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Sourcebooks
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English
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Illuminating an untold chapter of the Cold War, The Double Life of Katharine Clark shares the forgotten story of a remarkable woman who pioneered a career in a male-dominated profession. In 1955, Katharine Clark became the first female American wire reporter behind the Iron Curtain, forging a career as a journalist, befriending a leading Communist, and risking her life to smuggle away books that exposed the truth about Communism to the world. This...
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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At a time when civilian periodicals faced strict censorship, US Army Chief of Staff George Marshall won the support of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to create an expansive troop-newspaper program. Both Marshall and FDR recognized that there was a second struggle taking place outside the battlefields of World War II--the war of words. While Hitler inundated the globe with propaganda, morale across the US Army dwindled. As the Axis blurred the...
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The Bush administration marketed and sold the war in Iraq to the American people. How and why did the press buy it, and what does that say about the role of journalists in helping the public sort out fact from propaganda? In this program, veteran journalist Bill Moyers, award-winning producer Kathleen Hughes, and their investigative team piece together the reporting and political spin that shaped the public mind prior to, during, and following the...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Chris' best friend Annie loses her husband, Chris derives a scheme to memorialize him. The two women, along with some of their friends - all fiftysomething women - will make a nude calendar to raise money for the hospital where he died. The calendar becomes hugely popular. Based on actual events.
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English
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"The last year of the Nixon presidency was filled with power politics, legal jiu-jitsu and high-stakes showdowns, with head-shaking surprises every day. Tom Brokaw, the NBC News White House correspondent during the final year of Watergate, gives us a close-up, personal account of the players, the strategies, and the highs and lows of the scandal that brought down a president. Brokaw writes, 'Even now, almost half a century later, I am astonished by...
13) Happy Valley
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The town of State College, the home of Penn State University, has long been known as Happy Valley, and its iconic figure for more than 40 years was Joe Paterno, the head coach of the school's storied football team. His program was lauded for not only its success on the field but also its students' achievements in the classroom. And Paterno took on mythic national stature as "Saint Joe." But then, in November 2011, everything came crashing down. Longtime...
14) Citizen Ruth
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ruth Stoops is pregnant, confused and in trouble with the law for the umpteenth time! But it doesn't stop there! She soon becomes the unwitting object of a wacky tug-of-war that erupts when pro-lifers square off with pro-choicers and everyone goes to ridiculous extremes trying to claim her as a national symbol for their cause!
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xv, 384 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of primary source newspaper articles and correspondence reporting the events of the Revolution, containing both American and British eyewitness accounts and commentary and analysis from thirty-seven historians.
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