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"An intimate, news-making look at the men who are first in line to the most powerful office in the world--the vice presidents of the modern era--from Richard Nixon and LBJ to Dick Cheney, Joe Biden, and Mike Pence. Bestselling author Kate Andersen Brower took us inside the lives of the White House staff in The Residence. She followed that with an in-depth look at the modern first ladies in First Women. Now, in her signature style, she introduces us...
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2014.
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viii, 280 pages ; 25 cm
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"There is one thing that has haunted all of America's modern presidents: Americans' expectations of greatness in the man and the office. While it was impossible for the Framers of the Constitution to predict the circumstances that would make America the greatest and most consequential power on Earth, the Founders never intended this spotlight on the presidency. Venerating our past great presidents has always been safe, compelling, and inspiring. But...
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c2004
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xx, 164 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cm.
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Memoir of the author's early life in Gakowa, Yugoslavia, followed by the Russian occupation and then Serbian takeover of her village. The ethnic Germans were taken to labor camps in the Soviet Union or to concentration camps in Gakowa and Kruschiwl.
85) US carrier war
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2011
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v, 361 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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[2016]
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xxii, 453 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
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From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Greater Middle East. Since 1990, virtually no American soldiers have been killed in action anywhere else. What caused this shift? Andrew J. Bacevich, one of the country's most respected voices on foreign affairs, offers an incisive critical history of this ongoing military enterprise--now more than thirty years old and with no end in...
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c2009
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xxiii, 598 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Dancing in the Dark shows how our worst economic crisis, as it eroded American individualism and punctured the American dream, produced in the 1930s some of the greatest writing, photography, and mass entertainment ever seen in this country.
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[2018]
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x, 413 pages ; 25 cm
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"A vivid, surprising portrait of the civic and economic reinvention taking place in America, town by town and generally out of view of the national media. A realistically positive and provocative view of the country between its coasts. For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, they have met hundreds of civic leaders, workers, immigrants, educators,...
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Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump? Beyond economic and demographic decline, is there a more nuanced explanation for the growing rural-urban divide? Wuthnow brings us into America's small towns, farms, and rural communities so we can hear from farmers who want government out of their business, factory workers who believe in working hard to support their families, town managers who find the federal government unresponsive...
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2002
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240 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
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When Chief Gunner Hashiro Hayashi took dead aim on British Columbia's Estevan Point Lighthouse and wireless station on a June morning in 1942, the realities of war had come to North America. Sixty years later, the fascinating events of that era and their impact on both the Canadian and American psyches remain unknown to much of the world. After conducting decades of research and interviews with veterans on both sides of the conflict, author Brendan...
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"In this controversial and provocative book, Mary Anne Franks examines the thin line between constitutional fidelity and constitutional fundamentalism. The Cult of the Constitution reveals how deep fundamentalist strains in both conservative and liberal American thought keep the Constitution in the service of white male supremacy. Constitutional fundamentalists read the Constitution selectively and self-servingly. Fundamentalist interpretations of...
94) Marine trades area site, Port Angeles, Washington: final remedial investigation/feasibility study
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2013
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1 v. (various paging) + 1 CD-ROM.
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This Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS) report was prepared as a requirement of a 2005 Agreed Order No. DE 03TCPSR-5738 between the Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology), the Port of Port Angeles (Port), and Chevron USA, Inc. (Chevron) (the "RI/FS Parties"). The Marine Trades Area Site (MTA Site), located in Port Angeles, Washington...has had a long history of environmental investigations related to petroleum releases..."
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[2018]
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ix, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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"The creation of the Canada-US border in the Pacific Northwest is often presented as a tale of two nations and two ideologies, but beyond the macro-political dynamics is the experience of individuals. Before and After the State takes a multidisciplinary approach to examining the imposition of a border across a region that already held a vibrant, highly complex society and dynamic trading networks. It details the evolution of local, trading, and immigrant...
96) The Patriot Act
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c2006
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96 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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Examination of the USA Patriot Act, its measures, and its attendant controversies.
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2014.
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ix, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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"From an 'illuminating and entertaining' (The New York Times) historian comes the World War II story of two men whose remarkable lives improbably converged at the Tokyo war crimes trials of 1946. In the wake of World War II, the Allied forces charged twenty-eight Japanese men with crimes against humanity. Correspondents at the Tokyo trial thought the evidence fell most heavily on ten of the accused. In December 1948, five of these defendants were...
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c2008
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xii, 642 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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The civil rights movement that loomed over the 1950s and 1960s was the tip of an iceberg, the legal and political remnant of a broad, raucous, deeply American movement for social justice that flourished from the 1920s through the 1940s. This contentious mix of home-grown radicals, labor activists, newspaper editors, black workers, and intellectuals employed every strategy imaginable to take Dixie down, from a ludicrous attempt to organize black workers...
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c2004
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xxxviii, 508 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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The Northwest Coast of North America was home to dozens of Native peoples at the time of its first contact with Europeans. The rich artistic, ceremonial, and oral traditions of these peoples and their preservation of cultural practices have made this region especially attractive for anthropological study. Coming to Shore provides a historical overview of the ethnology and ethnohistory of this region, with special attention given to contemporary, theoretically...
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