Filter By Subjects
Buttigieg, Pete 1982- Legislators United States Biography Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Politics and government Presidents United States Biography United States United States Politics and government 1945-1989 United States Politics and government 1981-1989 United States Politics and government 1989- United States Social conditions 1980-Filter By Subjects
Buttigieg, Pete 1982- Legislators United States Biography Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Politics and government Presidents United States Biography United States United States Politics and government 1945-1989 United States Politics and government 1981-1989 United States Politics and government 1989- United States Social conditions 1980-Brill, Steven
Summary: "From the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of America's Bitter Pill: a tour de force examination of 1) how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few, and 2) how some individuals and organizations are laying the foundation for real, lasting change. In this revelatory narrative...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 Brill 2018Hamilton, Nigel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2010
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.009 HamilKruse, Kevin Michael
Summary: "Two award-winning historians explore the origins of a divided America. In the middle of the 1970s, America entered a new era of doubt and division. Major political, economic, and social crises--Watergate, Vietnam, the rights revolutions of the 1960s--had cracked the existing social order. In the years that followed, the story of our own lifetimes would be written. Longstanding historical fault...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 Kruse 2019Barr, William Pelham
Summary: "William Barr's first tenure as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush was largely the result of chance, while his second tenure under President Donald Trump a deliberate and difficult choice. In this candid memoir, Barr takes readers behind the scenes during seminal moments of the 1990s, from the LA riots to Pan Am 103 and Iran Contra. Thirty years later, Barr faced an unrelenting...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BarrMeacham, Jon.
Summary: "In this brilliant biography, Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. Drawing on President Bush's personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the forty-first president and his family, Meacham paints an intimate and surprising portrait of an intensely private man who led the nation through...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.928 MeachBiden, Joseph R.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BidBoehner, John
Summary: The former Speaker of the House shares candid tales from Washington, D.C.'s halls of power, offering insight into America's Republican Party and the leadership successes and failures of presidents from the past half century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BoehnerPacker, George
Contents: Part I -- 1978 -- Dean Price -- Total War : Newt Gingrich -- Jeff Connaughton -- 1984 -- Tammy Thomas -- Her Own : Oprah Winfrey -- 1987 -- Jeff Connaughton -- Dean Price -- Mr. Sam : Sam Walton -- 1994 -- Jeff Connaughton -- Tammy Thomas -- Just Business : Jay-Z -- Silicon Valley -- 1999 -- Biography : Alice Waters -- Dean Price -- Tammy Thomas -- 2003 -- Institution Man (1) : Colin Powell --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 PackerBush, George W. (George Walker)
Summary: George W. Bush covers the entire scope of the elder President Bush's life and career, including his service in the Pacific during World War II, his pioneering work in the Texas oil business, and his political rise as a Congressman, U.S. Representative to China and the United Nations, CIA Director, Vice President, and 41st President of the United States.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.928 BushBlumenthal, Max
Summary: THE MANAGEMENT OF SAVAGERY excavates the real story behind America's dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs of a national security state. Washington's secret funding of the Mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. With guns and money, the United States...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2019
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.7305 BlumeKleinknecht, William
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2009
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.927 KleinRappaport, Doreen.
Summary: A biography of Eleanor Roosevelt, the most socially and politically active -- and controversial -- First Lady America had ever seen. Ambassador, activist, and champion of civil rights, Eleanor Roosevelt changed the soul of America forever. Includes selected quotes from Eleanor's own writings.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion Books 2009
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 921 RoosReagan, Ronald.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2007
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ReaKalt, Brian C.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2001
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MC 977.463 KaltMatthews, Christopher
Summary: Overlooked by his father, and overshadowed by his war-hero brother, Bobby Kennedy was the perpetual underdog. When he had the chance to become a naval officer like Jack, Bobby turned it down, choosing instead to join the Navy as a common sailor. It was a life changing experience that led him to connect with voters from all walks of life: young or old, black or white, rich or poor. They were the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.922 MATT 2017O'Reilly, Bill.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.927 O'ReillyGoodwin, Doris Kearns
Summary: "In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.09 Good 2018Goodwin, Doris Kearns
Summary: "Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. In his twenties, Dick was one of the brilliant young men of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier. In his thirties he both named and helped design Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and was a speechwriter and close advisor to Robert Kennedy. Doris Kearns was a twenty-four-year-old graduate student when...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster, Incorporated 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Meacham, Jon
Summary: "A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions inextricably bound up with money, power, race, identity, and faith. He was hated and hailed, excoriated and revered. In Lincoln we can see the possibilities of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 MeachamButtigieg, Pete
Summary: Once described by the Washington Post as "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of," Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-six-year-old Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has improbably emerged as one of the nation's most visionary politicians. First elected in 2011, Buttigieg left a successful business career to move back to his hometown, previously tagged by Newsweek as a "dying city,"...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2019
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 Buttigieg 2019Cruz, Ted
Summary: "The Democratic Party is now controlled by Cultural Marxists. So are our universities and public schools, the media, Big Tech, and Big Business. Corporations push transgenderism down their customers' throats. Banks punish gun shops. Hollywood insults our religious beliefs and grooms our children. The big investment companies use our retirement savings to promote leftist causes. And the Biden...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023