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5) Barack Obama
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of Barack Obama for beginning readers.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency--a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
An insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration. From the moment John Roberts, the Chief Justice of the United States, flubbed the Oath of Office at Barack Obama's inauguration, the relationship between the Supreme Court and the White House has been confrontational. Both men are young, brilliant, charismatic, charming, determined to change the course of the nation--and completely...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Steyn argues that President Barack Obama is a dangerous radical who wants not only big government, but the Europeanization of the United States. He explains how citizens can roll back the liberal establishment and return to fundamental American values.
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Series
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
"Vice President Joe Biden is fresh out of the Obama White House and feeling adrift when his favorite railroad conductor dies in a suspicious accident, leaving behind an ailing wife and a trail of clues. To unravel the mystery, "Amtrak Joe" re-teams with the only man he's ever fully trusted--the 44th president of the United States. Together they'll plumb the darkest corners of Delaware, traveling from cheap motels to biker bars and beyond, as they...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Barack Obama’s lucid vision of America’s place in the world and call for a new kind of politics that builds upon our shared understandings as Americans, based on his years in the Senate
“In our lowdown, dispiriting era, Obama’s talent for proposing humane, sensible solutions with uplifting, elegant prose does fill one with hope.”—Michael...
“In our lowdown, dispiriting era, Obama’s talent for proposing humane, sensible solutions with uplifting, elegant prose does fill one with hope.”—Michael...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"'We were eight years in power' was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South. In this sweeping collection of new and selected essays, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates...
13) Inauguration Day
Author
Publisher
Spotlight
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Spider-Man has a series of adventures on the day of Barack Obama's inauguration as President of the United States.
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation"--Front flap.
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The author recounts how his exposure to the criminal underclass while serving time in a state-run confinement center opened his eyes to the ways in which the behavior and world view of those criminals resembled the politics of American liberalism.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The chief Washington correspondent of the New York Times offers a riveting insider's account describing the national security crises that will confront America's next president from a nuclear Iran to the lock up of Chinese oil supplies in Africa.