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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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During 1954-1955, John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. Senator, chose eight of his historical colleagues to profile for their acts of astounding integrity in the face of overwhelming opposition. These heroes include John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, and Robert A. Taft. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, Profiles in Courage-now reissued in this handsome hardcover edition, featuring a new introduction by Caroline Kennedy, as well as Robert...
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It's amateur hour at the White House. So says New York Times bestselling author Edward Klein in his new political expos?e The Amateur. Tapping into the public's growing sentiment that President Obama is in over his head, The Amateur argues that Obama's toxic combination of incompetence and arrogance have run our nation and his presidency off the rails. "Obama was both completely inexperienced and ideologically far to the left of Americans when he...
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2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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FP 1.2M. From the team of Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, bestselling authors of the blockbuster Killing series, now comes KILLING REAGAN. This page-turning epic account of the career of President Ronald Reagan tells the vivid story of his rise to power - and the forces of evil that conspired to bring him down. Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan lay near death after an assassin's bullet came within inches of his heart. His recovery...
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2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain's King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. What started as protest and unrest in the colonies soon escalated to a world war with devastating casualties. O'Reilly and Dugard recreate the war's landmark battles, including Bunker...
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Crown Forum
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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A Fox News political analyst tackles some of our communities' toughest challenges with timely insight from his own life: the story of how conservative values helped a kid from the South Side of Chicago find a life of opportunity. -- From Amazon.com summary.
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National Geographic Partners
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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National Geographic presents the 43 individuals who have led the U.S., plus America's newest commander-in-chief, in this up-to-date, authoritative, and lavishly illustrated family, school, and library reference. It features comprehensive profiles of the 43 former presidents along with timelines and descriptions of crucial events during their terms. Information about the 2016 president-elect is also included. Thematic spreads cover a variety of topics...
13) Peril
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Bob Woodward and Robert Costa cover the end of the Trump presidency and the early months of the Biden presidency.
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Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Right-wing stalwart Mark R. Levin posits that since its establishment, the [Democratic] Party has set out to rewrite history and destroy the foundation of freedom in America. More than a political party, it is the entity through which Marxism has installed its philosophy and its new revolution. As in a Thomas Paine pamphlet or a clarion call from Paul Revere, Levin believes that his fellow Americans [are facing] destruction, ... and rallies them to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Recounts the murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and how gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.
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Viking
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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In Hitler's Scientists, British historian John Cornwell explores German scientific genius in the first half of the twentieth century and shows how Germany's early lead in the new physics led to the discovery of atomic fission, which in turn led the w
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Simon & Schuster and St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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State of Terror follows Ellen Adams, a novice Secretary of State, who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray and the secretary is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy, a scheme carefully designed to take advantage of an American government dangerously out...
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