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-- Crown.[2020]., Adults, 090700., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD VID Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: During the period between 1964 and 1977: the royal family mourns the passing of Winston Churchill; the United Kingdom ushers in a new prime minister, the Labour Party's Harold Wilson whom Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth hear might be a Soviet spy; survives the Aberfan disaster; observes the Apollo 11 moon landing; and plans for the Investiture of Prince Charles. While Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon visit the USA, the queen, at the bidding of Harold Wilson, asks them to make a side trip to Washington, D.C. to ask President Johnson for financial assistance for the United Kingdom.
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-- Crown.[2018]., Adults, 100800., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD VID Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Season two follows Queen Elizabeth through the late 1950s and early '60s as she struggles to navigate a world that's changing around her. She must face the challenges of a new era, from the Suez Canal crisis to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, while preserving both the monarchy and her marriage.
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-- Crown : season one.Adults Call No: DVD VID Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne ... a new era is dawning. Queen Elizabeth II is a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. Contains ten episodes.
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1986., 5-8; 8.2, Chelsea House Publishers Call No: J BIO 954.04 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: World leaders past & presentSummary Note: Describes how Indira Gandhi's life was intertwined with the political development of India, eventually leading her to become prime minister.
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., Young Adult, Little, Brown Call No: BIOG 941.084 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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1987, c1930., Scribner Call No: BIOG 941.082 Edition: Scribner pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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1986., 5-8; 8.5, Chelsea House Publishers Call No: J BIO 971.064 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: World leaders past & presentSummary Note: Follows the life and career of the French-Canadian as he rose to power as prime minister of Canada.
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[2020]., Adults, Crown Call No: BIOG 940.54 2121 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally-and willing to fight to the end. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Churchill taught the British people "the art of being fearless." It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it's also an intimate domestic drama set against the backdrop of Churchill's prime-ministerial country home, Chequers; his wartime retreat, Ditchley, where he and his entourage go when the moon is brightest and the bombing threat is highest; and of course 10 Downing Street in London. Drawing on diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports-some released only recently-Larson provides a new lens on London's darkest year through the day-to-day experience of Churchill and his family: his wife, Clementine; their youngest daughter, Mary, who chafes against her parents' wartime protectiveness; their son, Randolph, and his beautiful, unhappy wife, Pamela; Pamela's illicit lover, a dashing American emissary; and the cadre of close advisers who comprised Churchill's "Secret Circle," including his lovestruck private secretary, John Colville; newspaper baron Lord Beaverbrook; and the Rasputin-like Frederick Lindemann. The Splendid and the Vile takes readers out of today's political dysfunction and back to a time of true leadership, when-in the face of unrelenting horror-Churchill's eloquence, courage, and perseverance bound a country, and a family, together."--