Andrea Balis
Dr. Andrea Balis is a member of the faculty of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, where she specializes in twentieth-century political history. She has also written extensively for the theater, worked as a director, and authored two books for young people, What Are You Using? A Birth Control Guide for Teenagers and a novel, P.J.
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Bringing Down a President
- By: Andrea Balis
- Narrator: Liisa Ivary
- Length: 3 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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A middle-grade retelling of Richard Nixon’s downfall, Bringing Down a President: The Watergate Scandal is an inventive and timely look at one of the biggest scandals to ever rock our nation by Andrea Balis and Elizabeth Levy.
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