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Hiring a health aide to give her the support and independence she needs after hip replacement surgery, DC philanthropist and Senator’s wife Sloane Chase, as weeks go by and she becomes sicker, suspects her seemingly perfect employee is plotting to steal her husband, her reputation and even her life.
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Yale University Press
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[2024].
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English
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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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2023.
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English
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From the dogged Long Island reporter who has been on his trail since 2019, the bizarre, page-turning, and frankly hysterical story of America’s most outrageous grifter—former US Representative George Santos. America has grown used to larger-than-life politicians. Yet in 2022, a new player on the national scene outshone them all. George Anthony Devolder Santos, and his revolving door of pseudonyms, shed glaring new light on how far we’d all let...
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2023.
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English
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The House Republican leader who dared to take a stand against the January 6th insurrection, which she witnessed first-hand, and then helped lead the ensuing investigation, tells the story of this perilous moment in our history, the betrayal of the American people and the Constitution and the risks we still face.
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Penguin Workshop
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2023.
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English
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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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University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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This is a biography of Harold E. Hughes, a man of working-class origins who overcame severe alcoholism to become Iowa governor (1963-1969) and U.S. Senator (1969-1974). A Democrat in traditionally Republican Iowa, he helped transform Iowa into a competitive two-party state. As governor, he reformed state government. As senator, he was an outspoken leader against the Vietnam War. He launched the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism with...
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