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81) George W. Bush
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Provides an overview of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States.
83) First Kids
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses what life is like in the White House and presents anecdotes about the children of presidents Lincoln, Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Coolidge, Kennedy, Johnson, and Clinton.
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
In a May 1900 magazine article Theodore Roosevelt wrote, "What we have a right to expect of the American boy is that he shall turn out to be a good American man." Certainly this was a noble sentiment from a man who had every reason to believe that he was an exemplar of the "good American man." The president's first son and namesake would not turn thirteen until September of that year. Imagine life as Theodore Roosevelt Jr. A lesser man would have...
85) A charge to keep
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
In this political memoir, the governor of Texas and front-runner for president in the year 2000 tells us who he is and what he stands for. The George W. Bush who leaps off these pages has his father's energy, his mother's tart and honest wit, and his own irreverence and impatience. He has prospered as George and Barbara's boy -- "How can I deny it?" -- but has walked a very fine line between loyalty and independence. He addresses the questions that...
86) Honor reclaimed
Author
Series
Honor novels (Radclyffe) volume 5
Pub. Date
2006
Description
"In the chaotic aftermath of 9/11, Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts and her lover, first daughter Blair Powell, must contend with recrimination from within the government and danger from without as they struggle to uncover those who betrayed the nation and nearly claimed Blair's life. The hunt is a very personal quest for Cam, who fears that another strike on Blair is imminent. Her search takes her deep into the shadow world of counter-intelligence...
87) First family
Author
Series
King and Maxwell volume 4
Pub. Date
2009
Description
A daring kidnapping turns a children's birthday party at Camp David into a national security nightmare, pushing agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to their limits.
88) First daughter
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Samantha Mackenzie is a sheltered young woman who has everything she could possibly wish for and lives in a beautiful white house. The White House, that is. Samantha just wants a normal college experience away from the influence of her parents. Only trouble is, her dad is the President of the United States. Nothing will stop her, so, under Secret Service surveillance and the nonstop glare of the media, Samantha meets and falls for a handsome college...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
The story of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., a fortunate son who proved himself on the battlefields of two world wars. General Omar Bradley said of him, "I have never known a braver man or a more devoted soldier." But for much of his life, Theodore Roosevelt's son Ted seemed born to live in his father's shadow. With the same wide smile, winning charm, and vigorous demeanor, Ted possessed limitless potential, with even the White House within his reach. In...
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Formats
Description
Born into a political dynasty, Jenna and Barbara Bush grew up in the public eye. As small children, they watched their grandfather become president; just twelve years later they stood by their father's side when he took the same oath. They spent their college years watched over by Secret Service agents and became fodder for the tabloids, with teenage mistakes making national headlines. But the tabloids didn't tell the whole story. In SISTERS FIRST,...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
The Kennedys have captured the American imagination for 50 years. Now, former personal assistant and dear friend of John F. Kennedy, Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Terenzio has waited for more than a decade to share her unique, intimate, and extraordinary perspective of life behind the Kennedy curtain.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
A dual portrait of JFK, Jr. and Caroline Kennedy draws on personal interviews to discuss such topics as the assassination attempt on Jackie Kennedy while she was giving birth, Caroline's reclusive lifestyle, and the unsettling results of John's and his wife's autopsies.
93) First families
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Offers glimpses into the daily lives of presidents and their families, in a volume that describes the everyday White House experiences of the Lincolns, the Roosevelts, the Clintons, and other first families.
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
A descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings chronicles the relationship between Jefferson and his slave and the life of their son, Thomas Woodson, and discusses the Woodson family's efforts to uncover the truth about the different branches of their family tree.
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Description
When a teenage girl living with and working under her overbearing step-mother meets a boy online, she finds herself looking forward to finally meeting him at the school's Halloween dance ; when a young American girl finds out that her long lost father isa prominent political figure in England, she learns the skills necessary to survive in his lofty social environment, while getting to know the father she never knew ; separated for the first time,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"From the seed of historical truth that is the death of President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son Willie, George Saunders spins a story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm ... Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state--called, in the Tibetan tradition,...