presidents to their wives--and lovers--revealing an intimate and deeply personal side of our leaders. All the letters show the writer at his most vulnerable. We see letters of sorrow written about the death of a child or during a time of separation while the president was away on the battlefield. This beautiful book is a captivating collection of love stories revealing a human side of the men we...
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English
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Instant New York Times Bestseller
#1 New York Times bestselling author Bret Baier reveals how George Washington saved the Constitution–and the American experiment
"To Rescue The Constitution is a masterful exploration of the electrifying struggle to unite a young United States." —Jay Winik
A sweeping narrative ranging from the unsettled early American frontier and
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Black autumn companion volume 4
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2018.
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153 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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President Nathaniel "Dutch" McAdams and his family are swept away on Air Force One when a Black Swan event cripples the rattled American economy. Meant to be a safe-haven, he soon finds the violence in the air just as savage as the chaos on the ground.
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Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
280 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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When a mysterious invitation to join the ranks of the White House kids transports them back to 1903, Marissa and Clara, whose mom is the newly elected president of the United States, team up with the Roosevelt children to help their father save the nation.
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[2023]
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English
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"For a century, the Panama Canal has served as the path between the seas. Control of this vital waterway is the difference between free trade and chaos in world markets. So when Panamanian President Rafael Botero asks for a show of support against the socialist opposition, his old friend President Jack Ryan can't turn down an invitation to visit the country. But what seems like an ordinary opportunity to preach the values of democracy quickly turns...
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Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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239 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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"In The Presidents Decoded: A Guide to the Leaders Who Shaped Our Nation, author Katie Kennedy presents the 45 people who have held the role of President of the United States. From George Washington to Joe Biden, each leader's time in office is broken down and explained through primary sources--documents, letters, policies, and diaries--that show the what, how and why of our leaders' thoughts, decisions and policies. Familiar documents like the preamble...
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Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Español
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Kamala Harris cuenta la incríeble historia de la primera mujer, la primera persona negra y la primera estadounidense del sur de Asia en ser elegida vicepresidenta de los Estados Unidos de America.
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Sentinel
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xv, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country's most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced new barriers to voting. Slavery had been abolished, but...
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Black Autumn volume 8
Publisher
Readyman
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
371 pages; 21 cm
Language
English
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"President Nathaniel 'Dutch' McAdams saves his family from the apocalypse but sacrifices his duty in the process. With the nation in ruins, he retreats into a brutal regimen of physical fitness and combat training, resolving to fight to the death as a partisan for the country he failed. His family settled among the Paiute Indians of Northern Nevada where, two months later, a Russian Spetsnaz unit comes searching for the nuclear missile control briefcase...
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"From author and news anchor Raymond Arroyo comes a picture book biography of Tad Lincoln and his father President Abraham Lincoln and a story about a father's love for his son and the wisdom of a child. Tad Lincoln was forever getting into trouble. He bounced around the White House making mischief and annoying the staff. Only President Lincoln was never annoyed--he delighted in his son's antics. Tad was his father's joy and comfort in the midst...
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
115 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"A middle-grade nonfiction book about one of America's most historically resonant images, the circumstances surrounding its creation, and the larger story it tells about Abraham Lincoln's life"--
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Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 66
Physical Desc
1137 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Newly elected, Jack Ryan has found that being President is not easy: domestic pitfalls await him at every turn; there's a revolution in Liberia; the Asian economy is going down the tubes; and now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to assassinate the chairman of the SVR-the former KGB-with a rocket-propelled grenade. Were the potential assassins political enemies, the Russian Mafia, or disaffected former KGB? Or is something far more dangerous at work...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
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xxi, 486 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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From the Founding to today, this book tells the stories of seven former presidents who each changed history and offered lessons about how to decide what to do in the next chapter of life as they handled human problems of ego, finances and questions about their legacy and mortality.
18) Enough
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Cassidy Hutchinson's desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history. Now, she provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where she risked everything to tell the truth about some of the most powerful people in Washington. Ever since a childhood visit to Washington, DC, Cassidy Hutchinson aspired to serve her country in...
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
viii, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"From the moment she first enchanted the world as a youthful princess, Queen Elizabeth II found a unique place in American hearts-and she also played an unprecedented role in forging transatlantic ties. Over her seventy-year reign, she developed extraordinary and varied personal bonds with thirteen U.S. presidents-Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, both Bush Sr. and Jr., Clinton, Obama, Trump, and Biden-that other diplomats...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
444 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Crisis has a way of laying bare our truest selves: who we trust, which principles and impulses we heed, whose lives we deem expendable. As it ravaged millions of lives, the Covid-19 pandemic revealed and accentuated the dividing lines that had already, for decades, splintered American public life. Against the backdrop of the 2020 presidential election, misinformation regimes, and the transformation of the facemask into a flagrant political symbol,...
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