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Founding Father: How C-SPAN's Brian Lamb Changed Politics in America
This is the first biography of the enigmatic broadcast visionary and C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. It explores Lamb's experiences as public affairs officer to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, White House staffer during the Johnson and Nixon administrations, Capitol Hill press secretary, and many other previously unknown stories. Founding Father also chronicles the creation and rise of C-SPAN from a dream to the network of record for public affairs with its legion of C-SPAN junkies..
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Citizen Democracy: Political Activism in a Cyncial Age (People, Passions, and Power)
Through a series of carefully chosen vignettes, Stephen E. Frantzich portrays citizens from every walk of life-rich and poor, old and young, black and white, male and female, left and right, famous and obscure engaged in extraordinary civic activity. Their causes run the gamut from civil rights to flag burning, from the Internet to the environment-but their common cause is the fact that they creatively entered the arena of national public policy making and made a difference..
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Congress: Games and Strategies
A timely and interactive text on the U.S. Congress which combines contemporary scholarship with up to date information Congress uses an analogy with which we are familiar - games - to help students understand the workings of Congress. In portraying Congress as a game or sport in which players and chosen, trained, find their ways onto teams, and battle in an arena not unlike that of football or basketball, the authors explain Congress in a way many students will find accessible and understandable without belittling the workings of Congress..
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The Frantzich Name in History
This book is part of the Our Name in History series, a collection of fascinating facts and statistics, alongside short historical commentary, created to tell the story of previous generations who have shared this name. The information in this book is a compendium of research and data pulled from census records, military records, ships' logs, immigrant and port records, as well as other reputable sources. Topics include: - Name Meaning and Origin
- Immigration Patterns and Census Detail
- Family Lifestyles
- Military Service History
- Comprehensive Source Guide, for future research
Plus, the "Discover Your Family" section provides tools and guidance on how you can get started learning more about your own family history. About the Series Nearly 300,000 titles are currently available in the Our Name in History series, compiled from Billions of records by the world's largest online resource of family history, Ancestry.com..
Price: $29.95
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