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Madeleine Kunin - First Woman Governor of Vermont, fourth woman governor in the country's history. A memoir that will fascinate everyone interested in the political life. It will inspire and delight women who aspire to civic leadership.
Kunin lets us see how she gradually acquired her political education through "ordinary" activities: organizing a busy household, covering local school-board and selectmen's meetings for the Burlington Free Press,...
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Visionary. Iconoclast. Political Survivor. The extraordinary story of the life and political career of Governor Jerry Brown. Jerry Brown is no ordinary politician. Like his state, he is eclectic, brilliant, unpredictable and sometimes weird. And, as with so much that California invents and exports, Brown's life story reveals a great deal about this country. With the exclusive cooperation of Governor Brown himself, Jim Newton has written the definitive...
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On January 9, 2003, Jim Douglas was sworn in as governor of Vermont after already serving Vermonters for three decades as a legislator, governor's aide, secretary of state and state treasurer. A brief look back on the ideas, proposals, initiatives, issues, successes and challenges that marked Jim Douglas' eight years as governor.
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Many readers are already familiar with Madeleine Kunin, the former three-term governor of Vermont, who served as the deputy secretary of education and ambassador to Switzerland under President Bill Clinton. In her newest book, a memoir entitled Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties, the topic is aging, but she looks well beyond the physical tolls and explores the emotional ones as well. And she has had an extraordinary life: governor, ambassador,...
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A recounting of Madeleine Kunin's life and achievements as a political pioneer, not only as governor of Vermont, but as an inspiration and leader during a time of change.
"Vermont's first woman governor (1985-91), reflects on her ground-breaking political career and the work she continues to do. After leaving office, she served as Deputy Secretary of Education and Ambassador to Switzerland in the Clinton administration and started an international...
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Sarah Palin, the first female Republican Vice Presidential candidate, recounts her political experiences, her rapid rise on the national stage during the 2008 campaign, and the personal challenges she's faced including balancing her time as a working mother, recognizing the war's impact with her son serving combat in Iraq, having a child with a disability, and supporting her teenage daughter with an unplanned pregnancy.
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"This dual biography of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, the thirty-ninth President of the United States and his wife, chronicles the unique political and business relationship of a couple who together rose from obscurity to national and international power. His life in an isolated, prosperous, locally powerful, Baptist farm family prepared him for a career in public service and business. Rosalynn came from a more modest, but well-connected and intelligent,...
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Former U.S. Senator Quintrell is dead.
His son, New Mexico's governor, is preparing his
run for the highest political office in the land. And dark family secrets are about to explode with the
devastating force of a Southwestern earthquake. An eccentric Quintrell aunt has invited genealogist Carolina "Carly" May to their Taos compound to compile a record of the illustrious family. But digging into the past is raising troubling questions about a would-be...
16) So help me God
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Focusing on his faith and his public service, the former Vice President recounts his journey to the White House, providing the inside story of the Trump Administration and how their relationship was severed when he kept his oath to the Constitution.
18) Wills, William H
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LoBianco crafts a revealing portrait of the real Mike Pence-a politician whose understated style masks a drive for power, but also a surprising political acumen-by drawing on years of research, over one hundred exclusive interviews with those closest to the vice president, and deep ties both within the Beltway and Indiana state politics.
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