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"Long-serving congressman, Vice President, and now President, Joe Biden's journey to the highest position in the land has been long and winding. As a child, he didn't let his stutter stop him from success; as a senator, he carried on despite personal heartbreak; and now, as president, we'll see all this man can do. Learn about the . . . life of America's 46th president"--Provided by publisher.

Explores the life and community organizing activism of African American woman Dorothy Pitman Hughes. She shared the activist stage with Gloria Steinem for five years and spent the rest of her life fighting for civil rights and equality wherever she lived.

Explores how Japan became a cultural superpower through its many pop culture inventions including Hello Kitty!, Nintendo, Pok?mon, and more.

"Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life"--Provided by publisher.

Contains entries that provide information on topics, terms, people, and events of the 1950s in the United States and Canada, each with suggestions for further reading; arranged alphabetically from Jackie Robinson Herman Wouk. Includes comprehensive indexes, a time line, and other reference tools.

In 1960s California, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt has trouble with True Blue, the newest horse on her family's ranch, a beautiful dappled gray who is so often spooked, Abby wonders if he is haunted by the ghost of his deceased former owner.

Photographs and text chronicle the history of the Vietnam War.

Fifteen-year-old Sookan adjusts to life in the refugee village in Pusan but continues to hope that the civil war will end and her family will be reunited in Seoul.

Discusses the men who were deserters or draft resisters during the Vietnam war and examines the issue of amnesty.

This revelatory history of the elusive National Security Council shows how staffers operating in the shadows have driven foreign policy clandestinely for decades. When Michael Flynn resigned in disgrace as the Trump administration's national security advisor the New York Times referred to the National Security Council as "the traditional center of management for a president's dealings with an uncertain world." Indeed, no institution or individual in the last seventy years has exerted more influence on the Oval Office or on the nation's wars than the NSC, yet until the explosive Trump presidency, few Americans could even name a member. With key analysis, John Gans traces the NSC's rise from a collection of administrative clerks in 1947 to what one recent commander-in-chief called the president's "personal band of warriors." A former Obama administration speechwriter, Gans weaves extensive archival research with dozens of news-making interviews to reveal the NSC's unmatched power, which has resulted in an escalation of hawkishness and polarization, both in Washington and the nation at large.