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10) The Vanderbilts
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In The Vanderbilts, the family's astounding story is told in full: from the farmstead beginnings of the Commodore on Staten Island to the pinnacle of wealth, fame, and social standing achieved by the legendary Vanderbilt ladies-Consuelo, Alva, Grace, Gertrude, and Gloria. The text traces the commercial machinations that established their fortune and the Vanderbilt mania for house building that engaged some of America's finest designers and architects....
11) Melania Trump
Author
Publisher
Launch!, an imprint of Abdo Zoom
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This title focuses on Melania Trump and gives information related to her early life, time as a leader, first lady, and her legacy."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1944]
Language
English
Description
A fictionized biography of the man who left England to fight for freedom of speech and liberty of worship in colonial America. He founded a settlement in what is now Rhode Island and helped to create a truly democratic government.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The legacies of Joseph McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, Roy Cohn seem like they might be with us forever. Yet Christopher Elias finds in them startling new connections between gender, sexuality, and national security in 20th-century US politics--a paradigm he christens "security state masculinity." Elias integrates biographies of the trio with a history of gossip magazines and their tactics--such as insinuation, guilt by association, hyperbole, and alarmism,...
