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The West Wing. [videorecording] / by Channing, Stockard.; Hill, Dulé.; Janney, Allison.; Malina, Joshua,1966-; Moloney, Janel,1969-; Schiff, Richard,1959-; Sheen, Martin.; Spencer, John,1946-; Whitford, Bradley.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Disc 1. 7A WF 83429 -- The dogs of war -- Jefferson lives -- Han.Disc 2. Constituency of one -- Disaster relief -- Separation of powers -- Shutdown.Disc 3. Abu el Banat -- The stormy present -- The benign prerogative -- Slow news day.Disc 4. The warfare of Genghis Khan -- An Khe -- Full disclosure -- Eppur Si Muove.Disc 5. The Supremes -- Access -- Talking points -- No exit.Disc 6. Gaza -- Memorial Day.Martin Sheen, Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Joshua Malina, Janel Moloney, Richard Schiff, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford.Follow the drama when the government is temporarily passed from a Democratic administration to the Republican Speaker of the House, as President Bartlet copes with the kidnapping of his youngest daughter Zoey.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
Subjects: Presidents; Presidents; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
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It can't happen here / by Lewis, Sinclair,1885-1951.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-397).LSC
Subjects: Political fiction.; Classics; Literary; Presidents; Presidents; Anti-fascist movements; Newspaper editors; Dictators; Fascists;
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The West Wing. [videorecording] / by Channing, Stockard.; Hill, Dulé.; Janney, Allison.; Malina, Joshua,1966-; Moloney, Janel,1969-; Schiff, Richard,1959-; Sheen, Martin.; Spencer, John,1946-; Whitford, Bradley.; John Wells Productions (Firm); Warner Bros. Television.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Disc 1. The ticket -- The mommy problem -- Message of the week -- Mr. Frost.Disc 2. Here today -- The Al Smith dinner -- The debate [West Coast].Disc 3. Undecided -- The wedding -- Running mates -- Internal displacement.Disc 4. Duck and cover -- The cold -- Two weeks out -- Welcome to wherever you are.Disc 5. Election day, part 1 -- Election day, part 2 -- Requiem -- Transition.Disc 6. The last hurrah -- Institutional memory -- Tomorrow.Martin Sheen, Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Joshua Malina, Janel Moloney, Richard Schiff, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
Subjects: United States. President; White House (Washington, D.C.); Presidents; Presidents; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
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Lincoln's last trial : the murder case that propelled him to the presidency / by Abrams, Dan,author.; Fisher, David,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a case in which he had a deep personal involvement--and which played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign. At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln, who had been involved in more than three thousand cases--including more than twenty-five murder trials--during his two-decades-long career, was hired to defend him. This was to be his last great case as a lawyer. What normally would have been a local case took on momentous meaning. Lincoln's debates with Senator Stephen Douglas the previous fall had gained him a national following, transforming the little-known, self-taught lawyer into a respected politician. He was being urged to make a dark-horse run for the presidency in 1860. Taking this case involved great risk. His reputation was untarnished, but should he lose this trial, should Harrison be convicted of murder, the spotlight now focused so brightly on him might be dimmed. He had won his most recent murder trial with a daring and dramatic maneuver that had become a local legend, but another had ended with his client dangling from the end of a rope. The case posed painful personal challenges for Lincoln. The murder victim had trained for the law in his office, and Lincoln had been his friend and his mentor. His accused killer, the young man Lincoln would defend, was the son of a close friend and loyal supporter. And to win this trial he would have to form an unholy allegiance with a longtime enemy, a revivalist preacher he had twice run against for political office--and who had bitterly slandered Lincoln as an "infidel ... too lacking in faith" to be elected. Lincoln's Last Trial captures the presidential hopeful's dramatic courtroom confrontations in vivid detail as he fights for his client--but also for his own blossoming political future. It is a moment in history that shines a light on our legal system, as in this case Lincoln fought a legal battle that remains incredibly relevant today. --Amazon.com.
