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by
Martelle, Scott, 1958- author.
Publication Date
2019
Summary
"William Walker's Wars details the little-remembered history of the American man who, with the help of a privately assembled army, installed himself as president of Nicaragua in 1856"--
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Books
ISBN
9781613737293
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Filibusters -- United States -- Biography.
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Cox, Alex, 1954- film director, film editor.
Edition
Director-approved special edition ; widescreen.
Publication Date
2007 1987
Summary
The life of William Walker, a 19th century adventurer who abandoned his career in law and politics to become a soldier of fortune and dictator of Nicaragua.
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Video disc
ISBN
9781604650150
UPC
715515028028 g2012:439100 00715515028028
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Filibusters -- Nicaragua -- Biography.
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by
Oleszek, Walter J., author.
Edition
[Library of Congress public edition].
Publication Date
2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
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Electronic Resources
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Filibusters (Political science) -- United States.
by
Heitshusen, Valerie, author.
Edition
[Library of Congress public edition].
Publication Date
2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
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Electronic Resources
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Filibusters and cloture in the Senate [electronic resource] / Heitshusen, Valerie, author.
by
Beth, Richard S., author.
Edition
[Library of Congress public edition].
Publication Date
2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
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Electronic Resources
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Filibusters (Political science) -- United States.
by
Heitshusen, Valerie, author.
Edition
[Library of Congress public edition].
Publication Date
2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
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Electronic Resources
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Filibusters (Political science) -- United States.
by
Davis, Christopher M., 1966- author.
Edition
[Library of Congress public edition].
Publication Date
2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
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Electronic Resources
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Filibusters (Political science) -- United States.
by
Jentleson, Adam, author.
Edition
First edition.
Publication Date
2021
Summary
"An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical minority of Americans are using "the greatest deliberative body in the world" to hijack our democracy. Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the US Senate, yet the Senate allows an almost exclusively white, predominantly male, and radically conservative minority of the American electorate to impose its will on the rest of us. How did we get to this point? In Kill Switch, Adam Jentleson argues that shifting demographics alone cannot explain how Mitch McConnell harnessed the Senate and turned it into a powerful weapon of minority rule. As Jentleson shows, since the 1950s, a free-flowing body of relative equals has devolved into a rigidly hierarchical, polarized institution, with both Democrats and Republicans to blame. The current GOP has merely used the methods pioneered by its predecessors, though to newly extreme ends. In a work for readers of How Democracies Die and even Master of the Senate, Jentleson makes clear that, without a reevaluation of Senate practices-starting with ending the filibuster-we face the prospect of permanent minority rule in America"--
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Books
ISBN
9781631497773
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Filibusters (Political science) -- United States.
by
Dando-Collins, Stephen.
Publication Date
2008
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Books
ISBN
9780306816079
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