San Antonio College Library

Carl Bernstein's portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton shows the true trajectory of her life and career, with its bursts of risks taken and safety sought--a detailed, sophisticated account of the complex political meteor who has helped define one president and may well become another. We see the shaping of Hillary as a self-described "mind conservative and heart liberal"--Her ostensibly idyllic Midwestern girlhood; her early development of deep religious...

A man claiming to be President Kennedy's illegitimate son runs for president of the United States. He is Jack Fitzgerald Adams, a charming liar and womanizer whose campaign is organized and financed by a foreign secret service.

"A woman will one day occupy the Oval Office because women themselves have made it inevitable, says best-selling historian Ellen Fitzpatrick. She tells the remarkable 150-year story of the candidates, voters, activists, and citizens who, despite overwhelming odds against women in politics, set their sights on the highest glass ceiling in the land."--Provided by publisher.

For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists,...

"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. For every James Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate, no explanation of defeat can begin with anything other than the core problem of Clinton's campaign--the candidate herself. Through deep access to insiders from the top to the...

Four debates have come and gone, and in the aftermath of the pomp, points, and politics, what have we learned? And how has democracy been served? In this edition of Moyers & Company, two of the country's most astute political media observers-Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Marty Kaplan-join Bill to weigh in on the rhetoric and realities of two campaigns now in the home stretch and looking to make their cases by any means affordable. Jamieson is director...

Autobiography of the former Texas governor and politician discussing his political career and personal life. "In June 1993, John Connally, a legend in Texas and a powerful figure in national politics for several crucial decades of this turbulent century, died of complications of pulmonary fibrosis, a condition brought on by wounds sustained from an assassin's bullet that fateful day in Dallas - November 22, 1963. In History's Shadow, finished right...

A biography of Connally's life includes his twenty years of political power, his return to Texas and riches, and then bankruptcy.

Although Robert Kennedy is probably best remembered today for the 1968 presidential campaign and his years as Attorney General in his brother's administration, his real political legacy was forged in the Senate. Without his Senate years, Robert Kennedy would probably not have bid for the presidency in 1968, run in the California primary election, or been assassinated. It was in the Senate that his political development took shape, as he changed from...