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A groundbreaking look at the lives of George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, the most consequential father-son pair in American history, often in their own words.
In this revealing, often poignant work, presidential historian Mark K. Updegrove tracks the two Bush presidents from their formative years through their post-presidencies and the failed presidential candidacy of Jeb Bush, derailing the Bush presidential dynasty.
Drawing extensively...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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260 pages ; 22 cm
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In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years. It was the one constant in what had become a hectic, scrutinized, and overscheduled life. But this year felt different from all those that had come before. Joe and Jill Biden's eldest son, Beau, had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor fifteen months earlier, and his survival was uncertain....
8) Housebroken
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[2010]
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1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A newly retired father wants to enjoy his golden years relaxing at home with this lovely wife. Mom and Dad want to claim their rec room for themselves, and the only thing standing in their way is their two older sons who won't move out! When Mom and Dad decide that the only thing that will solve the problem is for them to move out, the sons must learn how to pay bills and it's either sink or swim for clueless Elliot and Quinn.
9) My father's business: the small-town values that built Dollar General into a billion-dollar company
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A first-person account of the family that changed the American retail landscape. Long time Dollar General CEO Cal Turner, Jr. shares his extraordinary life as heir to the company founded by his father, Cal Turner, Sr., and his grandfather, a dirt farmer turned Depression-era entrepreneur. Cal's narrative is at its heart a father-son story, from his childhood in Scottsville, Kentucky, where business and family were one, to the triumph of reaching the...
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c2006
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1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Nick Naylor is a sexy, smart and charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who will fight to protect American's right to smoke. At the same time he is trying to maintain the idea of a perfect role model for his 12-year-old son. When Nick incurs the wrath of a senator bent on snuffing out cigarettes, Nick's powers of "filtering the truth" will be put to the test.
11) Fences
Pub. Date
[2017]
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1 videodisc (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In 1950s Pittsburgh, a Black garbage collector named Troy Maxson--bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues--is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
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2023.
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245 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
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When Andrew McCarthy's eldest son began to take his first steps into adulthood, McCarthy found himself wishing time would slow down. Looking to create a more meaningful connection with Sam before he fled the nest, as well as recreate his own life-altering journey decades before, McCarthy decided the two of them should set out on a trek like few others: 500 miles across Spain's Camino de Santiago. Over the course of the journey, the pair traversed...
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