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Book cover for "The president's lawyer".
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English
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After a long career as one of DC's most powerful litigators, Rob Jacobson is faced with the case of a lifetime: the former President of the United States, his childhood best friend, has been accused of murdering his mistress. Rob knows he's the only one who can prove his friend's innocence, but he is soon overwhelmed as he attempts to devise a strategy to defend an authoritative man with a taste for infidelity, serious anger issues, and unconventional...
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Publisher:
Random House
Pub. Date:
[2020]
Language:
English
Book cover for "America's lawyer-presidents".
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Publisher:
ABA Museum of Law
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
Book cover for "The accidental president".
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Publisher:
Morrow
Pub. Date:
[2001]
Language:
English
Book cover for "John Adams".
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English
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4.5 stars
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Chronicles the life of America's second president, including his youth, his career as a Massachusetts farmer and lawyer, his marriage to Abigail, his rivalry with Thomas Jefferson, and his influence on the birth of the United States.
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Lexile measure:
830L
Language:
English
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4.5 stars
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The daughter of a judge in a New Hampshire school shooting case witnessed the events, but cannot remember the last several minutes of the attack.
Book cover for "Team of rivals".
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English
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This multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history. Historian Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius, as the one-term congressman rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals to become president. When Lincoln emerged as the victor at the Republican National Convention, his rivals were dismayed. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically...
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Publisher:
Lionsgate
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
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Against the ominous backdrop of post-Civil War Washington, war hero Frederick Aiken reluctantly agrees to defend the lone woman charged in the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, boarding house owner Mary Surratt, before a military tribunal. As the nation turns against her, Surratt is forced to rely on Aiken to uncover the truth and save her life.
Book cover for "Born to run".
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Series:
Jack Swyteck volume 8
Language:
English
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Jack Swyteck is back in action in Born to Run-the eighth outing for the danger-prone Miami lawyer in author James Grippando's New York Times bestselling series. In this timely and spellbinding thriller, Swyteck is embroiled in shady Washington D.C. politics when his own father is selected by the President to replace the Vice President, killed in a hunting accident.
Book cover for "Alex Cross's trial".
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Series:
Alex Cross volume 15
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Written in the fearless voice of Detective Alex Cross, Alex Cross's Trial is a #1 New York Times bestseller of murder, love, and above all, bravery.

From his grandmother, Alex Cross has heard the story of his great uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a novel he's written-a novel called Trial.
As a lawyer...
Book cover for "Andrew Jackson".
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Lexile measure:
600L
Language:
English
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Examines the childhood, political career, and other activities of the seventh president of the United States, the first president to come from a poor family.
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Lexile measure:
570L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Young White House attorney Michael Garrick becomes enmeshed in a deadly conspiracy when he gets too close to Nora Hartson, the president's sexy daughter, and finds himself on the run, accused of a murder he did not commit.
Book cover for "Grover Cleveland".
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Lexile measure:
690L
Language:
English
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A biography of Grover Cleveland, the only American president to serve two nonconsecutive terms in office.
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Dana Cutler volume 1
Language:
English
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When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on where she goes and whom she sees. But then the unexpected happens. One night, Cutler follows Walsh to a secret meeting with Christopher Farrington, the president of the United States. The following morning, Walsh's dead body shows up and Cutler has to...
Book cover for "Benjamin Harrison".
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Lexile measure:
690L
Language:
English
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Discusses the private life and political career of the grandson of the ninth president of the United States who was elected to be the twenty-third president in 1888.
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English
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When a mentor who enabled his education and career entreats him to accept the presidency of his alma mater amid an embezzlement scandal, trial lawyer Mark Darrow remembers his discovery of a murdered girl sixteen years earlier that resulted in a classmate's conviction.
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Lexile measure:
660L
Language:
English
Description:
Examines the childhood, political career, and other activities of the twenty-first president of the United States.
Book cover for "Lincoln's last trial".
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Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a strange case in which he had a deep personal involvement--and which was played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign.At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln, who had been involved in more than three thousand cases--including more than twenty-five murder trials--during...
Book cover for "Courting Mr. Lincoln".
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English
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When Mary Todd meets Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in the spring of 1840, he is on no one's short list to be president. A country lawyer living above a dry goods shop, he is lacking both money and manners, and his gift for oratory surprises those who meet him. Mary, a quick, self-possessed debutante with an interest in debates and elections, at first finds him an enigma ... It's not long, though, before she sees the Lincoln that [Joshua] Speed knows:...
Book cover for "Kamala and Maya's big idea".
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Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 540L
Language:
English
Description:
The niece of Senator Kamala Harris presents a picture book inspired by a childhood story about her aunt and policy expert mother that depicts two sisters who work with their community to turn an empty apartment courtyard into a playground.