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By Thomas J. Fleming. 2007
Focuses on the time period immediately after the 1781 American victory at Yorktown until the 1783 final treaty. Highlights the…
British, French, and colonial statesmen involved in peace negotiations. Posits that George Washington's renunciation of absolute power to become a private citizen was the pivotal affirmation of democracy. 2007By Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner. 2006
Autobiography of the manager of the hotel Mille Collines in Kigali, Rwanda. Paul Rusesabagina, a man of mixed Hutu and…
Tutsi heritage, describes how in April 1994 he saved twelve hundred Rwandans from the genocide that slaughtered eight hundred thousand. Basis for Hotel Rwanda movie. Violence and strong language. 2006By Robert H. Patton. 2008
Details America's maritime conflicts with the British during the Revolutionary War that consisted primarily of commissioned private American vessels attacking…
enemy ships. Describes the huge profits the privateer owners made from their wartime activities and discusses the ways their newfound wealth propelled the nation's entrepreneurialism. 2008By Barack Obama. 2006
By Aldous Huxley. 2000
Series of essays in which the author examines various threats to human freedom predicted in his 1930s satirical novel Brave…
New World (DB 47108). Discusses overpopulation, government propaganda, brainwashing, chemically induced as well as subconsciously suggested persuasion, and education, along with possible countermeasures. 1958By James Lovelock. 2006
British scientist who originated the Gaia hypothesis that Earth is a superorganism assesses the impact of human activity on the…
planet. Lovelock supports a transition to nuclear energy and advocates preparation for inevitable climate and social changes in the twenty-first century as a result of global warming. 2006By Karen DeYoung. 2006
Washington Post reporter interviews retired general Colin Powell to chronicle his rise from a son of Jamaican immigrants to U.S.…
Secretary of State. Highlights his army life that culminated with his role as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and explains his decision not to run for president. 2006Eight essays written between 1774 and 1776 by American political philosopher and patriot Thomas Paine (1737-1809). Includes Thoughts on Defensive…
War, The American Crisis, Number 1, and Common Sense, a treatise advocating America's moral obligation for independence. Contains an introduction, biographical information, and detailed analysis of selected writings. 2001By Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Sarah Thomson. 2006
Award-winning journalist Relin describes the mission of American humanitarian Greg Mortenson, who established the Central Asia Institute and built schools…
throughout Taliban-ruled lands. Discusses his childhood in Tanzania and a failed 1993 attempt to climb K2, which resulted in a promise to the Pakistani villagers who saved his life. 2006By Robert V. Remini. 2008
Historian chronicles the development of the United States from settlement of the land by nomads during the Ice Age to…
early-twenty-first-century civilization. Discusses the discovery of the New World by Europeans, the founding of the republic, and foreign and civil wars. Highlights the evolution of democratic principles. 2008By Bob Woodward. 2006
This sequel to Plan of Attack (RC 58239) examines the Bush administration's prosecution of the Iraq war. Extensive interviews and…
research document the dissension inside the White House from December 2000, when Donald Rumsfeld was appointed secretary of defense, through July 2006. Bestseller. 2006By Edward M. Kennedy. 2009
Autobiography of the Democratic senator from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy (1932-2009). Reminisces about his family, childhood, education, marriages, and five decades…
in politics. Discusses the assassinations of his brothers John and Bobby, the 1969 car accident at Chappaquiddick, and his battle with terminal brain cancer. Bestseller. 2009Washington Post correspondent explores the health-care systems of France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Canada and suggests borrowing from…
their practices to reform the U.S. system. Discusses the declining state of medical services in the United States and addresses the issue of universal coverage. Bestseller. 2009By André Pratte. 2003
"André Pratte a tenu, d'octobre 2002 à avril 2003, le journal de la longue campagne électorale que le Québec vient…
de connaître. Observateur privilégié de la scène politique - et de ses coulisses -, il rend compte au jour le jour des assemblées électorales et des débats télévisés, des sondages étonnants et des défections inattendues, des coups de théâtre et des pétards mouillés, de toute cette fébrilité qui agite les partis politiques. Il témoigne du côté humain de ceux et celles qui ont été happés dans ce tourbillon. Et il cherche à comprendre la tempête qui est survenue : quel sens doit-on donner aux résultats du scrutin du 14 avril? Les Québécois se sont-ils laissé porter par tous les vents ou ont-ils su garder le cap? Qui ont été les girouettes, finalement, les électeurs ou les experts patentés qui les observaient?" -- 4e de couvTraces the life of twenty-one-year-old Romanian Attila Ambrus, who in 1988 sneaked into post-Communist Hungary and joined a professional ice…
hockey team. Details seven years he spent robbing banks, romancing women, and boozing. Describes the Budapest detective on his trail--who had learned crime solving from American TV. Strong language. 2004By Stephen Budiansky. 2005
Biography of the Puritan secretary of the Privy Council, who oversaw espionage for British monarch Elizabeth I. Describes ways Walsingham…
perfected techniques to operate secretly against Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Catholic countries of France and Spain. Explains his use of code breaking and secret agents. Violence. 2005By Colin L Powell. 1995
Powell shares with his fellow Americans what he believes has been a great life. The son of immigrants, he was…
raised in New York's South Bronx and was undistinguished in school. But he found his place in life when he joined the ROTC and the army. Powell's is a story of hard work and good luck, of service, and of love from and for the people who helped make the former general and Joint Chiefs chairman a popular figure in the 1990s. Bestseller. 1995By Suzanne E Evans. 2004
Lawyer and journalist details Germany's "euthanasia" programs of 1935 to 1945, in which as many as 750,000 children and adults…
with physical and mental disabilities were killed. Draws on historical records and survivor interviews to describe Nazi medical philosophies, sterilization laws, methods, and organizers--and the legacy of the atrocities. 2004By Tom Wicker. 2006
Journalist offers a concise political biography of anticommunist demagog Senator Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957). Describes how McCarthy's accusations exploited Cold War…
tensions and bolstered his rise to power but ultimately caused his downfall in 1954 Senate hearings. 2006Traces Sandra Day O'Connor's rise to power culminating in her appointment by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 to be the…
first female Supreme Court justice. Analyzes O'Connor's position on controversial issues such as abortion, affirmative action, and the death penalty. Discusses her role as a pivotal voter. 2005