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In the highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency -- a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil. Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political...
2) Masked prey
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"The daughter of a U.S. senator is monitoring her social media presence when she finds a picture of herself on a strange blog. And there are other pictures...of the children of other influential Washington politicians, walking or standing outside their schools, each identified by name. Surrounding the photos are texts of vicious political rants from a motley variety of radical groups. It's obviously alarming -- is there an unstable extremist tracking...
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2011
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Susan Callisto is pushing thirty and taking stock. The man in her life, Massachusetts Police Lieutenant Michael Benedict, has unaccountably left her without a word of goodbye. Wounded but full of pride, Susan at first wonders why and then shrugs and decides to forget about him. Who needs a moody piece of work like Michael, anyway? Certainly not Susan who, transitioning from lawyer to political consultant, is far too busy to think about love—except
...4) Season 1
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2020.
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In ALONE, ten men are left in solitude, and separated from each other, in the harsh Vancouver Island wilderness. With no camera crews or producers, they have to survive using only what they can stuff into a backpack.
6) Party of two
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2020.
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"A chance meeting with a handsome stranger turns into a whirlwind affair that gets everyone talking. Dating is the last thing on Olivia Monroe's mind when she moves to LA to start her own law firm. But when she meets a gorgeous man at a hotel bar and they spend the entire night flirting, she discovers too late that he is none other than hotshot junior senator Max Powell. Olivia has zero interest in dating a politician, but when a cake arrives at her...
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2022.
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Ken Burns’s four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin, explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century’s most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States. “Write things worth reading,” he said in Poor Richard’s Almanack, “or do things worth the writing.” Benjamin Franklin did both.
9) Caligula
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2020.
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Caligula was a notoriously sadistic Roman Emperor with a wanton disregard for life.
10) The Mormons
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2020.
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Mormons built a politically powerful religion based on family, faith and clean living. But they also built Las Vegas, they owned brothels.
12) Pablo Escobar
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2020.
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Pablo Escobar was Colombia's king of cocaine, a man his own government was afraid to touch. But he also violated the dead.
14) A Call To Valor
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2020.
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In the Pacific, Johnson is nearly killed in a twist of fate, and JFK's PT boat is blown up, Reagan becomes the popular face of the American soldier.
15) J. Edgar Hoover
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2020.
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J. Edgar Hoover ran the FBI for almost 40 years and was America's most respected, and feared, lawman.
17) Adolf Hitler
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2020.
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Adolph Hitler was history's most notorious anti-Semite, so hell-bent on world domination that his Nazi war machine inflicted death and destruction on millions of innocent victims.
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2022.
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Leaving behind his Boston childhood, Benjamin Franklin reinvents himself in Philadelphia where he builds a printing empire and a new life with his wife Deborah. Turning to science, Franklin gains worldwide fame from his lightning rod and experiments in electricity. After entering politics, he spends years in London trying to keep Britain and America together as his own family starts to come apart.
19) The OK Corral
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2020.
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The OK Corral was the site of the world's most famous Wild West gunfight. But the shootout didn't actually happen at the OK Corral.
20) Abraham Lincoln
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2020.
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Abraham Lincoln was the steady hand of leadership during the Civil War, only to be gunned down in his prime at Ford's Theater.
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