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2001., General, DreamWorks Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Contender Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "'The most controversial movie in years,' claims Joel Siegel of Good Morning America. Power comes at a stunning price, in this electrifying thriller that features riveting performances by an all-star cast. The vice president is dead, and as the president (Jeff Bridges) makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival (Gary Oldman). When Senator Laine Hanson (Joan Allen) is nominated as the first woman in history to hold the office, hidden agendas explode into a battle for power. Critics rave that The Contender is 'the most important American film in years...a remarkably powerful and provocative thriller,' (Jeff Craig, Sixty Second Preview)."--Container.
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-- House of cards.2018., Adult, 441, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic House of C 6 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: House of cards Volume: 6Summary Note: After the death of her husband, Claire Underwood becomes the first female President of the United States. Regardless of the power Claire holds, she finds that she doesn't have allies or friends, both outside and inside the White House.
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[2020]., Adult, Random House Call No: Fic Sit Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In 1971, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise. Life magazine covered her Wellesley commencement speech, she's attending Yale Law School, and she's on the forefront of student activism and the women's rights movement. Then she meets a fellow law student named Bill Clinton. A charismatic Southerner, Bill is already laying the groundwork for his political career. In each other, Hillary and Bill find a profound intellectual, emotional, and physical connection that neither has previously experienced. In the real world, Hillary followed Bill back to Arkansas, and he proposed several times. Although she turned him down more than once, she eventually accepted and became Hillary Clinton. But in Curtis Sittenfeld's powerfully imagined tour de force of fiction, Hillary follows a different path. Listening to her doubts about the prospective marriage, she endures a devastating break-up and leaves Arkansas. Over the next four decades, she blazes her own trail--one that unfolds in public as well as in private, that crosses paths again (and again) with Bill Clinton, that raises questions about the trade-offs all of us must make to build a life. Brilliantly weaving actual historical events into a riveting fictional tale, Sittenfeld delivers an uncannily astute story for our times. In exploring the loneliness, moral ambivalence, and iron determination that characterize the quest for political power, as well as both the exhilaration and painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world still mostly run by men, Rodham is a singular and unforgettable novel"--
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2006., General, Universal Pictures Call No: DVD Fic Scoop Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Focus Features spotlight filmsSummary Note: While inside of a magician's magic cabinet, aspiring journalist Sondra Pransky is visited by the ghost of a dead reporter who has received a very hot tip in the afterlife. He tells Sondra about a rising young politician named Lord Peter Lyman who may be the notorious tarot card serial killer. With the magician in tow, Sondra sneaks her way into Lyman's life. Sondra finds increasing evidence that the tip from the ghost is true, but finds herself falling in love with Lord Peter.
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Ã2017., General, Crown Call No: Bio C641l Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the tragic story of a sure thing gone off the rails. No explanation of the defeat can begin with anything other than the core problem of Hillary's campaign - -the candidate herself. Political writers Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes have reconstructed the key decisions and unseized opportunities, the well-intentioned misfires and the hidden thorns that turned a winnable contest into a devastating loss. Drawing on their knowledge of Hillary from their biography HRC, they offer an object lesson in how Hillary herself made victory an uphill battle, how her difficulty articulating a vision irreparably hobbled her impact with voters, and how the campaign failed to internalize the lessons of populist fury from the hard-fought primary against Bernie Sanders. Moving blow-by-blow from the campaign's difficult birth through the bewildering terror of election night, the unforgettable story and the urgent lessons both political and personal, filled with revelations that will change the way readers understand just what happened to America on November 8, 2016"--Provided by publisher.
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2013., Adult, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Veep 1 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Veep Volume: 1Summary Note: Former Senator Selina Meyer was a charismatic leader and a rising star in her party with her eye on the White House, then she became Vice President. VEEP follows the whirlwind day-to day existence of Vice President Meyer as she puts out political fires, juggles a busy public schedule and demanding private life, and defends the President's interests, even as she tries to improve her dysfunctional relationship with the Chief Executive.
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By Iannucci, Armando, 1963- Godsick, Christopher Rich, Frank Louis-Dreyfus, Julia Laing, Stephanie Morris, Christopher, 1965- Addison, Chris, 1971- Martin, Becky Kirby, Tim Hale, Tony Chlumsky, Anna Scott, Reid, 1977- Simons, Timothy Walsh, Matt, 1964- Bradshaw, Sufe HBO Entertainment (Firm) Home Box Office (Firm) HBO Home Entertainment (Firm) Warner Home Video (F2013., Adult, Home Box Office, Inc. Call No: DVD Fic Veep 2 Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Veep Volume: 2Summary Note: Julia Louis-Dreyfus returns for a second season in her Emmy winning role as Vice President Selina Meyer in VEEP. As midterm elections loom, Vice President Meyer is scoring higher ratings than the President in several popularity polls, which she hopes will boost her influence and help her curry favor with the chief executive. But despite her best intentions, even the most banal actions can set off unexpected and often disastrous consequences. Her staff is close at hand with a laugh-out-loud combination of personal problems and government-insider antics.
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[2015]., HBO Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Veep 3 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Veep Volume: 3Summary Note: Season three begins with Selina, eying a promotion, courting Iowa caucus voters at a signing for her new book, 'Some new beginnings.' Soon, Selina and her staff, are back in D.C. for Mike's wedding, learn that Secretary of Defense Maddox is resigning; setting Selina up for a possible run in the presidential primaries against Maddox and her nemesis, war-vet Danny Chung.
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2016., Home Box Office, Inc. Call No: DVD Fic Veep 4 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Veep Volume: 4Summary Note: Former Senator Selina Meyer has accepted the call to serve as Vice President of the United States. The job is nothing like she imagined and everything she was warned about. 'Veep' follows Meyer and her staff as they attempt to make their mark and leave a lasting legacy, without getting tripped up in the day-to-day political games that define Washington.
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[2017]., Adult, Home Box Office Call No: DVD Fic Veep 5 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The show follows Meyer and her staff as they attempt to make their mark and leave a lasting legacy, without getting tripped up in the day-to-day political games that define Washington.
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-- Veep the final season2019., Adult, 226, Home Box Office ; Distributed by Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Veep 7 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Veep Volume: 7Summary Note: The show follows Meyer and her staff as they attempt to make their mark and leave a lasting legacy, without getting tripped up in the day-to-day political games that define Washington.