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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A minute-by-minute account of the 1981 assassination attempt on the fortieth president reveals how close he came to dying, in a report that pays tribute to the individuals who saved his life and oversaw national security throughout the crisis.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Kramer, the first female president of the United States, struggles to regain her footing when rumors of her husband's infidelity and her national security advisor's errors in judgment threaten her marriage, administration, and the country.
48) James Madison
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
James Madison led one of the most influential and prolific lives in American history, and his story, although all too often overshadowed by his more celebrated contemporaries, is integral to that of the nation. Madison helped to shape our country as perhaps no other Founder: collaborating on the Federalist Papers and the Bill of Rights, resisting government overreach by assembling one of the nation's first political parties (the Republicans, who became...
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Fully updated to include the 2016 election, this book is the most thorough, authoritative, and up-to-date single-volume reference to the presidency in print. In The American President: A Complete History , historian Kathryn Moore presents a riveting narrative of each president's experiences in and out of office, along with illuminating facts and statistics about each administration, timelines of national and world events, astonishing trivia, and more....
Publisher
Newmarket
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The assassination of the most powerful leader in the free world is examined in this controversial mockumentary from British filmmaker Gabriel Range. Years after the assassination of President George W. Bush in Chicago, an investigative documentary examines that as-yet-unsolved crime.
51) Angel has fallen
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When there is an assassination attempt on US President Allan Trumbull, his trusted confidant, Secret Service Agent Mike Banning, is wrongfully accused and taken into custody. After escaping from capture, he becomes a man on the run and must evade his own agency and outsmart the FBI in order to find the real threat to the president. Desperate to uncover the truth, Banning turns to unlikely allies to help clear his name, keep his family from harm, and...
Author
Publisher
Crown Forum
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Since publication of his bestselling book In the President's Secret Service, investigative reporter Ronald Kessler has continued to penetrate the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, breaking the story that Secret Service agents who were to protect President Obama hired prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia and revealing that the Secret Service allowed a third uninvited guest to crash a White House state dinner. Now, Kessler presents...
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Pub
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Contains forty-one illustrated essays that examine the dominant themes and achievements of each American presidency, from George Washington to Bill Clinton, with brief histories of the presidential election campaigns, voting statistics, and the complete texts of all the inaugural addresses.
55) Yeltsin: a life
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Even after his death in April 2007, Boris Yeltsin remains the most controversial figure in recent Russian history. Although Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the decline of the Communist party and the withdrawal of Soviet control over eastern Europe, it was Yeltsin-Russia's first elected president-who buried the Soviet Union itself. Upon taking office, Yeltsin quickly embarked on a sweeping makeover of newly democratic Russia, beginning with a program...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A biography of Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson, drawing from conversations with the former First Lady, as well as interviews with family members, friends, and advisers to discuss her childhood, her business sense, and her role in her husband's life and political career.
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
During his remarkable lifetime, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) served his country in many capacities-among them, as President of the United States. But ultimately, this great and talented man-an accomplished architect, naturalist, and linguist-wished to be remembered primarily as the author of the Declaration of Independence. In his autobiography, begun in 1821 at the age of 77, Jefferson presents a detailed account of his young life and the period...
Author
Publisher
Fall River Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The speeches collected in this volume—one or more for each of the forty-six elected American presidents—are historical documents. The subjects that they address, however, are perennial themes that define our democracy and that recur in various forms with each new administration’s legislation: state laws versus federal laws, the guarantee of the individual citizen’s right to vote in free and fair elections, the separation of church and state,...
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