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1) Long shot
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Fred Flarsky reunites with his first crush, one of the most influential women in the world, Charlotte Field, he charms her. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter and sparks fly.
2) Scoop
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
While inside of a magician's magic cabinet, aspiring journalist Sondra Pransky is visited by the ghost of a dead reporter who has received a very hot tip in the afterlife. He tells Sondra about a rising young politician named Lord Peter Lyman who may be the notorious tarot card serial killer. With the magician in tow, Sondra sneaks her way into Lyman's life. Sondra finds increasing evidence that the tip from the ghost is true, but finds herself falling...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, Jennifer Chiaverini, reveals the famous First Lady's very public social and political contest with Kate Chase Sprague, memorialized as "one of the most remarkable women ever known to Washington society." (Providence Journal) Kate Chase Sprague was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of a devout but ambitious lawyer. Her father, Salmon P. Chase,...
4) Power
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
This film depicts the political candidates tactics as they try to get elected and the media consultants hired to sell them to the public.
Author
Publisher
Springboard Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A CBS News commentator, actor, and activist shares eighty life lessons imparted by such friends and colleagues as Carol Burnett, Rosie O'Donnell, and Senator Orrin Hatch about their most valuable and life-changing mistakes.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor as the most prominent members of the most important family in history. Through their stories, PBS chronicles the history they helped to shape, from the Square Deal to the New Deal, San Juan Hill to the Western Front, to the founding of the United Nations.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Maria Laurino strips away stereotypes and nostalgia to tell the complicated, centuries-long story of the true Italian-American experience. Looking beyond the familiar caricatures fostered by popular culture, she tells the stories of Sicilian workers imported to replace the labor of freed slaves, the grim realities from which most immigrants came, the lynchings of Italian Americans, and the first uses of the word "mafia." Laurino shows how Italian...