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"An extraordinary view into the politics of our times, Tired of Winning explores how Donald Trump remade the Republican Party in his own image--and the wreckage he's left in his wake. Packed with new reporting, Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party tracks Trump's improbable journey from disgraced and defeated former president to the dominant force, yet again, in the Republican Party. From his exile in Mar-a-Lago, Donald...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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When Chris's best friend Annie loses her husband, Chris derives a scheme to memorialize him. The two women, along with some of their friends (all fifty-something women) will make a nude calendar to raise money for the hospital where he died. The calendar becomes hugely popular. Based on a true story.
4) Big miracle
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Inspired by the true story, tells the amazing tale of a small town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer who are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family of majestic gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle.
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English
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"The last year of the Nixon presidency was filled with power politics, legal jiu-jitsu and high-stakes showdowns, with head-shaking surprises every day. Tom Brokaw, the NBC News White House correspondent during the final year of Watergate, gives us a close-up, personal account of the players, the strategies, and the highs and lows of the scandal that brought down a president. Brokaw writes, 'Even now, almost half a century later, I am astonished by...
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English
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Kim Barker is not your typical, impassive foreign correspondent — she is candid, self-deprecating, laugh-out-loud funny. At first an awkward newbie in Afghanistan, she grows into a wisecracking, seasoned reporter with grave concerns about our ability to win hearts and minds in the region. In The Taliban Shuffle, Barker offers an insider’s account of the “forgotten war” in Afghanistan and Pakistan, chronicling the years after America’s initial...
9) Outrage
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Reveals politicians who lobby for anti-gay legislation while leading secret lives, the double standards the media sets for these politicians, and the harm inflicted. Includes analysis from Congressman Barney Frank, former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey, activist Larry Kramer, and others.
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xvii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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"One spent 23 days in captivity. Another jumped off planes to get the perfect aerial shot. The other reported from war-torn slums and villages. Catherine Leroy, Frankie Fitzgerald and Kate Webb were the first female frontline journalists in the history of US war reporting. Over the course of the Vietnam War they challenged the rules and expectations imposed on them, all in an effort to get the story right. Using the stories of Catherine, Frankie and...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"An eyewitness account of [what many see as] Donald Trump's clown car of lieutenants and lackeys who have polluted the corridors of power with their unprecedented awfulness. Two of Washington's most meddlesome reporters take readers on a deep dive into the murky underworld of President Trump's Washington, dishing the ... dirt on [those they view as] the charlatans, conspiracy theorists, ideologues, and run-of-the-mill con artists who have infected...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
520 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An investigative journalist chronicles his twenty-year obsession with the 1969 Manson murders and describes how he discovered evidence of a cover-up, carelessness from police, misconduct by prosecutors, and potential surveillance by intelligence agents.
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
450 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1941, when German armies were marching towards Moscow, Lenin's body was moved from his tomb on Red Square and taken to Siberia. By 1945, a victorious Stalin had turned a poor country into a victorious superpower. Over the course of those four years, Stalin, at Churchill's insistence, accepted an Anglo-American press corps in Moscow to cover the Eastern Front. To turn these reporters into Kremlin mouthpieces, Stalin imposed the most draconian controls--unbending...
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
viii, 548 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in 2013, after nearly a dozen years leading The Boston Globe. Just seven months into his new job, Baron received explosive news: Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, would buy the Post, marking a sudden end to control by the venerated family that had presided over the paper for 80 years. Just over two years later, Donald Trump won the presidency. Now, the capital's newspaper, owned by one of the...
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