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1) Split second
Author
Series
Sean King and Michelle Maxwell volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Eight years after leaving the Secret Service following the assassination of the presidential candidate he had been protecting, Sean King reluctantly joins with agent Michelle Maxwell to uncover the truth when another candidate is abducted.
Author
Series
Maureen Coughlin volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Bob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle... Woodward reveals the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the secret White House taping system that changed history and led to Nixon’s resignation. --Amazon.com
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Posted directly outside President Clinton's Oval Office, Gary Byrne saw it all. Now that a second Clinton administration is a possibility Byrne, provides a firsthand account of the scandals, both known and unknown, and daily trials ranging from the minor to national in scale. Byrne now tells this story, before voters go to the polls, in the hopes that Clinton supporters will understand the real Hillary Clinton.
13) Oath of loyalty
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp volume 21
Language
English
Description
With President Anthony Cook convinced that Mitch Rapp poses a mortal threat to him, CIA Director Irene Kennedy is forced to construct a truce between the two men. The terms are simple: Rapp agrees to leave the country and stay in plain sight for as long as Cook controls the White House. In exchange, the administration agrees not to make any moves against him. This fragile détente holds until Cook's power-hungry security adviser convinces him that...
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked, “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?" Franklin's response: “A Republic—if you can keep it." This book argues: we couldn't keep it.... Corruption today is so widespread that our government is not really a republic, but rather a special interest democracy. Everybody may participate, yes, but the contours of public policy depend not so much on the common good,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Washington insiders operate by a proven credo: when a Peter Schweizer book drops, duck and brace for impact. For over a decade, the work of five-time New York Times bestselling investigative reporter Peter Schweizer has sent shockwaves through the political universe....In Profiles in Corruption, Schweizer offers a deep-dive investigation into the private finances, and secrets deals of some of America's top political leaders. And, as usual, he doesn't...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Mary Trump examines America's national trauma, rooted in our history but dramatically exacerbated by the impact of current events and the Trump administration's corrupt and immoral policies, and reveals what must be done to rebuild our faith in leadership.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Over the past few decades, principled insiders who expose wrongdoing have gained unprecedented legal and social stature, emerging as the government's best weapon against corporate misconduct-- and the citizenry's best defense against government gone bad. Whistleblowers force us to confront fundamental questions about the balance between free speech and state secrecy, and between individual morality and corporate power. Mueller traces the rise of whistleblowing...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Jefferson Smith is a small town idealist who answers the call to duty when he's unexpectedly named to fill a vacant seat in the U.S. Senate. Determined to do some good, he sponsors a bill to create a national boy's camp, unaware it threatens to undermine a graft scheme sponsored by his home state's crooked political machine. Framed and threatened with expulsion, Jefferson takes to the Senate floor to prove his innocence.
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