Subjects: Biographies.; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Presidents; Trials (Murder);
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The first family detail : Secret Service agents reveal the hidden lives of the presidents / by Kessler, Ronald,1943-author.;
Investigates the relationship between the Secret Service and the presidency as reflected by the protective practices surrounding the First Ladies and children of presidents Truman through Obama.
Subjects: United States. Secret Service; Children of presidents; Presidents' spouses; Secret service;
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The Reagans [videorecording] / by Tyrnauer, Matt,television director.; Showtime Networks,publisher.;
An eye-opening four-part series reexamining one of the most powerful and polarizing political couples of the time. Award winning documentarian and journalist Matt Tyrnauer combines archival footage, exhaustive research, and first-person accounts from the couple's inner circle to craft a revealing portrait of their unlikely rise from Hollywood to the presidency, and Nancy Reagan's powerful position at the helm of their unprecedented partnership. A story of power, its legacy, and a political performance few knew until now.E.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.DVD, NTSC ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Television mini-series.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Nonfiction television programs.; Biographical television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Reagan, Nancy, 1921-2016.; Reagan, Ronald.; Presidents' spouses; Presidents;
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The gatekeepers : how the White House Chiefs of Staff define every presidency / by Whipple, Chris(Christopher C.),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions--and inactions--have defined the course of our country What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president of the United States--as did Donald Rumsfeld, Leon Panetta, and a relative handful of others. The chiefs of staff, often referred to as "the gatekeepers," wield tremendous power in Washington and beyond; they decide who is allowed to see the president, negotiate with Congress to push POTUS's agenda, and--most crucially--enjoy unparalleled access to the leader of the free world. Each chief can make or break an administration, and each president reveals himself by the chief he picks. Through extensive, intimate interviews with all seventeenliving chiefs and two former presidents, award-winning journalist and producer Chris Whipple pulls back the curtain on this unique fraternity. In doing so, he revises our understanding of presidential history, showing us how James Baker's expert managing of the White House, the press, and Capitol Hill paved the way for the Reagan Revolution--and, conversely, how Watergate, the Iraq War, and even the bungled Obamacare rollout mighthave been prevented by a more effective chief. Filled with shrewd analysis and never-before-reported details,The Gatekeepersoffers an essential portrait of the toughest job in Washington"--
Subjects: United States. White House Office; Presidents;
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Lincoln in the bardo [sound recording] : a novel / by Saunders, George,1958-author,narrator.; Offerman, Nick,1970-narrator.; Sedaris, David,narrator.; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.;
Read by Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, George Saunders, and a full cast.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Presidents; Grief;
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Jacqueline Kennedy : historic conversations on life with John F. Kennedy : interviews with Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr,. 1964 / by Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy,1929-1994.; Beschloss, Michael R.; Schlesinger, Arthur M.(Arthur Meier),1917-2007.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Contains the transcripts of interviews with Jacqueline Kennedy that provide insight into the life of her late husband, John F. Kennedy, and the events and people that shaped it. Includes annotations as well as eight compact discs with recordings of the interviews.
Subjects: Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.; Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994; Presidents; Presidents' spouses;
© c2011., Hyperion,
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Zero fail : the rise and fall of the Secret Service / by Leonnig, Carol,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Carol Leonnig has been covering the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the gaffes and scandals that plague the agency today--from a toxic work culture to outdated equipment and training to the deep resentment among the ranks with the agency's leadership. But the Secret Service wasn't always so troubled. The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but its story begins in earnest in 1963, with the death of John F. Kennedy. Shocked into reform by their failure to protect the president on that fateful day, this once-sleepy agency was rapidly transformed into a proud, elite unit that would finally redeem themselves in 1981 by valiantly thwarting an assassination attempt against Ronald Reagan. But this reputation for courage and efficiency would not last forever. By Barack Obama's presidency, the Secret Service was becoming notorious for break-ins at the White House, an armed gunman firing at the building while agents stood by, a massive prostitution scandal in Cartagena, and many other dangerous lapses. To expose the these shortcomings, Leonnig interviewed countless current and former agents who risked their careers to speak out about an agency that's broken and in desperate need of a reform"--
Subjects: United States. Secret Service; United States. Secret Service; Presidents; Presidents; Presidents; Secret service;
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