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Aug.03.2009
Confessions of a Loyal Librarian
Redroom.com presents exclusive video of John Y. Cole, a historian of the Library of Congress and founding director of its Center for the Book. John has worked at the Library of Congress for more than 44 years. He will enlighten and amuse you with stories (like the...
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Dec.23.2008
Based on rare archival material, obscure trial manuscripts, and interviews with relatives of the conspirators and the manhunters, CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER is a fast-paced thriller about the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth: a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C.,...
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Dec.01.2008
Just over 30 years ago, one American woman nearly brought the country to its knees.
In 1975, Sara Jane Moore fired a shot at President Gerald Ford, and barely missed. The first woman to ever fire a bullet at an American President, Sara Jane had built a life for herself that is both profoundly...
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Jun.27.2008
Jimmy Carter has been teaching Sunday school ever since he was a young midshipman in Annapolis; in later years he conducted religious services on submarines on which he served, and even led the occasional class in Washington while he was president. For the last 25 years, President Carter has taught...
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Apr.28.2008
Politically controversial, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration was staffed by passionate believers and hated by conservatives; its critics called its projects make-work and wags said it stood for We Piddle Around. The contrary was true. We have only to look about us today to...
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