Lawrence Roberts
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English
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A vivid account of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history, in Richard Nixon's Washington
They surged into Washington by the tens of thousands in the spring of 1971. Fiery radicals, flower children, and militant vets gathered for the most audacious act in a years-long movement to end America's war in Vietnam: a blockade of the nation's capital. And the White House, headed by an increasingly paranoid Richard Nixon, was determined...
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Physical Desc
xxx, 416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"A vivid account of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history, in Richard Nixon's Washington"--
1971. Fiery radicals, flower children, and militant vets gathered for the most audacious act in a years-long movement to end America's war in Vietnam: a blockade of the nation's capital. The White House, headed by an increasingly paranoid Richard Nixon, was determined to stop it. Roberts, drawing on interviews, archives, and newfound White House...
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1 videodisc (2 hr., 13 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 chapter index card
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English
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"Robert Redford stars in this action drama as General Irwin, a respected three-star tactician whose career ends in disgrace when he's court martialed and sent to The Castle, a maximum security military prison. Irwin quickly butts heads with the facility's autocratic warden, Colonel Winter (James Gandolfini), who runs his command with an iron fist, even killing prisoners when he deems it necessary. Irwin rallies his fellow convicts into a rag-tag army...
5) Clueless
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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15-year-old Cher, the matchmaking Beverly Hills High schooler, has shopping and boys on her mind. She leads a hectic lifestyle but keeps it all together until she starts to fall in love and finds she's 'clueless'. A loose adaptation of Emma, Jane Austen's 19th-century comedy of manners.