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41) Bobby
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Revisits the night presidential-hopeful Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in June 1968. Tells the stories of a variety of people present on that fateful night, ranging from Kennedy's campaign staff and volunteers to the hotel owner, employees such as kitchen staff, and various guests
Author
Publisher
Blair House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When newspaper reporter Beck Rikki receives an unsolicited call from a high-ranking government official sending him off to investigate a candidate for President of the United States, he doesn't realize he's stumbled onto the story of a lifetime. As he digs deeper, he follows a trail of murder, bribery, infidelity and deceit that runs from Canada to the Caribbean--but all signs point to the White House. Beck finds nothing is quite as it appears--not...
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 24
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a bright Saturday afternoon on the Washington Mall, the daughter of presidential candidate Robert Colgate's closest friend is kidnapped. The abduction rocks the nation's capital, but no one is prepared for the bombshell about to hit the city, an explosive development that erupts when Detectives Hall and Jackson uncover a shocking connection between the kidnapping and the murder of a Washington, D.C. call girl--and a killer whom no one will see...
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Features interviews with politicians, public officials, thought leaders, writers, artists, and activists in an attempt to discover the obstacles that have held women back and what needs to change in order to elect a woman into the White House"--Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The wife of former Vice President and presidential candidate Joe Biden recounts his childhood in Scranton, Pennsylvania, his perseverance and leadership from his earliest years, his struggles to overcome stuttering, his relationships with his family, and his political career.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A Bolivian presidential candidate failing badly in the polls enlists the firepower of an elite American management team, led by the deeply damaged but still brilliant strategist 'Calamity' Jane Bodine. In self-imposed retirement following a scandal that earned her nickname and rocked her to her core, Jane is coaxed back into the game for the chance to beat her professional nemesis, the loathsome Pat Candy, now coaching the opposition.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Ralph Nader is one of America's most passionate and effective social critics. He has been called a muckraker, a consumer crusader, and America's public defender. The cars we drive, the food we eat, the water we drink-their safety has been enhanced largely due to Ralph Nader. His inspiration and example have rallied consumer advocates, citizen activists, public interest lawyers, and government officials into action, and in the 2000 election, nearly...
51) Head of state
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
When a presidential candidate is needed just a few weeks before the election, Washington picks Mays Gilliam, a powerless politician they plan to use as their puppet, certain that he will lose. Buy Mays won't go down that easy. If he is going to run, he is going to do it his way and have fun doing it that way as well
Author
Series
Op-center volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
When Op-Center's budget is cut, General Mike Rodgers is offered a job by Senator Donald Orr, who, making a run for president as the head of his own third party, needs a military advisor, but his new position comes with a high price - murder.
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an Imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This book is about the presidency and the woman who--whoever she is!--will eventually hold the title Madame President and occupy the Oval Office. It's about the road that female candidates have traveled with the goal of getting there. It's a story about me--a woman who got to see, up close, more of them strive for the Oval Office at one time than ever before and who innately understood the invisible forces that, oftentimes, worked against them. It's...
Author
Publisher
Triumph Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Photojournalist Pete Souza documents the meteoric rise of the charismatic Barack Obama from his first day in the U.S. Senate up to the Pennsylvania presidential primary. Souza, who also accompanied the senator to seven countries including Kenya, South Africa, and Russia, had access to photograph the senator and presidential candidate in private and public moments during Obama's rise to political stardom. Most of these have not been seen before. Souza...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Uncle Buck: Uncle Buck has a reputation for being unreliable and a bit of a house wrecker. It is therefore with reluctance, his sister-in-law agrees to leave Buck looking after her three kids - two harmless youngsters and a rebelious teenager - while she visits her sick father
The great outdoors: Chet is a family man who has brought his family to a lakeside resort area. His wife and kids aren't quite as excited as he is. His optimism is sabotaged...
Author
Publisher
ReganBooks
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Now, for the first time, Fox News political analyst and former Clinton adviser Dick Morris turns his sharp-eyed gaze on Hillary, the longtime First Lady, current New York senator, and bestselling author. For, as he argues, no politician in America today is better aligned to become president in 2008-and none would bring more baggage to the White House-than Mrs. Clinton. In Rewriting History, Morris draws on his own long working relationship with the...
59) The front runner
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This is the true story of Gary Hart, the former Colorado senator who quickly rose to the top of the pack as the number one contender for the 1987 Democratic presidential primary. Due to his charisma and drive, Hart connects well with the younger constituents, and both himself and his aides see this a clear and present path to victory. But allegations soon emerge of an extramarital affair, and Hart is forced to deal with the impact that these new allegations...
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Jesse Jackson is a modern day highway robber, says veteran investigative reporter Kenneth R. Timmerman, who uses cries of racism to steal from individuals, corporations, and government, to give to himself. Until now, however, no one has been brave enough to say it and diligent enough to prove it. But Ken Timmerman has cracked Jackson's machine, found Jackson cronies willing to break ranks, and uncovered a sordid tale of greed, ambition, and corruption...
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