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2) Bluebird
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1946 Eva arrives in New York City, from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life, but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA; one in particular, the doctor who knows who Eva really is, becauseher identity is the product Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and Eva...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this comprehensive history, Stanley Karnow demystifies the tragic ordeal of America's war in Vietnam. The book's central theme is that America's leaders, prompted as much by domestic politics as by global ambitions, carried the United States into Southeast Asia with little regard for the realities of the region. Karnow elucidates the decision-making process in Washington and Asia and recounts the political and military events that occurred after...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
184 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brody, a typical self-absorbed twelve-year-old in the summer of 1969, is awakened to the world around him when he accompanies his older brother to the Woodstock music festival.
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
192 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A photographic look back at the decade of the 1950s, discussing the Eisenhower presidency, surburbia, cars, the Cold War, McCarthyism, art and entertainment, television, and sports.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America's past to predict our future in this startling and hopeful prophecy for how our present era of civil unrest will resolve over the next ten years--and what our lives will look like once it has"--
Author
Series
American experiment) volume 3
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c1989
Edition
1st trade ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 864 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
13) Truman
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Standard format.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 260 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Harry S. Truman's life, with comments by contemporaries and historians.
14) The McCarthy era
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
170 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the anti-Communist movement in the United States in the mid-twentieth century, spearheaded by Senator Joseph McCarthy, and examines the controversies surrounding the era and personal narrative of the time.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
500 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Magician opens at the turn of the twentieth century in a provincial German city where the young boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative, conventional father and a Brazilian mother, exotic and unpredictable, who will never fit in. He hides bothhis artistic aspirations and his homosexual desires from this father, and his sexuality from everyone. He longs for the charismatic, beautiful, rich, cultured young Jewish man, but marries his twin...
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