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Pub. Date
2016
Language
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...
4) Persist
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
The influential senator and former presidential candidate, in this deeply personal book and a powerful call to action, writes about six perspectives that have influenced her life and advocacy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Barack Obama’s lucid vision of America’s place in the world and call for a new kind of politics that builds upon our shared understandings as Americans, based on his years in the Senate
“In our lowdown, dispiriting era, Obama’s talent for proposing humane, sensible solutions with uplifting, elegant prose does fill one with hope.”—Michael...
“In our lowdown, dispiriting era, Obama’s talent for proposing humane, sensible solutions with uplifting, elegant prose does fill one with hope.”—Michael...
6) Barack Obama
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and career of Hillary Clinton, discussing her childhood in Illinois, her college and law school years, her life as First Lady, her time as a New York State senator, and her achievements as Secretary of State.
9) Barack Obama
Series
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Edition
[Inaugural ed.]
Language
English
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Description
Follow Obama from his early childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, through his teenage struggles for self-identity, his student days at Columbia University and Harvard Law School, and his political career in Chicago. Go behind the scenes of Obama's extraordinarily successful presidential campaign and his journey to the 2008 Democratic Convention, and finally his election as president.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Senator Kamala Harris is known as a tough prosecutor. She made history as the first Black and Indian woman to lead a major ticket. Follow her fight to the White House!"--
Author
Publisher
Amistad/Collins
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Biography of Barack Obama, from his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia to his presidential campaign.
Barack Obama captured America's attention when he delivered his renowned keynote address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Since then, he has come to represent unity among people of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds. Follow the story of a boy named Barry, from his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia to his time at Occidental College studying...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Introduces the former first lady, senator and secretary of state while describing how she became a role model for women as a lawyer, a staunch supporter of important political and social causes, and the first woman to run as the Democratic candidate for president.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country. By reckoning with the big challenges we face together, drawing on the hard-won wisdom and insight from her own career and the work of those who have most inspired her, Kamala Harris offers in The Truths We Hold a...
Author
Publisher
Caedmon
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Abridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Presents John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning study of men who, at a risk to themselves, stood fast for a principle, covering John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Sam Houston, Robert Taft, and others.
Author
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
c2009, p2008
Language
Español
Description
Barack Obama maintains the vision that people must move beyond differences if they wish to solve their nation's problems. Here, he calls for a new kind of politics, void of bitter partisanship.
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