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TITLE: The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
AUTHOR: Kamala Harris CALL NUMBER: 921 Har SUMMARY: Harris, Vice President and a former United States senator from California, describes how her upbringing and her career as the district attorney for San Francisco and later as California's attorney general influenced her passion for justice. She communicates a vision of shared struggle, shared purpose, and shared values and discusses the core truths that unite us and how to best act on them. |
TITLE: A Promised Land
AUTHOR: Barack Obama CALL NUMBER: 921 Oba SUMMARY: Barack Obama, the forty-fourth United States President discusses his life. |
TITLE: Becoming
AUTHOR: Michelle Obama WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Oba SUMMARY: An autobiography of lawyer and American First Lady Michelle Obama. |
TITLE: Unpresidented
AUTHOR: Martha Brockenbrough WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Tru SUMMARY: Looks at the life of American businessman and president, Donald Trump. |
TITLE: In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives
AUTHOR: Kenneth C. Davis WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 920 Dav SUMMARY: An examination of American slavery through the true stories of five enslaved people who were considered the property of some of our best-known presidents. |
TITLE: "The President Has Been Shot!": The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
AUTHOR: James L. Swanson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 973.92 Swa SUMMARY: Looks at the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and related events, including his funeral and the apprehension of his killer. |
TITLE: Act of Treason
AUTHOR: Vince Flynn WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Fly - THRILLER SUMMARY: CIA operative Mitch Rapp finds a shocking link between a group of killers and the American government and risks everything to bring them to justice. |
TITLE: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
AUTHOR: Timothy Snyder WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 321.6 Sny SUMMARY: The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come. |
TITLE: What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
AUTHOR: Michael Eric Dyson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.8 Dys SUMMARY: A timely follow-up to Tears We Cannot Stop examines the sources of America's torturous racial politics, tracing the 1963 meetings that included James Baldwin, Robert Kennedy and a host of expert activists, who transformed racial and political understandings and set the stage for national disputes that are still raging today. |
TITLE: The Making of Donald Trump
AUTHOR: David Cay Johnston WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Tru SUMMARY: Provides an in-depth biography of Donald Trump, from his childhood in Queens, New York to his more than 500 real estate and business ventures. |
TITLE: It Can't Happen Here
AUTHOR: Sinclair Lewis WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lew - CLASSICS SUMMARY: Senator "Buzz" Windrip, having used hot rhetoric, warm folksiness, and cold calculation to get into the White House, proceeds to bring in his own paramilitary storm troopers, seizes control of the government, and sets in motion his totalitarian program. |
TITLE: Who Was Theodore Roosevelt?
AUTHOR: Written by Michael Burgan: illustrated by Jerry Hoare WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Roo SUMMARY: A biography of United States President Theodore Roosevelt. |
TITLE: The Plot Against America
AUTHOR: Philip Roth WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rot - CLASSICS SUMMARY: A novel that imagines what might have happened in America, particularly to one Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, had Charles Lindbergh won the 1940 presidential election rather than Franklin Roosevelt and acted upon his anti-Semitic leanings. |
TITLE: The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
AUTHOR: Masha Gessen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 947.08 Ges SUMMARY: Examines the life of Vladimir Putin, tracing his remarkable rise to power as the leader of modern Russia. |
TITLE: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
AUTHOR: Doris Kearns Goodwin WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 973.7 Goo SUMMARY: Presents an overview of the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, explaining the genius of his political savvy, and describes the context in which he assigned a cadre of his fiercest rivals as his closest cabinet advisers. |
TITLE: When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences
AUTHOR: Eric Alterman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 327.73 Alt SUMMARY: A distinguished journalist assesses the profound impact of governmental and presidential lies on American culture, revealing how such lies become ever more complex and how such deception creates problems far more serious than those lied about in the beginning, and focuses on four specific instances involving FDR, Kennedy, LBJ, and Ronald Reagan. |
TITLE: No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
AUTHOR: Doris Kearns Goodwin WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Roo SUMMARY: Examines the distinct leadership roles of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during the war years and discusses the dynamics of their marriage. |