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Author
Publisher
Citadel Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
The first-ever biography of Anna Marie Rosenberg, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant who became a real power behind national policies critical to America winning World War II and prospering afterwards, chronicles her extraordinary career as FDR's special envoy to Europe during the war and an adviser to five presidents.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
©2004
Description
This story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been told many times. But what became of the thirty-three members of the Corps of Discovery once the expedition was over? The expedition ended in 1806, and the final member of the corps passed away in 1870. In the intervening decades, members of the corps witnessed the momentous events of the nation they helped to form--from the War of 1812 to the Civil War and the opening of the transcontinental railroad....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Description
"In the first book to explore President Obama's leadership style by digging into the details of his biggest successes and failures, New York Times bestselling journalist Richard Miniter investigates the secret world of the West Wing and the combative personalities that shape world events. Based on exclusive interviews, inside sources, and never-before-published material, Leading from Behind reveals a president who is indecisive, moody, and often paralyzed...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st Gallery Books hardcover ed.
Description
A former personal assistant to John F. Kennedy, Jr. shares the story of their professional relationship and close friendship, describing how she landed her job under less-than-ideal circumstances, Kennedy's political beliefs, and his untimely death.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Description
The extraordinary life of Pauli Murray, activist, poet, teacher, priest and "firebrand" for all seasons, is beautifully detailed in Patricia Bell-Scott's book. Pauli clearly won the heart of Eleanor Roosevelt as both women sought to advance the cause of Negro rights--indeed all human rights---during their lives. Their history together reverberates today as the fight for equality continues, making this book important reading for all of us."Jane Alexander,...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
This is the story of that fateful afternoon in Daytona, a day whose echoes are still heard today. But the story begins years earlier in a small town in Kentucky, with a boy who dreamed of racing cars, a boy who was determined to go from go-karts to the highest levels of NASCAR. For the first time ever, Michael Waltrip tells the full, revealing story of how he got to Daytona, what happened there, and the huge impact it had on so many in the racing...
Author
Publisher
Persevero Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"In 1940, art-world icon Georgia O'Keeffe bought a house in a mountain-rimmed New Mexico desert, planning to live there for six months every year. To manage her remote household while she paints, O'Keeffe invited Maria Chabot-a young and naïve would-be writer-to join her. Their tempestuous relationship endured throughout the chaotic years of WW2; the death of Georgia's domineering, philandering husband (famed photographer Alfred Stieglitz); and...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st U.S. ed
Description
From October to December 1888, Paul Gauguin shared a home in Arles with Vincent van Gogh. This was, without doubt, the most celebrated cohabitation in art history: never, before or since have two such towering artistic talents been penned up in so small a space. They were the Odd Couple of art history. Predictably, the results were explosive. The dénouement of their life together has entered into folklore. Two months after Gauguin arrived in Arles,...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
"Written by leading royal historian Will Swift, The Roosevelts and the Royals is based on original source materials, including letters and diary entries - many of which are reproduced here - as well as interviews with numerous family members and original comments from the Queen Mother. Telling the story of the Roosevelt and Windsor dynasties from the 1880s all the way up to a royal visit to Hyde Park in 2002, the book traces in detail the early years...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Description
"A novel and brilliant look at how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership: acclaimed historian Michael J. Gerhardt, who appeared during the impeachment proceedings of President Trump, reveals how a group of five men mentored an obscure lawyer with no executive experience to become American's greatest leader"--
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
President Bill Clinton's "My Life" is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellecutal and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
The former special advisor and press secretary to President Ronald Reagan shares a sentimental but often revealing…enjoyable walk down Memory Lane-told through the movies he watched with the Reagans every week at Camp David.
Over the course of eight years, Mark Weinberg travelled to Camp David with Ronald and Nancy Reagan as they screened movies on Friday and Saturday nights. They watched movies in times of triumph, such as the aftermath of Reagan's...
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Formats
Description
"The story of Trump's ... last months at the helm of the country, based on [the author's] ... access to White House aides and to the former president himself, yielding a wealth of new information and insights about what really happened inside the highest office in the land, and the world"--
Politics has given us some shocking and confounding moments but none have come close to the careening final days of Donald Trump's presidency: the surreal stage...
99) The Bush tragedy
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Description
The Bush Tragedy is the first important consideration of the George W. Bush presidency and its profound impact on the state of the world. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with figures inside and out of the administration, Jacob Weisberg has crafted a portrait of George W. Bush that is balanced, insightful, and wide-ranging.
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