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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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#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...
3) Barack Obama
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Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
Raymond Arsenault traces congressman John Lewis’s upbringing in rural Alabama, his activism as a Freedom Rider, his championing of voting rights and anti-poverty initiatives, and his decades of service as the “conscience of Congress.”
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Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
John Lewis began his activism alongside civil rights legend and good friend Martin Luther King Jr. He participated in many now-historic events, including the 1963 March on Washington, the Freedom Rides, and the Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. John continued his impactful career when he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1986. He went on to serve seventeen terms until his death in 2020. A recipient of the Presidential...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant and empowering collection of final reflections and words of wisdom from venerable civil rights champion, the late Congressman John Lewis at the end of his remarkable life. Congressman John Lewis was a paragon of the Civil Rights Movement and political leadership for decades. In his last months on earth, even while battling cancer, he dedicated time to share his memories, beliefs, and advice as a message to the generations to come.
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