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Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
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"Una celebraci̤n de AOC, la mujer m̀s joven en servir en el Congreso y su nueva superestrella. No hace mucho, nadie pod̕a imaginarse que una latina de veintiocho ąos se postulase para el Congreso en representaci̤n de Queens y el Bronx: era necesario enfrentarse a la maquinaria pol̕tica de la ciudad, casi exclusivamente blanca y exclusivamente masculina. Pero desde que Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez apareci̤ en la escena con toda su gloria, tweets...
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English
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"An honest, inspiring, and laugh-out-loud funny memoir about re-energizing our politics and standing up to corporate America-while carting three kids around in a minivan. Never having run for office before, Katie Porter charted a new path in 2018 when she was elected to Congress as a Democrat in historically conservative Orange County, California. Underestimated as a single mom and chided for her progressive values, Katie defied expectations. Then,...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
For more than fifty years, Bella Abzug championed the powerless and disenfranchised, as an activist, congresswoman, and leader in every major social initiative of her time--from Zionism and labor in the 40s to the ban-the-bomb efforts in the 50s, to civil rights and the anti-Vietnam War movements of the 60s, to the women's movement in the 70s and 80s, to environmental awareness and economic equality in the 90s. Her political idealism never waning,...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"It was a mild May morning in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1862, the second year of the Civil War, when a twenty-three-year-old slave named Robert Smalls did the unthinkable and boldly seized a Confederate steamer. With his wife and two young children hidden on board, Smalls and a small crew ran a gauntlet of heavily armed fortifications in Charleston Harbor and delivered the valuable vessel and the massive guns it carried to nearby Union forces....
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Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Incorporating interviews and rare archival video, this documentary chronicles U.S. Congressman John Lewis's 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action relating to civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health care reform, and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, who passed away in 2020 at the age of 80, the film explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family, and his meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
46) Davy Crockett
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Reference
Pub. Date
c2001
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"An intimate and rousing memoir by progressive trailblazer Ilhan Omar-the first African refugee, the first Somali-American, and one of the first Muslim women, elected to Congress. Ilhan Omar was only eight years old when war broke out in Somalia. The youngest of seven children, her mother had died while Ilhan was still a little girl. She was being raised by her father and grandfather when armed gunmen attacked their compound and the family decided...
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Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author, governor of South Dakota, and former congresswoman tells eye-opening stories of DC dysfunction, shares lessons from leading her state through unprecedented challenge, and explains how we seize this moment to move America forward. Any elected official can talk about how broken our government is. But their solutions always seem to involve more money, new programs--and reelection to another term. Few offer an unfiltered...
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