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The untold history of the United States / by Stone, Oliver.; Kuznick, Peter J.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [619]-709), Internet addresses and index.LSC
© 2012., Gallery Books,
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The Investigator : fifty years of uncovering the truth / by Lenzner, Terry F.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Murder of the innocents -- Zig when others zag -- Dirty tricks -- The secret in Hank's safe -- The tribes -- Where there's a will there's a way -- Conducting investigations -- Seeing no evil -- A second presidential scandal -- Reality for sale -- The politics of truth.
Subjects: Lenzner, Terry F.; Journalists;
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Where's my Roy Cohn? [videorecording] / by Stone, Roger,1952-on-screen participant.; Tyrnauer, Matt,film director.; Walters, Barbara,1929-on-screen participant.; Sony Pictures Classics (Firm),production company.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Roy M. Cohn, Roger Stone, Barbara Walters.Roy Cohn was a ruthless and unscrupulous lawyer and political power broker whose 28-year career ranged from acting as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy's Communist-hunting subcommittee to molding the career of a young Queens real estate developer named Donald Trump.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 DVS.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Biographical films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Cohn, Roy M.; Lawyers; Politics, Practical;
For private home use only.
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This country : my life in politics and history / by Matthews, Chris,1945-author.;
The former host of MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews" offers a panoramic portrait of post-World War II American politics through the story of his extraordinary life and career.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Matthews, Christopher, 1945-; Television journalists;
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Profiles in ignorance : how America's politicians got dumb and dumber / by Borowitz, Andy,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Andy Borowitz, "one of the funniest people in America" (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly examines the intellectual deterioration of American politics, from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle, from George W. Bush to Sarah Palin, to its apotheosis in Donald J. Trump. The winner of the first-ever National Press Club award for humor, Andy Borowitz has been called a "Swiftian satirist" (The Wall Street Journal) and "one of the country's finest satirists" (The New York Times). Millions of fans and New Yorker readers enjoy his satirical news column "The Borowitz Report." Now, in Profiles in Ignorance, he offers a witty, spot-on diagnosis of our country's political troubles by showing how ignorant leaders are degrading, embarrassing, and endangering our nation. Borowitz argues that over the past fifty years, American politicians have grown increasingly allergic to knowledge, and mass media have encouraged the election of ignoramuses by elevating candidates who are better at performing than thinking. Starting with Ronald Reagan's first campaign for governor of California in 1966 and culminating with the election of Donald J. Trump to the White House, Borowitz shows how, during the age of twenty-four-hour news and social media, the US has elected politicians to positions of great power whose lack of the most basic information is terrifying. In addition to Reagan, Quayle, Bush, Palin, and Trump, Borowitz covers a host of congresspersons, senators, and governors who have helped lower the bar over the past five decades. Profiles in Ignorance aims to make us both laugh and cry: laugh at the idiotic antics of these public figures, and cry at the cataclysms these icons of ignorance have caused. But most importantly, the book delivers a call to action and a cause for optimism: History doesn't move in a straight line, and we can change course if we act now.
Subjects: Politicians; Politicians;
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The last honest man : the CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys--and one senator's fight to save democracy / by Risen, James,author.; Risen, Tom,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In this "gripping ... spectacular piece of reporting" (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center of numerous investigations into the abuses of power within the American government. For decades now, America's national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only once did someone manage to put a stop to any of it. Senator Frank Church of Idaho was an unlikely hero. He led congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and had become a scathing, radical critic of what he saw as American imperialism around the world. But he was still politically ambitious, privately yearning for acceptance from the foreign policy establishment that he hated and eager to run for president. Despite his flaws, Church would show historic strength in his greatest moment, when in the wake of Watergate he was suddenly tasked with investigating abuses of power in the intelligence community. The dark truths that Church exposed--from assassination plots by the CIA, to links between the Kennedy dynasty and the mafia, to the surveillance of civil rights activists by the NSA and FBI--would shake the nation to its core, and forever change the way that Americans thought about not only their government but also their ability to hold it accountable. Drawing upon hundreds of interviews, thousands of pages of recently declassified documents, and reams of unpublished letters, notes, and memoirs, some of which remain sensitive today, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James Risen tells the gripping, untold story of truth and integrity standing against unchecked power--and winning--in The Last Honest Man."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Church, Frank, 1924-1984.; Intelligence service; Political corruption;
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Enormous crime: the definitive account of American POWs abandoned in Southeast Asia / by Hendon, Bill (William Martin),1944-; Stewart, Elizabeth A.;
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Prisoners of war -- United States --History -- 20th century.; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.;
© 2007., Thomas Dunne Books,
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On the house : a Washington memoir / by Boehner, John,1949-author.;
"A memoir by former speaker of the house John Boehner"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Boehner, John, 1949-; United States. Congress. House; United States. Congress. House; United States. Congress. House; Legislators;
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Every day is extra / by Kerry, John,1943-author.;
"John Kerry tells the story of his extraordinary life of public service, from decorated Vietnam veteran to five-term United States senator, 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, and Secretary of State for four years: a personal and candid memoir by a witness to some of the most important events of our recent history, including the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate accords."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Kerry, John, 1943-; Statesmen; Cabinet officers; Presidential candidates; Legislators; Vietnam War, 1961-1975;
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American midnight : the Great War, a violent peace, and democracy's forgotten crisis / by Hochschild, Adam,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A character-driven look at a pivotal period in American history, 1917-1920: the tumultuous home front during WWI and its aftermath, when violence broke out across the country thanks to the first Red Scare, labor strife, and immigration battles"--
Subjects: Labor movement; Political violence; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918;
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