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Series
Yale Western Americana volume 36
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
xi, 364 p., [8] p. of plates : ports. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2[016]
Physical Desc
xxi, 580 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws on unpublished memoirs, unreleased government files, private papers, and interviews with Kennedy's close family and colleagues to chronicle his transformation from 1950s cold warrior to a liberal champion of the working class, the poor, and minorities.
10) Dog whistle politics: how coded racial appeals have reinvented racism and wrecked the middle class
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xiv, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A sweeping 50-year history of how the Baby Boomers took the reforms of the 1960s too far, leading to a multitude of contradictions in American society and values that caused our current political polarization"--
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
565 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In his unmistakable voice and with an insider's eye on history, former Vice President Dick Cheney tells the story of his life and the nearly four decades he has spent at the center of American politics and power--
A memoir from the former Vice President of the United States--
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Illuminates Biden's long and eventful career in the Senate, his eight years as Obama's vice president, his sojourn in the political wilderness after being passed over for Hillary Clinton in 2016, his decision to challenge Donald Trump for the presidency, and his choice of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. Osnos ponders the difficulties Biden will face if elected and weighs how political circumstances, and changes in the candidate's thinking,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Chris Matthews's New York Times bestselling portrait of Robert F. Kennedy, "Readers witness the evolution of Kennedy's soul. Through tragedy after tragedy we find the man humanized" (Associated Press).
With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews profiled of one of America's most beloved Presidents and the patriotic spirit that defined him. Now, with Bobby Kennedy, Matthews provides "insight into [Bobby's]...
With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews profiled of one of America's most beloved Presidents and the patriotic spirit that defined him. Now, with Bobby Kennedy, Matthews provides "insight into [Bobby's]...
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical minority of Americans are using "the greatest deliberative body in the world" to hijack our democracy. Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the US Senate, yet the Senate allows an almost exclusively white, predominantly male, and radically conservative minority of the American electorate to impose its will on...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
viii, 581 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Evaluates the relationships between modern presidents and their speechwriters and offers insight into the agendas behind some of history's most famous addresses, in an account that traces the careers of such figures as Ted Sorensen, Peggy Noonan, and William Safire.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
738 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Ted Kennedy is a biography of one of modern America's most fascinating and consequential political figures, drawing on important new sources, by the biographer who covered Kennedy closely for many years"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The story of the dramatic postwar struggle over the proper role of citizens and government in American society. In the 1960s and 70s, an insurgent attack on traditional liberalism took shape in America, built on new ideals of citizen advocacy and the public interest. Environmentalists, social critics, and consumer advocates like Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Ralph Nader, and others crusaded against what they saw as a misguided and often corrupt government....
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxxvi, 887 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"The epic, definitive biography of Ted Kennedy--an immersive journey through the life of a complicated man and a sweeping history of the fall of liberalism and the collapse of political morality. Edward M. Kennedy was never expected to succeed. The youngest of nine, he lacked his brothers' natural gifts and easy grace. Yet after winning election to the Senate at the tender age of thirty, he became the most consequential legislator of his lifetime,...
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