Douglas Brinkley
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The famous-- and infamous-- Nixon White House tapes that reveal for the first time President Richard Nixon uncensored, unfiltered, and in his own words. [His] voice-activated taping system captured every word spoken in the Oval Office, Cabinet Room, and other key locations in the White House, and at Camp David-- 3,700 hours of recordings between 1971 and 1973. Yet less than 5 percent of those conversations have ever been transcribed and published....
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A selection of transcribed audio recordings from 1973 covers Nixon and Kissinger's private knowledge of flaws in the 1973 Vietnam peace agreement and the early warnings about the Yom Kippur War in the Middle East, "--Novelist.
Publisher
Wellspring
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed director George Butler takes an inside look at Senator John Kerry's tour of duty in Vietnam, his contributions to the peace movement that followed, and how these experiences came to shape his future political career. Based on 'Tour of Duty'.
Author
Publisher
Bulfinch
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Voices of Courage: The Battle for Khe Sanh, Vietnam" tells the story of one of the most heroic efforts in American military history--a seventy-seven-day struggle in early 1968 for the remote Khe Sanh Combat Base--during which six thousand perilously isolated Marines withstood the onslaught of a superior enemy force.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
In recent years the United Nations has become more active in - and more generally respected for - its peacekeeping efforts than at any other period in its fifty-year history. During the same period, the United States has been engaged in a debate about the place of the U.N. in the conduct of its foreign policy. This book, the first account of the American role in creating the United Nations, tells an engrossing story and also provides a useful historical...
50) City hall
Author
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"City Hall is the first book to feature striking contemporary images of the most architecturally significant city halls in the United States. This diverse collection includes New York, the oldest; Philadelphia, once the tallest building in the world; and Boston, the first major brutalist building in the United States. Organized chronologically, the book traces the evolution of American civic architecture from the early 19th century to the present...
Author
Publisher
Melcher Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Packed with exclusive photojournalism and new revelations straight from the front lines, Unprecedented: The Election That Changed Everything chronicles the most hard- fought and newsworthy election of our time. The book tells the full story of the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, as a Republican field of seventeen candidates battled it out until one remained: a blustery billionaire and reality TV star with no respect for the rules of politics and...
Publisher
Dorgan Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"This is the exciting story of a physically challenged young man from Harvard who came to the Western frontier in 1883. Theodore Roosevelt bought a ranch, learned how to ride, shoot, hunt and acquired the skills that would make him a war hero and American President. It was in the Badlands of Dakota where the young Roosevelt became a cowboy and learned about democracy and the American West. " -- container
Publisher
Vision Video
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Examines the bond that developed between Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan after both their lives were nearly ended by assassins, and the belief both shared that they were spared to bring about the downfall of communism." --
58) Five easy pieces
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Presently working in an oil field, talented pianist Robert Dupea spends most of his free time downing beers, playing poker and being noncommittal with his sexy but witless girlfriend Rayette. But when he is summoned to his father's deathbed, Dupea returns home with Rayette, where he meets and falls for a sophisticated woman. Now caught between his conflicting lifestyles, the gifted but troubled Dupea must face issues that will change his life forever."...
