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Publisher
USA Today
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"Americans from across the county are heading to Washington, D.C., to be a witness to history. USA TODAY video journalists follow a number of unique stories to create a rich documentary as Barack Obama takes the oath of office to become the 44th president of the United States. The documentary includes perspectives form civil rights leaders, historians and USA TODAY experts to provide context to this historic day."--Container.
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Language
English
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Description
What is the guiding principle of the world's most powerful nation as it searches for enemies at home and abroad? Who is actually running U.S. foreign policy? The story begins on September 12, 2001, as America began to gather itself for a response to the unimaginable. Journalist Suskind tells us what actually occurred over the next three years, from the inside out, by tracing the steps of the key actors who oversee the "war on terror" and report progress...
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Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
In this political memoir, Cheney, who served as a top campaign aide to her father, the vice president, presents a behind-the-scenes look at the high-intensity world of presidential politics and talks for the first time about her life, her family, and her role in the campaigns of 2000 and 2004. As a senior adviser to her father, she was in the middle of every major event of the 2000 and 2004 presidential contests--at the conventions, the debates, and...
Publisher
Distributed by] Trinity Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
"Fahrenhype 9/11 exposes the fallacies and misrepresentations in Michael Moore's methods. See how Moore deceived America by editing footage to promote his political agenda. Learn the truth about Fahrenheit 9/11, and how Michael Moore lied to America about it."--Container.
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Language
English
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Description
In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. Radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of chaos and fear, but the key players, Vice President Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, used the crisis to further a long-held agenda to enhance presidential powers to a degree never known in U.S. history, and...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Threshold Editions hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
The media-savvy political strategist defines "compassionate conservatism," defends himself against accusations levied by his opponents, corrects many myths about him, and offers insights into what it takes to win an election.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
Former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power, and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader. Mr. Comey served as director of the FBI from 2013 to 2017,...
31) Fahrenheit 9/11
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
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Description
Through actual footage, interviews, and declassified documents, Michael Moore illustrates the connections President Bush has to the royal house of Saud of Saudia Arabia and the bin Laden's, how the president got elected on fraudulent circumstances and then proceeded to blunder through his duties while ignoring warnings of the looming betrayal by his foreign partners. When the treachery hits with the 9/11 attacks, Moore explains how Bush failed to...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the former secretary of defense, a candid account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House in 2006, he thought he'd left Washington politics behind: after working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happy in his role as president of Texas A & M University. But when he was asked...
34) Vice
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Christian Bale stars as Dick Cheney in this epic tale of how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world. Co-starring Amy Adams, Steve Carell, and Sam Rockwell, it is a darkly comic look behind the scenes of American politics.
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Presents high school students with multiple points of view on the Terrorist Attack of September 11, 2001, with an emphasis on non-U.S. perspectives, offering basic historical information about this significant event, examining the controversies surrounding it and providing first-person narratives from people who lived through or were impacted by the attack.
37) The new American revolution: using the power of the individual to save our nation from extremists
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Author Tammy Bruce explores the shift in American attitudes since the tragedy of September 11, presenting her views on how the new tools for today's patriot include American Nationalism, individualism, gun ownership, the tearing down of liberal institutions, personal activism, and more.
Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a high-ranking Egyptian army officer who grew up in Cairo and Gaza comments on the reasons Muslims embrace jihad, hate Jews, oppose America, and believe in the destruction of Israel; and provides her opinion concerning the necessity of the War on Terror.
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