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201) The McCarthy era
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Discusses the anti-Communist movement in the United States in the mid-twentieth century, spearheaded by Senator Joseph McCarthy, and examines the controversies surrounding the era and personal narrative of the time.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"From Senator Kamala Harris comes a picture book memoir with an empowering message: Superheroes are all around us--and if we try, we can all be heroes too. Also available in Spanish! Before Kamala Harris became a district attorney and a United States senator, she was a little girl who loved superheroes. And when she looked around, she was amazed to find them everywhere! In her family, among her friends, even down the street--there were superheroes...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Description
John Franklin Shafroth ranks among Colorado's most successful politicians. The first person elected to consecutive terms as Colorado's governor, he is also the only Colorado governor ever to serve in both the House of Representatives and the U. S. Senate. As governor, Shofroth battled for progressive causes such as campaign finance reform, coal mine safety, direct election of U.S. senators, and the initiative and referendum. In the Senate he helped...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"James Webb, author of Fields of Fire, the classic novel of the Vietnam War--former U.S. Senator; Secretary of the Navy; recipient of the Navy Cross, Silver Star and Purple Heart as a combat Marine; and a self-described 'military brat'--has written an extraordinary memoir of his early years, 'a love story--love of family, love of country, love of service,' in his words. Webb's mother grew up in the poverty-stricken cotton fields of eastern Arkansas....
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
The audacity of hope : The junior senator from Illinois discusses how to transform U.S. politics, calling for a return to America's original ideals and revealing how they can address such issues as globalization and the function of religion in public life.
Dreams from my father : In New York ... Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man -- has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an...
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