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Herbert Hoover: Landslide DVD

Explores the "Hoover Depression," as well as its lasting impact on government and the role of the Federal Reserve. This doc will examine Hoover's early life in Iowa and abroad, the international experiences; that led to his decision to run for office, his presidency and political philosophy, and the lasting impact of his policy decisions.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2009
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Herbert Hoover: Landslide DVD

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Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound DVD/CD & Joan Baez: A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir Book - Save $5!

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Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound DVD/CD & Joan Baez: A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir Book - Save $5!

In the first comprehensive documentary to chronicle the private life and public career of Joan Baez, this film examines her history as a recording artist and performer as well as her unwavering journey as the conscience of a generation. Baez is joined in the film by Bob Dylan, David Crosby, Roger McGuinn, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne and Reverend Jesse Jackson, among others. Buy with A "Voice to Sing With: A Memoir" and save!

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Country Of Origin : United States

Joan Baez: And A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir

Fifty years after her stunning debut at the Newport Folk Festival, Joan Baez remains a musical force whose influence is incalculable. Her voice is part of the soundtrack of a generation, and her commitment to social justice helped form its conscience. Hers is a journey of spirit, told with intimacy and passion as Baez shares her introduction to folk music and her baptism as its first female star in the coffee houses of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Production Year: 2009
Country Of Origin : United States

Joan Baez: And A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir

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American Masters: Trumbo DVD

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American Masters: Trumbo DVD

Trumbo is a unique film about screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and his heroic journey from Hollywood royalty to blacklisted writer to Academy Award® winner. Based on a play by his son Christopher, Trumbo documents the rise of Dalton's career in Hollywood and his subsequent public humiliation from being among the Hollywood Ten blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1940s for communist associations.

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Length: 95 minutes on 1 Disc
Country Of Origin : United States

Wallace Stegner DVD + Five Books, Save $25

Includes the Wallace Stegner DVD, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, Angle of Repose, On Teaching and Writing Fiction, Collected Stories, and Wallace Stegner and the American West.

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Wallace Stegner DVD + Five Books, Save $25

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Wallace Stegner DVD+Wallace Stegner and the American West Book, Save $10

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Wallace Stegner DVD+Wallace Stegner and the American West Book, Save $10

Includes the Wallace Stegner DVD and Wallace Stegner and the American West paperback.

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Wallace Stegner and the American West - Paperback

Renowned environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin reveals the Wallace Stegner behind the literary legacy, a generous teacher, conservationist, and man whose early landscapes shaped his life and character. Fradkin chronicles Stegner's formative years, from the raw, desolate plains of Saskatchewan and the canyonlands of Utah to Silicon Valley and shows how this child of the fading frontier became the voice, protector, and icon of the West.

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Production Year: 2009
Country Of Origin : United States

Wallace Stegner and the American West - Paperback

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Wallace Stegner DVD

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Wallace Stegner DVD

Wallace Stegner who was an acclaimed writer, conservationist, and teacher, became one of America's most notable writers with books like the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and Beyond the Hundredth Meridian. This biographical film paints a portrait of the West that Stegner so loved and reveals insights into his life through interviews with his famous students, contemporaries and family. Peter Coyote narrates.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2009
Length: 57 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-G
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Sergio Vieira de Mello: En Route to Baghdad DVD

Sergio Vieira de Mello was one of the most tireless and effective advocates for peace and stability the world has ever known traversing the globe using his uncommon diplomatic skills to accomplish the impossible. On August 19th, 2003, a bomb exploded outside the UN headquarters in Baghdad and among the 22 killed was Sergio. This award-winning documentary features stories and reminiscences of colleagues and luminaries whose lives he touched.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2005
Length: 56 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Sergio Vieira de Mello: En Route to Baghdad DVD

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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West - Paperback

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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West - Paperback

In this book Wallace Stegner recounts the successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest and warned against the dangers of settling it.

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Production Year: 1992
Country Of Origin : United States

Inventing LA: The Chandlers and Their Times DVD

Ground-breaking documentary employs exclusive, unprecedented access to personal and professional archives to trace the single-family reign of four publishers of the Los Angeles Times.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2009
Length: 120 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Inventing LA: The Chandlers and Their Times DVD

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American Masters: Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes DVD

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American Masters: Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes DVD

America's foremost humorist and commentator, Garrison Keillor takes his skits and jokes, music and monologues across the country in his traveling radio show, spinning his stories into American gold. This freeform, intimate look at the private man in the public spotlight goes behind the scenes of America's most popular radio show, A Prairie Home Companion, and inside the imagination of the man who created it.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2008
Length: 86 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-PG
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: Stranded DVD

How far would you go to stay alive? Thirty years later the survivors of the well-known 1972 Andes plane crash recall what it took to live in the mountains for over 60 days with no food, water, or supplies. What they reveal is a story about one of humanity's greatest taboos and one that asks the question, what would you do?

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2008
Length: 126 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-14
Subtitles: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Independent Lens: Stranded DVD

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The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now - Book (Hardcover)

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The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now - Book (Hardcover)

The Lincoln Anthology brings together for the first time 110 insightful and imaginative selections by a diverse array of 95 writers from William Cullen Bryant to E. L. Doctorow. Here is a composite portrait of our greatest president told by the journalists, biographers, satirists, essayists, novelists, historians, statesmen and others who have shaped our understanding of Lincoln and his complex and crucial legacy over the last 150 years.

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Production Year: 2008
Country Of Origin : United States

The Powder and the Glory DVD & Book - Save $5.00

Based on British author Lindy Woodhead's bestselling book War Paint: Madame Helena Rubinstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden, their lives, their times and their rivalry, this film focuses on two women from meager means who immigrated to the US nearly a hundred years ago, reinvented themselves and ultimately created the cosmetics, health, and beauty industry we know today. Purchase the DVD and book together and save...

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The Powder and the Glory DVD & Book - Save $5.00

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War Paint: Madame Helena Rubenstein & Miss Elizabeth Arden Book

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War Paint: Madame Helena Rubenstein & Miss Elizabeth Arden Book

Nearly forty years after their deaths, War Paint goes behind the gloss and glamour of the modern beauty industry to tell the riveting true story of Madame Helena Rubinstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden, their epic achievements and no less epic rivalry.

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Country Of Origin : United States

The Powder and the Glory DVD

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2007
Length: 90 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-G
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

The Powder and the Glory DVD

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Betty Ford: The Real Deal DVD

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Betty Ford: The Real Deal DVD

Betty Ford: The Real Deal profiles Betty Ford, her time in the White House, advocacy for equal rights and her substance addiction that led to the founding of the Betty Ford Center in California

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2009
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Rating: TV-G
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

American Experience: The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer DVD

J. Robert Oppenheimer's life and legacy are inextricably linked to America's most famous top-secret initiative - the Manhattan Project. But after World War II, this brilliant and intense scientist fell from the innermost circles of American science, and at the height of the Red Scare, the veil of suspicion fell over Oppenheimer. This biography presents a complex and revealing portrait of one of America's most influential scientists.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2009
Length: 120 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

American Experience: The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer DVD

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Looking for Lincoln Book

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Looking for Lincoln Book

Told through the voices of those who knew the man, Northerners and Southerners, blacks and whites, neighbors and family members, adversaries and colleagues, and through stories carefully selected from long-forgotten newspapers, magazines, and family scrapbooks, Looking for Lincoln charts the dramatic epilogue to Lincoln's extraordinary life.

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Production Year: 2008
Country Of Origin : United States

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