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Series
Publisher
Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
"These three 20- minute videos examine key constitutional concepts. The first explains why the nation's framers created the Constitution. The second describes the protection of individual rights by highlighting the Supreme Court case of Gideon v. Wainwright, affirming the right to an attorney. The last explores the separation of powers by examining the Supreme Court case of Youngstown v. Sawyer, a challenge to President Truman's decision to take over...
3) 1945
Series
Publisher
Whirlwind Media, Inc
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Each DVD has a video chapter that tells a year's stories using archival newsreel film. An audio chapter includes a year's top songs, new stories and radio entertainment. The interactive chapter focuses on facts and photos relative to awards, trends and historic events.
10) Truman
Author
Language
English
Description
Drawing on newly discovered archival material and extensive interviews with Truman's own family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary "man from Missouri" who was perhaps the most courageous president in our history.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the New York Times best-selling author of The Accidental President comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the greatest election stories of all time, as Truman mounted a history-making comeback and staked a claim for a new course for America."--
15) Truman
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Biographical drama of the simple man of the people who led America and guided the world through the most troubled period in history, Harry S Truman.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
"A probing look at one of the most incendiary subjects of our time--the relationship between the United States and Israel There has been more than half a century of raging conflict between Jews and Arabs--a violent, costly struggle that has had catastrophic repercussions in a critical region of the world. In Genesis, John B. Judis argues that, while Israelis and Palestinians must shoulder much of the blame, the United States has been the principal...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Traces the legal, political, and moral campaign for equality that led to Harry Truman's 1948 desegregation of the U.S. military, documenting the contributions of black troops since the Revolutionary War and their efforts to counter racism on the fields and on military bases.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Drawing on records of the Truman Committee as well as other materials, an award-winning senior editor and executive producer at NPR recounts how Harry Truman cobbled together a bipartisan team of men and women that took on powerful corporate entities and the Pentagon to fight wartime corruption, paving his path to the White House.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
Depicts the life of the president, from his impoverished start with his farming family, through enlisting in the army in 1917 and failed business ventures to beginning a political career in Missouri that ultimately led to the presidency.
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