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[2021]
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1 videodisc (approximately 22 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Learn all about Kamala Harris. Explore her background and career path that led her from California politics to being the first woman vice president, the highest-ranking woman in the U.S. government, and the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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The wife of former Vice President and now president elect, Joe Biden, recounts his childhood in Scranton, Pennsylvania, his perseverance and leadership from his earliest years, his struggles to overcome stuttering, his relationships with his family, and his political career.
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"He was a hero of the Revolution, a brilliant politician, lawyer, and very nearly president; a skillful survivor in a raw new country filled with constantly shifting loyalties. Today Aaron Burr is remembered more for the fatal duel that killed rival Alexander Hamilton. But long before that single shot destroyed Burr's political career, there were other dark whispers about him- that he was untrustworthy, a libertine, a man unafraid of claiming whatever...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Looks at United States lawyer, senator, and vice-president Kamala Harris. As a child, little Kamala marched for civil rights with her parents. She was encouraged to fight for justice and to make a difference in the world. From her career as a lawyer, to her time spent as a US senator, to her historic election to the White House as Vice President, Kamala has lived a life of firsts. But, she is determined that she won't be the last. This inspiring story...
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Pub. Date
p2008
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11 sound discs (ca. 13 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bart Gellman takes a controversial look at the man behind the curtain: Dick Cheney. He explores Cheney's vast influence over the Bush administration, and his numerous foreign policy blunders. In addition to being a political science-based biography, Gellman's work provides a fascinating peek into the inner workings of the often secretive Bush administration.
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During a forty-year career in politics, Vice President Dick Cheney has been involved in some of the most consequential decisions in recent American history. He was one of a few select advisers in the room when President Gerald Ford decided to declare an end to the Vietnam War. Nearly thirty years later, from the presidential bunker below the White House in the moments immediately following the attacks of September 11, 2001, he helped shape the response:...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
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....
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Pub. Date
2019.
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564 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Raised in the working-class towns of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware, and with lackluster grades in school and no particular goals, Joe Biden shocked the nation in 1972 when he became one of the youngest elected senators in U.S. history. Over the course of four decades, he carved a legacy for himself as one of the most respected legislators in the country, and was a close friend and partner to President Barack Obama, who valued his...
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