legislators

An examination of the life of Barack Obama, covering his childhood, family, careers as a lawyer and senator, presidential campaign, and role as president.

Provides an introduction to the United States Senate, discusses the rules of the governing body, looks at how a person becomes asenator, explains what the job of senator involves, and identifies notable Senate leaders from throughout history.

A biography of Robert Smalls who, during the Civil War, commandeered the Confederate ship Planter to carry his family and twelve other slaves to freedom, and went on to become a United States Congressman working toward African-American advancement.

An illustrated biography of Georgia congressman John Lewis, focusing on his activities on behalf of civil rights, specifically his leadership in the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in an effort to secure voting rights for African-Americans.

Offers a brief introduction to the life and times of frontiersman Davy Crockett.

A picture book memoir in which Senator Kamala Harris shares her life story and discusses heroic figures from her youth.

The author, a junior U.S. Senator, draws on personal experience to call the nation to greater compassion, solidarity, and hope.

Harris, a United States senator from California, describes how her upbringing and her career as the district attorney for San Francisco and later as California's attorney general influenced her passion for justice. She communicates a vision of shared struggle, shared purpose, and shared values and discusses the core truths that unite us and how to best act on them.

Looks at the life of former Vice President and United States senator Joe Biden.

A biography of Norman Mineta, from his internment as a child in Heart Mountain Internment Camp during World War II, through his political career including serving in Congress for ten terms during which time he was instrumental in getting the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 passed which provided reparations and an apology to those who were interned.