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Being Nixon: a man divided

By Thomas, Evan

Publishing Date: [2015]

Classification: 900

Call Number: 973.924 THO

Evan Thomas delivers the best single-volume biography of Richard Nixon to date, a radical, unique portrait of a complicated figure who was both determinedly optimistic and tragically flawed. The New York Times bestselling author of Ike?s Bluff and Sea of Thunder, Thomas brings new life to one of American history?s most infamous, paradoxical, and enigmatic politicians, dispensing with myths to achieve an intimate and evenhanded look at the actual man. What drove a painfully shy outcast in elite Washington society?a man so self-conscious he refused to make eye contact during meetings?to pursue power and public office? How did a president so attuned to the American political id that he won reelection in a historic landslide lack the self-awareness to recognize the gaping character flaws that would drive him from office and forever taint his legacy? In Being Nixon, Evan Thomas peels away the layers of the complex, confounding figure who became America?s thirty-seventh president. The son of devout Quakers, Richard Nixon (not unlike his rival John F. Kennedy) grew up in the shadow of an older, favored brother and thrived on conflict and opposition. Through high school and college, in the navy and in politics, he was constantly leading crusades and fighting off enemies real and imagined. As maudlin as he was Machiavellian, Nixon possessed the plainspoken eloquence to reduce American television audiences to tears with his career-saving ?Checkers? speech; meanwhile, his darker half hatched schemes designed to take down his political foes, earning him the notorious nickname ?Tricky Dick.? Drawing on a wide range of historical accounts, Thomas reveals the contradictions of a leader whose vision and foresight led him to achieve détente with the Soviet Union and reestablish relations with communist China, but whose underhanded political tactics tainted his reputation long before the Watergate scandal. One of the principal architects of the modern Republican Party and its ?silent majority? of disaffected whites and conservative ex-Dixiecrats, Nixon was also deemed a liberal in some quarters for his efforts to desegregate Southern schools, create the Environmental Protection Agency, and end the draft. A deeply insightful character study as well as a brilliant political biography, Being Nixon offers a surprising look at a man capable of great bravery and extraordinary deviousness?a balanced portrait of a president too often reduced to caricature.

A journey through Texas, or, A saddle-trip on the southwestern frontier: with a statistical appendix

By Olmsted, Frederick Law

Publishing Date: [1981], c1980

Classification: 900

Call Number: 976.4 OLM

The girls of Atomic City: the untold story of the women who helped win World War II

By Kiernan, Denise

Publishing Date: 2013

Classification: 900

Call Number: 976.873 KIE

In this book the author traces the story of the unsung World War II workers in Oak Ridge, Tennessee through interviews with dozens of surviving women and other Oak Ridge residents. This is the story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most significant moments in U.S. history. The Tennessee town of Oak Ridge was created from scratch in 1942. One of the Manhattan Project's secret cities, it did not appear on any maps until 1949, and yet at the height of World War II it was using more electricity than New York City and was home to more than 75,000 people, many of them young women recruited from small towns across the South. Their jobs were shrouded in mystery, but they were buoyed by a sense of shared purpose, close friendships, and a surplus of handsome scientists and Army men. But against this wartime backdrop, a darker story was unfolding. The penalty for talking about their work, even the most innocuous details, was job loss and eviction. One woman was recruited to spy on her coworkers. They all knew something big was happening at Oak Ridge, but few could piece together the true nature of their work until the bomb "Little Boy" was dropped over Hiroshima, Japan, and the secret was out. The shocking revelation: the residents of Oak Ridge were enriching uranium for the atomic bomb. Though the young women originally believed they would leave Oak Ridge after the war, many met husbands there, made lifelong friends, and still call the seventy-year-old town home. The reverberations from their work there, work they did not fully understand at the time, are still being felt today.

The Sterling legend; the facts behind the Lost Dutchman Mine

By Conatser, Estee

Publishing Date: [1972]

Classification: 900

Call Number: 979.175 CON

Old time cattlemen and other pioneers of the Anza-Borrego area

By Reed, Lester

Publishing Date: ℗♭2004

Classification: 900

Call Number: 979.498 REE

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Latin America 2015-2016

By Turner, Blair

Publishing Date: 2015

Classification: 900

Call Number: 980 TUR