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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
The junior senator from Illinois discusses how to transform U.S. politics, calling for a return to America's original ideals and revealing how they can address such issues as globalization and the function of religion in public life.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
As a young girl growing up in the fifties, Hillary Diane Rodham had an unusual upbringing for the time-her parents told her, "You can do or be whatever you choose, as long as you're willing to work for it." Hillary took those words and ran. Whether it was campaigning at the age of thirteen in the 1964 presidential election, receiving a standing ovation and being featured in LIFE magazine as the first student commencement speaker at Wellesley, or graduating...
4) Barack Obama
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
5) John Lewis
Author
Series
Publisher
Morgan Reynolds Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Profiles the civil rights leader who was active in the Freedom Rides and other major events in the battle against segregation and later became a long-term congressman from Georgia.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
From one of the most admired couples in recent American history, an extraordinarily moving story of public service, risk-taking, romance—and the journey toward recovery. This book delivers hope and redemption in the face of the tragic shooting, and introduces two unforgettable heroes.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
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Description
Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick demonstrates how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, then as a Harvard Law School graduate, and finally as President of the United States "By looking at Obama's political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us...
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