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Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to figure that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed...
5) Lost Lake
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a summer night in Portland, Oregon, violence erupts at a Little League game -- and attorney Ami Vergano watches in horror as the quiet, gentle artist she recently befriended does the unexpected and unthinkable . . .
In a cheap motel room in Washington, D.C., Vanessa Kohler -- ex-mental patient, supermarket tabloid reporter, and estranged daughter of a powerful general running for president -- views a news broadcast of the bizarre incident
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A biography of Al Gore, vice-president of the United States, looking at his lonely childhood as the son of politically ambitious parents, the disparity between his personal warmth and public caution, and other aspects of his life and career.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The former secretary of state relates her experiences as the first woman candidate nominated for president by a major party, discussing the sexism, criticism, and double standards she had to confront, and how she coped with a devastating loss.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Presents political verse, predominantly narrative poetry, focusing on the 2012 race for the U.S. presidency, covering the campaign and its various contenders, including Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, and forty-fourth president of the U.S., Barack Obama.
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The president of the United States traditionally serves as a symbol of power, virtue, ability, dominance, popularity, and patriarchy. In recent years, however, the high-profile candidacies of Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Bachmann have provoked new interest in gendered popular culture and how it influences Americans' perceptions of the country's highest political office. In this timely volume, editors Justin S. Vaughn and Lilly J. Goren...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Several children imagine what it would be like to run for U.S. president, thinking about the fun parts, such as appearing on T-shirts and bumper stickers, and the work, including studying the nation's problems and debating issues.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The authors of the best-selling Game Change present an account of the 2012 presidential election that draws on hundreds of insider interviews to illuminate what the election meant to both parties, covering such topics as the dramatic Republican nomination fight, the rise and fall of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama's Election Day triumph.
16) John McCain
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of the life and career of John McCain, from his transitory naval base childhood through the exciting 2008 presidential elections.
Publisher
Little Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The editors of LIFE Books have collected a richly illustrated biography of presidential candidate Barack Obama. This work includes intimate pictures from Obama's childhood and his time as editor of Harvard's Law Review, and culminates with the historic Democratic National Convention.
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