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Pippa Norris

PIPPA NORRIS is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She has also served recently as the Director of the Democratic Governance Group at the United Nations Development Program in New York. Her research compares gender politics, democracy, elec....[more]

Carol M. Swain

Carol M. Swain’s work on representation and race relations has earned her national and international accolades. Her highly acclaimed book, Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress (1993, 1995 Harvard University Press; reprinted in 2006 by University Press of America) was named o....[more]

Beth J. Harpaz

Beth J. Harpaz is the author of three books: "13 Is the New 18... and other things my children taught me while I was having a nervous breakdown being their mother," a funny book about raising adolescents; "The Girls in the Van," about covering Hillary Clinton's first Senate campaign for The Associated Press; and "Findi....[more]

Carolyn Jourdan

Carolyn Jourdan’s memoir, "Heart in the Right Place", is on five national lists of the best books of the year and the funniest books ever. The “hilarious and heartbreaking” true story concerns a family emergency that forced Carolyn to abandon Washington and her glamorous career as a Senate lawyer and return home to th....[more]

Biography & Autobiography, Fiction, History, Juvenile Nonfiction, Political Science

When he was elected the nation's thirty-fifth President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy became the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic elected to the Oval Office. Some Americans had opposed his candidacy because they feared that his religion would influence his decisions as President. Yet fascination with his personalit....[more]

John McCain

Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, Computers, Family & Relationships, Juvenile Nonfiction, Law, Performing Arts, Political Science, Religion, Sports & Recreation, Technology & Engineering, Transportation

Barack Obama

Biography & Autobiography, History, Juvenile Fiction, Language Arts & Disciplines, Political Science

President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961. He graduated with a degree in political science from Columbia University in 1983. Before moving to Chicago in 1985, he worked at Business International Corporation and then at the New York Public Interest Research Group. In Chicago, he worked as a c....[more]