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History and Current Events December 2017
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The American spirit : who we are and what we stand for
by David G McCullough
A timely collection of speeches by one of the most honored historians in the United States—winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom—aims to remind readers of fundamental American principles. Illustrations.
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Big agenda : President Trump's plan to save America
by David Horowitz
Horowitz presents a White House battle plan to halt the Democrats' march to extinguish the values conservatives hold dear. He details President Trump's likely moves, and explores the opportunities he will have to reshape the American political landscape while securing the nation's vital security interests abroad
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Shattered : inside Hillary Clinton's doomed campaign
by Jonathan Allen
A dramatic analysis of the bitter 2016 election, told from the viewpoints of Hilary Clinton campaign insiders, reconstructs key decisions and missed opportunities that are being cited as the cause of the election upset. By the authors of HRC.
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Blue on Blue: An Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops
by Charles Campisi with Gordon Dillow
Former Chief of the NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau Charles Campisi's memoir is a compelling, no-holds-barred account of policing in New York City, with a focus on police misconduct. (Even before he joined Internal Affairs, he'd witnessed some shady cop behavior.) From stopping a fellow officer from shooting a suspect in the back, to the Amadou Diallou shooting and the Abner Louima case, Campisi chronicles internal controversies and public outrage while detailing his work to change the culture in the NYPD. In a starred review, Booklist calls Blue on Blue an "unflinching exposé and a riveting read."
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The 20th Century Through the Years
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| Provence, 1970: M. F. K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and... by Luke BarrThe winter of 1970 was a pivotal year for the evolution of American cuisine, even though the key events took place in Provence, France. During that time, several influential American culinary experts were staying near each other and frequently dining together. Pulling information from diaries and letters, especially M.F.K. Fisher's diary, her great-nephew Luke Barr concocts a mouth-watering chronicle of their conversations, their opinions, and what they ate. Later, Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and their colleagues came into their own as leaders of the American culinary scene. |
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| Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America by Calvin TrillinAward-winning New Yorker contributor Calvin Trillin's Jackson, 1964 reports on American race relations in the last third of the 20th century. Reprinting richly descriptive, journalistic essays, Trillin depicts Jackson, Mississippi in the summer of 1964, relates the history of New Orleans' African American Krewe of Zulu (a Mardi Gras organization), recounts a 1976 controversy over restaurant desegregation in Boston, and describes other racially charged events around the U.S. Readers interested in U.S. race relations will find this a thought-provoking window into both the past and the present. |
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Dimestore
by Lee Smith
In her first work of nonfiction, an author recounts her early days in the small coal town of Grundy, Virginia—and beyond.
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South and West : from a notebook
by Joan Didion
Two excerpts from never-before-seen notebooks by the National Book Award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking offer insights into her literary mind and process and includes notes on her Sacramento upbringing, her life in the Gulf states, her views on prominent locals and her experiences during a formative Rolling Stone assignment.
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Frank & Charli : Woodstock, true love, and the sixties
by Frank Yandolino
An account of the author's life as a hippie, art director, entrepreneur and writer during the Woodstock era draws on the stories of remarkable people he encountered while reflecting on his artistic collaborations, counterculture experiments and evolving philosophies about seizing self-affirming opportunities.
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The astronaut wives club : a true story
by Lily Koppel
"Describes what lives were like for a group of military wives, including Annie Glenn, Rene Carpenter, Betty Grissom and Louise Shepherd, who were thrust into the spotlight when their husbands became Mercury Seven astronauts and made them stars."
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Central Mississippi Regional Library System
100 Tamberline Street
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
601-825-0100
http://www.cmrls.lib.ms.us
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