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Series
Culper Ring novels (Brad Meltzer) volume 2
Language
English
Description
Archivist Beecher White discovers a connection that may link the individuals responsible for the only four successful assassinations of American presidents after discovering a modern-day killer who is recreating the assassins' crimes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR's This American Life Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation's ever-evolving political system and history.
Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination...
Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination...
3) End game
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A secret service agent and a reporter work to unravel a menacing conspiracy behind the assassination of the President.
5) Kentucky!
Author
Series
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Following the Civil War, Toby Holt is sent to the Kentucky hills in pursuit of an assassin plotting against President Grant's life.
7) Libra
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[1988-]
Language
English
Description
A fictional speculation of the events leading up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald.
Author
Language
English
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"Carol Leonnig has been covering the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the gaffes and scandals that plague the agency today--from a toxic work culture to outdated equipment and training to the deep resentment among the ranks with the agency's leadership. But the Secret Service wasn't always so troubled. The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirty years after his renowned film JFK, Oliver Stone takes viewers on a thought-provoking and eye-opening journey through recently declassified evidence in the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Subjects covered include the early formation of President Kennedy's foreign policy overview and his anti-colonial convictions, which put him in opposition to the Eisenhower administration, the CIA, and the Pentagon.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Thirty years after his renowned film JFK, Oliver Stone takes viewers on a thought-provoking and eye-opening journey through recently declassified evidence in the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Subjects covered include the early formation of President Kennedy's foreign policy overview and his anti-colonial convictions, which put him in opposition to the Eisenhower administration, the CIA, and the Pentagon.
11) Parkland
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
November 22, 1963 is a day that changed the world forever when beloved American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Parkland is the true story behind that tragic day, told from the vantage point of individuals who are forced to make split-second decisions after this incomprehensible event.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
There are few days in American history so immortalized in public memory as November 22, 1963, the date of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Adding to the wealth of information about this tragic day is We Were There, a truly unique collection of firsthand accounts from the doctors and staff on scene at the hospital where JFK was immediately taken after he was shot.
Author
Series
A treasury of Victorian murder volume 7
Publisher
NBM ComicsLit
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A picturized account of the conspiracy by John Wilkes Booth and other Confederate sympathizers to strike out at the Executive Branch of the United States government that resulted in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the subsequent actions of the government to round up the conspirators.
Author
Series
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
"James Abram Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was assassinated when he was shot by Charles Guiteau in July 1881, less than four months after he was elected president. But Garfield didn't actually die until 80 days later. In this page-turner, award-winning author Gail Jarrow delves into the fascinating story of the relationship between Garfield and Guiteau, and relates the gruesome details of Garfield's slow and agonizing death. She...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Throughout American history, Presidents and Presidential candidates have faced countless assassination threats and attempts on their lives. These threats have extended not only to sitting Presidents and candidates but also to Presidents-elect and former Presidents. Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency: From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama walks through Presidential history, looking at the countless assassination threats and attempts...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
On March 4, 1865, at the United States Capitol, a crowd of fifty thousand listened as President Lincoln delivered his classic second inaugural address, urging charity and forgiveness to a nation in the final throes of war. Just two months later, a train, nine cars long and draped in black bunting, pulled slowly out of a station in Washington, D.C. Dignitaries and government officials crowded the first eight cars. In the ninth rode the body of Abraham...
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