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61) So help me God
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ix, 542 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"Mike Pence spent more hours in the Oval Office than any of his predecessors. On the surface, the affable evangelical Christian from a gas-station-owning family in Indiana wouldn't seem to have much in common with a brash real estate mogul from New York. But the unlikely duo formed a tight bond. Pence was at Donald Trump's side when he enacted historic tax relief, when he decided to take more assertive stances toward China and North Korea, and when...
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211 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
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"The Palace of the Governors, a National Historic Landmark, has stood on the Santa Fe Plaza since the early seventeenth century. This book is the first to offer a glimpse of the Palace of the Governors and New Mexico History Museum's vast collections of Spanish Colonial, Mexican, Territorial, and Twentieth and Twenty-First Century materials--including historic artifacts, photography, rare maps and books, a printing press, clothing, firearms, and other...
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355 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
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English
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Chronicles the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that created the Federal Reserve, tracing the financial panic and widespread distrust of bankers that prompted the landmark 1913 Federal Reserve Act and launched America's first steps onto the world financial stage.
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xv, 328 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Ross was a significant abolitionist, journalist, Union officer, and, eventually, territorial governor of New Mexico. This first full-scale biography of Ross reveals his importance in the history of the United States"--Provided by publisher.
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Neither left nor right wing, this startling examination of government exposes the systematic erosion of civil liberties in America since 1913 when the Federal Reserve system was created.
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xx, 438 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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Ben Franklin is the most lovable of America's founding fathers. His wit, his charm, his inventiveness -- even his grandfatherly appearance--are legendary. But this image obscures the scandals that dogged him throughout his life. In The Loyal Son, award-winning historian Daniel Mark Epstein throws the spotlight on one of the more enigmatic aspects of Franklin's biography: his complex and confounding relationship with his illegitimate son William. When...
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xi, 626 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"As Alexander Hamilton's star has risen, Thomas Jefferson's has fallen, largely owing to their divergent views on race. Once seen as the most influential American champion of liberty and democracy, Jefferson is now remembered largely for his relationship with his slave Sally Hemings, and for electing not to free her or most of the other people he owned. In this magisterial biography, the eminent scholar John B. Boles does not ignore the aspects of...
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viii, 262 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A revealing, dramatic, deeply personal book about the most significant events of our time, written by the former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley who is widely admired for her forthright manner ("With all due respect, I don't get confused"), her sensitive approach to tragic events, and her confident representation of America's interests as our Ambassador to the United Nations during times of crisis and consequence. In this...
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xiv, 610 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve, capping a meteoric trajectory from a rural South Carolina childhood to professorships at Stanford and Princeton, to public service in Washington's halls of power. There would be no time to celebrate, however -- the burst of the housing bubble in 2007 set off a domino effect that would bring the global financial system to the brink of meltdown. Here, Ben Bernanke pulls back the curtain...
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, Jennifer Chiaverini, reveals the famous First Lady's very public social and political contest with Kate Chase Sprague, memorialized as "one of the most remarkable women ever known to Washington society." (Providence Journal) Kate Chase Sprague was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of a devout but ambitious lawyer. Her father, Salmon P. Chase,...
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