Presidential Misadventures

Presidential Misadventures
Author: Bob Raczka
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2015-01-27
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1596439807

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"A book of poetry about the presidents written in clerihews"--

Presidential Misadventures

Presidential Misadventures
Author: Bob Raczka
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2015-01-27
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1466887060

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A spoonful of poetry helps the mockery go down! This collection of presidential poems is historical and hysterical. The clerihew is a simple poetic form specifically invented to make fun of famous people—and who is more famous than the misbehaving presidents of the United States? Here are forty-three poems teasing the commander-in-chief that are fun to read aloud and even more fun to write yourself. From the author of the incredibly inventive Lemonade: And Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word comes a new collection filled with zingers, humdingers, and Presidential Misadventures.

My Presidential Life

My Presidential Life
Author: Judd Swift
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024
Genre: Presidents
ISBN: 9781493081493

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"My Presidential Life is a wry insider's look at iconic American presidents on the world stage and the unseen events that occurred off-camera"--

Not Without Peril

Not Without Peril
Author: Nicholas S. Howe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN:

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These compelling profiles of 22 adventurous yet unlucky climbers chronicle more than a century of exploration recreation and tragedy in New Hampshire's Presidential Range

Imperfect Presidents

Imperfect Presidents
Author: Jim Cullen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2010
Genre: Presidents
ISBN: 9781435123847

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Lemonade: and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word

Lemonade: and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word
Author: Bob Raczka
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 61
Release: 2011-03-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1596435410

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Part anagram, part rebus, part riddle - this brand new poetic form turns word puzzles into poetry.

Imperfect Presidents

Imperfect Presidents
Author: Jim Cullen
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2007-03-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0230610749

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When people make bad decisions, odd remarks, and just plain silly mistakes, the results are sure to haunt them. But when these things happen to the president of the United States, they can change the course of history. In this clever portrait of the American presidency, Jim Cullen takes ten presidents down from their pedestals by examining key missteps in their careers--and how they transcended them. Examples include Abraham Lincoln smearing a preacher and rediscovering his religious vision in emancipating slaves; Lyndon Johnson's electoral fraud in his 1948 Senate race and his role in the signing of the Voting Rights Act; and Ronald Reagan's subversion of the Constitution in the Iran-Contra affair and affirmation of world peace in helping bring about the end of the Cold War. Targeting Republicans and Democrats alike, Cullen's insights are surprisingly timely and hugely entertaining.

The Idea of Identification

The Idea of Identification
Author: Gary C. Woodward
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0791486478

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Illustrated with interesting examples drawn from politics and art, The Idea of Identification draws on classical social and rhetorical theories to establish a systematic framework for understanding the varieties and forms of identification. Woodward references a variety of contexts in contemporary life to explore the rhetorical conditions that create powerful and captivating moments. By invoking the influential ideas of Kenneth Burke, George Herbert Mead, Joshua Meyrowitz and others, he shows how the rhetorical process of identification is separate from psychological theories of identity construction. Woodward concludes with an argument that film theory has perhaps offered the most vivid descriptive categories for understanding the bonds of identification.

Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut

Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut
Author: Paul Krassner
Publisher: Catapult
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2012-09-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1593765037

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Uncensored, uncontained, and thoroughly demented, the memoirs of Paul Krassner are back in an updated and expanded edition. Paul Krassner, “father of the underground press” (People magazine), founder of the Realist, political radical, Yippie, and award-winning stand-up satirist, shares his stark raving adventures with the likes of Lenny Bruce, Abbie Hoffman, Norman Mailer, Ken Kesey, Groucho Marx, and Squeaky Fromme, revealing the patriarch of counterculture’s ultimate, intimate, uproarious life on the fringes of society. Whether he’s writing about his friendship with controversial comic Lenny Bruce, introducing Groucho Marx to LSD, his investigation of Scientology, or John Kennedy’s cadaver, no subject is too sacred to be skewered by Krassner. And yet his stories are soulful and philosophical, always authentic to his iconoclastic brand of personal journalism. As Art Spiegelman said, “Krassner is one of the best minds of his generational to be destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked—but mainly hysterical. His true wacky, wackily true autobiography is the definitive book on the sixties.”

A Fish in the Water

A Fish in the Water
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 849
Release: 2011-07-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1429922540

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Mario Vargas Llosa's A Fish in the Water is a twofold book: a memoir of one of Latin America's most celebrated witers, beginning with his birth in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru; and the story of his organization of the reform movement which culminated in his bid for the Peruvian presidency in 1990.