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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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An illustrated edition of John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning study of men who, at a risk to themselves, stood fast for a principle, including John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Sam Houston, Robert Taft, and others. Includes an epilogue by Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, Jr.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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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.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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The Harvard-educated comedian, talk-show host, and U.S. Senator chronicles the story of his unlikely senatorial campaign, detailing the ensuing months-long recount and what his service has taught him about America's deeply polarized political culture.
"From the #1 bestselling author--a book about an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that. This is a book about an unlikely...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Description
New York senator and former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton reflects on her public and private lives, discussing her upbringing in suburban America in the 1950s, her political journey, her marriage and career, motherhood, and life in the White House.
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English
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“A multilayered, inspiring portrait of RFK . . . [the] most in-depth look at an extraordinary figure whose transformational story shaped America.”—Joe Scarborough, The Washington Post
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Soon to be a Hulu original series starring Chris Pine. Larry Tye appears on CNN’s American Dynasties: The Kennedys.
“We are in Larry Tye’s debt for...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Soon to be a Hulu original series starring Chris Pine. Larry Tye appears on CNN’s American Dynasties: The Kennedys.
“We are in Larry Tye’s debt for...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
In this provocative reassessment of one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century American politics, Michael Knox Beran shows how Bobby Kennedy was shaped by values of the aristocratic class to which he had been brought up to belong. He was one of them, until he realized that the welfare state they had helped to create at home and the empire they had helped to found abroad were undermining some of America's most cherished traditions....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Traditionally, Robert F. Kennedy has been viewed as either the "Good Bobby," who saw wrong and tried to right it, or the "Bad Bobby" of countless conspiracy theories, the ruthless and manipulative bully who plotted with the Mafia to kill Castro and lusted after Marilyn Monroe. Evan Thomas' achievement is to realize RFK as a human being, to bring to life an extraordinarily complex man who was at once kind and cruel, devious and honest, fearful and
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Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of the Massachusetts senator's career in Washington describes her childhood pursuit of an education, early exposure to the dysfunctional political process, advocacy of better bankruptcy laws, and run for public office.
13) Huey Long
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English
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A detailed biography of the red-neck politician who became a national demagogue in the twenties and thirties and almost reached the White House.
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