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Author
Publisher
Ig Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"After being named Assistant Director of Intelligence for the Capitol Police just days before the 2020 election, Julie Farnam warned its leadership of the upcoming insurrection, sharing that "Congress itself is the target on the 6th." Tragically, her warnings were ignored. DOMESTIC DARKNESS takes us inside the explosive events of January 6, 2021, exposing how the Capitol Police disregarded intelligence about the right-wing extremists who would seize...
63) Game change
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Game Change is a searing, behind-the-scenes look at John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, from the decision to select Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as McCain's running mate to the ticket's ultimate defeat in the general election just sixty days later. Told primarily through the eyes of senior McCain strategist Steve Schmidt, who originally championed Palin and later came to regret the choice.
64) The Comey rule
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Jeff Daniels and Brendan Gleeson star as former FBI Director James Comey and President Donald J. Trump in this two-part event series that tells the story of two powerful men, whose strikingly different personalities, ethics and loyalties put them on a collision course. Part 1 follows the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails and their impact on the election. Part 2 is an account of the first months of the Trump presidency." -- Container.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It has been called the political crime of the century: a foreign government, led by a brutal authoritarian leader, secretly interfering with the American presidential election to help elect the candidate of its choice. Now two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post national security reporter Greg Miller investigates the truth about the Kremlin's covert attempt to destroy Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump win the presidency, Trump's steadfast...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
-- The New Yorker Former vice president Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest--fortunate to have sustained a fifty-year political career that reached the White House, but also marked by deep personal losses and disappointments that he has suffered. Yet even as Biden's life has been shaped by drama, it has also been powered by a willingness, rare at the top ranks of politics, to confront his shortcomings, errors,...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Based of a true story about a journalist who gets detained and brutally interrogated in prison for 118 days. A Tehran-born journalist based in London, Maziar Bahari returns to Iran to cover the 2009 presidential election and its ensuing riots. He is detained by Iranian forces who relentlessly interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.
69) W
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A look at the life of the 43rd president of the United States. Rising from a privileged alcoholic to a born-again Christian whose belief in religious destiny helped move him to the top ranks of political power. How he used Christianity to turn his life around, met and married his wife, and the days before his decision to declare war on Iraq.
Publisher
Chiron Publications
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Narcissism is epidemic and there is scarcely a domain that is immune. "A Clear and Present Danger: Narcissism in the Era of Donald Trump" brings together bestselling authors, university professors, and practicing clinicians. "Every country has the government it deserves," said Alexis de Toqueville, author of "Democracy in America. " Whatever history eventually records about the 2016 presidential election, this frank and thoughtful exploration of...
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Radical Hope is a collection of letters to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged--written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists. Provocative and inspiring, Radical Hope offers readers a kaleidoscopic view of the love and courage needed to navigate this time of upheaval, uncertainty, and fear, in view of the recent US presidential...
72) The steal
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the sixty-four days between November 3 and January 6, President Donald Trump and his allies fought to reverse the outcome of the vote. Focusing on six states--Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin-- Trump's supporters claimed widespread voter fraud. It was not a well-orchestrated matter. There was no guiding genius pulling the strings in key states for the defeated Donald Trump. In the weeks after the election, in counties...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A bold blueprint for moving beyond the "era of institutional failure" by transforming our outmoded political and economic systems to be resilient to twenty-first-century problems, from the entrepreneur, bestselling author, and popular political truth-teller. Despite being written off by the media, Andrew Yang's shoestring 2020 presidential campaign--powered by his proposal for a Universal Basic Income of $1,000 a month for all Americans--jolted the...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"There's never been a timelier moment for kids to learn the importance of voting. Your Vote Matters walks readers through all the ins and outs of voting in America-and more specifically, voting in presidential elections. This easy-to-understand illustrated guide explains every step in the presidential election process-from who is eligible to run for president to what the president does once they are sworn into office. Learn about campaigning and debates,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
Cuando Brittany Kaiser, una consultora política novata especializada en derechos humanos y relaciones internacionales, se sentó por primera vez con Alexander Nix, el carismático líder de la nueva empresa de comunicación política Cambridge Analytica, creía que los datos personales, la información precisa e identificable recogida de los smartphones, redes sociales y otros hábitos online, podían ser una fuerza para el bien.Pero lo que empezó...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"America's #1 citizen Ralph Nader's latest book shows us how unchecked corporate power has led to the wrecking ball that is the Trump presidency. Nader brings together the outrages of the Trump administration with the key flaws and failures of the previous administrations--both Republican and Democratic--that have led our nation to its current precipice. It's all in the details and Ralph Nader knows them all. Trump didn't come out of nowhere. Bush...
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
In the 2004 election, there were 3 million more Hispanic voters in 2000. Hispanics put President George W. Bush at the White House in 2000 and then reelected in 2004. It is impossible to ignore such a big influence and a vote so important.
The most dramatic change that this country is experiencing has nothing to do with the war on terrorism or the economy has to do simply with ca demographic revolution driven by Latinos. America is the wave. In 2002,...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Whistlestop tells the human story of nervous gambits hatched in first-floor hotel rooms, failures of will before the microphone, and the cross-country crack-ups of long-planned stratagems. At the bar at the end of a campaign day, these are the stories reporters rehash for themselves and embellish for newcomers. In addition to the familiar tales, Whistlestop is a ride through the American campaign history with one of its most enthusiastic conductors...
79) The Comey rule
Publisher
Showtime Networks Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of former FBI Dir. James Comey and President Donald J. Trump, two powerful men whose strikingly different ethics and loyalties put them on a collision course.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Dahlia Lithwick, one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the gripping and heroic story of the women lawyers who fought the racism, sexism, and xenophobia of Donald Trump's presidency - and won. After the sudden shock of Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, many Americans felt lost and uncertain. It was clear he and his administration were going to pursue a series of retrograde, devastating policies. What could be done?...
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