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4) Persist
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The influential senator and former presidential candidate, in this deeply personal book and a powerful call to action, writes about six perspectives that have influenced her life and advocacy.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The Iraq War veteran traces her impoverished childhood, her decision to join the Army, the months spent recovering from the RPG attack that shot down her helicopter and nearly took her life, and her subsequent mission of serving in elected office.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
This inspiring picture book autobiography tells the remarkable story of Sharice Davids, one of the first Native American women elected to Congress and the first LGBTQ congressperson to represent Kansas.
10) What happened
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The former secretary of state relates her experiences as the first woman candidate nominated for president by a major party, discussing the sexism, criticism, and double standards she had to confront, and how she coped with a devastating loss.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
National Bestseller
In this nuanced and complex portrait of Barack Obama, Pulitzer Prize-winner David Remnick offers a thorough, intricate, and riveting account of the unique experiences that shaped our nation’s first African American president.
Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, Remnick explores the elite institutions that
17) I am John Lewis
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography about the late American politician and civil rights activist John Lewis"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Barack Obama’s lucid vision of America’s place in the world and call for a new kind of politics that builds upon our shared understandings as Americans, based on his years in the Senate
“In our lowdown, dispiriting era, Obama’s talent for proposing humane, sensible solutions with uplifting, elegant prose does fill one with hope.”—Michael...
“In our lowdown, dispiriting era, Obama’s talent for proposing humane, sensible solutions with uplifting, elegant prose does fill one with hope.”—Michael...
19) So help me God
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Focusing on his faith and his public service, the former Vice President recounts his journey to the White House, providing the inside story of the Trump Administration and how their relationship was severed when he kept his oath to the Constitution.
20) Barack
Author
Publisher
Collins/Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A picture book biography of African-American senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama.
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