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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
From the Founding to today, this book tells the stories of seven former presidents who each changed history and offered lessons about how to decide what to do in the next chapter of life as they handled human problems of ego, finances and questions about their legacy and mortality.
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"There's a story about President Thomas Jefferson that says that, while visiting France, he tried macaroni and cheese for the first time. The story says that he was the first person to introduce the dish to America. However, that's a myth! Jefferson achieved many things-including doubling the size of the country and establishing the Lewis and Clark expedition-but some of the stories surrounding him are false. Readers are sure to be drawn in by facts...
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"America's 18th president was, and still is, well known for his efforts leading the North to victory during the American Civil War. But many stories surrounding Grant aren't actually true. For example, is it true that Grant was arrested for speeding in a horse-drawn carriage? Is it true that his middle name is actually Simpson? Readers will find the answers to these questions inside this detailed guide to Grant's life. The at-level text is paired...
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"There's a common myth that says Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. president, wrote the Gettysburg Address on the back of an envelope while on a trip by train. Although that makes for a good story, it's just a story! Readers will discover other myths about Lincoln, but more importantly, they will learn the facts about his time in the White House. Primary sources of Lincoln and his era help readers make connections to the text, and a timeline of Lincoln's...
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Many people today know that the story about George Washington cutting down a cherry tree as a child is just that-a story. However, did you know that Washington was a dedicated breeder of hunting dogs? In fact, he is credited with creating the American foxhound breed. That's true! Thanks to this guide to the first U.S. president, readers will come to have a greater understanding of Washington and efforts he led to create a new country. They'll also...
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"On June 26, 1963, President John F. Kennedy made a speech to the German people in Berlin. He famously said, "Ich bin ein Berliner," which translates to "I am a Berliner" (someone from Berlin). However, future sources, including newspapers, sometimes considered the quote a blunder, as it could be confused for, "I am a jelly doughnut!" Inside this volume, readers will learn more about this historic event and the myth that arose from it. They will also...
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"There's a famous photograph of a smiling Theodore Roosevelt riding a moose through a river. However, the photograph is an example of early photo editing-long before Photoshop! Many of the stories surrounding the life of Roosevelt are larger than life, and some of them are actually true. Inside this book, readers will discover the amazing stories-both true and untrue-attached to America's 26th president, from his role in the "Rough Riders" during...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Our presidents loom so large in history that we often forget they are human. Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making? is a collection of handwritten love letters that offers a surprising and intimate portrait of the men who occupied the White House. From George Washington to Barack Obama, these are not the presidents we see in history books. Instead, when they courted the women they wanted to marry, or seduced women outside of their marriage,...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Even in the fast and loose world of the Trump White House, the idea that a couple thousand disorganized protestors storming the U.S. Capitol might actually prevent a presidential succession was farfetched. Yet perfectly legal ways of overturning election results actually do exist, and they would allow a political party to install its own candidate in place of the true winner. Lawrence Lessig and Matthew Seligman work through every option available...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The inside story of Biden's foreign policy team and their struggle to restore America's global influence in the aftermath of Trump. When Joe Biden assumed the United States presidency, he brought with him a team of all-star talent, perhaps the most experienced ensemble of policy experts in modern U.S. history. Their mission: repair America's damaged reputation abroad and decide the course of its global future. The challenges and risks could not have...
Author
Language
English
Description
"On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. ...[An] account of the chaotic...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From the moment she first enchanted the world as a youthful princess, Queen Elizabeth II found a unique place in American hearts-and she also played an unprecedented role in forging transatlantic ties. Over her seventy-year reign, she developed extraordinary and varied personal bonds with thirteen U.S. presidents-Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, both Bush Sr. and Jr., Clinton, Obama, Trump, and Biden-that other diplomats...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Crisis has a way of laying bare our truest selves: who we trust, which principles and impulses we heed, whose lives we deem expendable. As it ravaged millions of lives, the Covid-19 pandemic revealed and accentuated the dividing lines that had already, for decades, splintered American public life. Against the backdrop of the 2020 presidential election, misinformation regimes, and the transformation of the facemask into a flagrant political symbol,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The defining moment of Hubert Humphrey's life occurred on the evening of August 29, 1968, as he rose to accept the nomination as Democratic candidate for president at the International Amphitheater in Chicago. As Humphrey recited what he hoped would be healing verses from St. Francis--"where there is hate, let me sow love"--a contingent of National Guardsman began firing tear gas at thousands of demonstrators outside. "The whole world is watching,"...
Author
Publisher
Twelve, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In Find Me the Votes, two years of immersive reporting by Isikoff and Klaidman has produced the most authoritative and dramatic account yet of a defeated president's conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election and how a local Georgia prosecutor--a daughter of the civil rights movement--decided to indict him and his allies for his desperate attempt to hold on to power. From the beginning, Fani Willis saw Donald Trump's crimes as a voting rights case,...
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