Biography & Autobiography - Political

Big Birds are rare in Palestine. Daoud Kuttab knows. The ups and downs of producing a world-famous children's program quickly escalated into more than just teaching Elmo to speak Arabic like the new Palestinian characters, Kareem and Hanin. The executive producer of the Palestinian...

Bobby Kennedy's last campaign--an homage to a leader who might have changed history and a reconstruction of the conspiracy to stop him, in a magisterial feat of epic investigative poetry. June 5, 2018, is the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy,...

The most interesting man in the world? At times, Ed Hale made the Dos Equis guy look like a shut-in. Now for the first time, Hale's inspiring story is told in the pages of Hale Storm. It's a rollicking, inspirational tale like no other:...

Awarded The New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2017Lost Tycoon presents an unvarnished, in-depth portrayal of the man who vows to "Make America Great Again." Although first published in 1993, Lost Tycoon shows us that The Donald's personal character, political philosophy, business ethics,...

Like the movie Marshall, this book--theonly biography of Thurgood Marshall to be endorsed by Marshall's immediate family--focuses on his early civil rights struggles andsuccesses beforeBrown v. Board of Education.Thurgood Marshall was the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century. He transformed the nation's...

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi--known to the world as an icon for democracy and nonviolent dissent in oppressed Burma, and to her followers as simply "The Lady"--has recently returned to international headlines. Now, this major new biography offers essential reading at...

"You'll never walk again." California Senator Omer Rains had been a politician on the global stage, a power-broking lawyer of A-list celebrities, and conqueror of some of the highest mountains in the world. But when a paralyzing brain aneurysm and stroke hit him at...

Meetings with remarkable activists since the 1960s American social change movements dominated the 1960s and 1970s, an era brought about and influenced not by a handful of celebrity activists but by people who cared. These history makers together transformed the political and spiritual landscape...

Today, diverse women of all hues represent this country overseas. Some have called this development the "Hillary Effect." But well before our most recent female secretary of state there was Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve in that capacity, and later Condoleezza Rice....

A personal account of Lenin's life and thought, written by the woman who knew him best.Author: Nadezhda Konstantinova KrupskayaISBN-10: 1608467899ISBN-13: 9781608467891Publisher: Haymarket BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/20/2018Pages: 560Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.90d

In 1970, a jury convicted Robert Hillary King of a crime he did not commit and sentenced him to 35 years in prison. He became a member of the Black Panther Party while in Angola State Penitentiary, successfully organizing prisoners to improve conditions. In...

This is the story of a house, "Brierfield," and incidentally of a man, Jefferson Davis, and his family. The author traces the story of "Brierfield" from its construction in the antebellum period to its final disappearance in the twentieth century, a victim of war,...

Born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation, John Roy Lynch (1847-1939) came to adulthood during the Reconstruction Era and lived a public-spirited life for over three decades. His political career began in 1869 with his appointment as justice of the peace. Within the year,...

In the 1930s thousands of African Americans abandoned their long-standing allegiance to the party of Abraham Lincoln and began voting for Democratic Party candidates. This new voting pattern remapped the nation's political landscape and altered the relationship between citizen and government. One of the...

He was Nixon's hatchet man. A jailed felon. And now, one of the most significant Christian leaders of our time. Here is his life story.Charles Colson has become one of the most revered leaders of our time. His ministry outreach, Prison Fellowship, has swelled...

Jimmy Carter - A Nobel President is the biography of Jimmy Carter, he was the thirty-ninth President of the United States serving from 1977 - 1981, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Prior to becoming president, Carter served two terms in...

Go beyond Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton and get to know the real Alexander Hamilton in this Library of America collection of the Founding Father's own public and private writings. A brash immigrant who rose to become George Washington's right-hand man. A fierce partisan whose nationalist...

In this unauthorized biography, the most authoritative ever written about the controversial Supreme Court Justice, Andrew Peyton Thomas (no relation) explores Clarence Thomas' remarkable rise from a childhood of poverty in segregated Georgia to the nation's highest court. In his attempt to understand what...

The memoir of an influential Marxist scholar, professor and game inventor turned business man, BALL BUSTER? is a business adventure story, with enough ups, downs, victories, defeats and suspense to fill a Hitchcock film. It is also an extremely humorous autobiography, full of irony...

In the 1960s, after four years with IBM and two more with the U.S. State Department, William Blum became a radical dissident. As an insider in two worlds, he is well suited to assess the people, events, and ideology of both the bourgeois and...

Advocate Thuli Madonsela has achieved in her seven years as Public Protector what few accomplish in a lifetime; her legacy and contribution cannot be over-stated. In her final days in office she compiled the explosive State Capture report and, before that, the report on...

A celebration of Steve Biko's legacy of freedom Steve Biko, the founder of the Black Consciousness philosophy, was killed in prison on 12 September 1977. Biko was only thirty years old, but his ideas and political activities changed the course of South African history...

James Larkin (1876-1947) retains a central position in the pantheon of the Irish labour movement. In the popular consciousness he is most commonly linked to his role in the epic 1913 Dublin Lockout and to his turbulent leadership of the Irish Transport and General...

William Smith O'Brien was an improbable revolutionary, ill at ease as a leader of the 1848 rising at Ballingarry, Co. Tipperary, and then as a convict languishing in Van Diemen's Land until 1854. His aristocratic background and demeanor, his late conversion to Repeal in...

Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership in the Second World War once put him above criticism. In recent years his record has come under attack. In Churchill: A Study in Greatness, one of Britain's most distinguished historians makes sense of this extraordinary man and his long,...

The life of a Chinese national hero. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original...

Bernie Sanders's political autobiography, with an updated afterword that brings his story up to the 2020 presidential campaignExplaining where he comes from and how his politics were formed, Senator Bernie Sanders describes in detail how, after cutting his teeth in the Civil Rights movement,...

The compelling story of the life and death of a Salvadoran gangster As a boy, Miguel ngel Tobar's small town in El Salvador was torn apart by guerrillas and US- backed death squads. Still a preteen, he joined a different kind of death squad--the...

A century on from the election of Constance Markievicz, 490 women have now passed through the hallowed doors of Parliament. Each one of these pioneers has fought tenaciously to introduce enduring reform, and in doing so has helped revolutionise Britain's political landscape, ensuring that...

THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF EMMANUEL MACRON IN ENGLISH From total unknown to one of Europe's most powerful men in just a few years, at 39, France's youngest leader since Napoleon is intent on conquering the world stage. But what lies beneath the facade of...

Dennis Skinner, the famed Beast of Bolsover, is adored by legions of supporters and respected as well as feared by admiring enemies. Fiery and forthright, with a prodigious recall, Skinner is one of the best-known politicians in Britain. He remains as passionate and committed...

Now available in paperback, this book critically examines the republican career of one of Ireland's more controversial political figures, Seán MacBride (1904-1988), focusing on his subversive activities prior to his reinvention as a constitutional politician. MacBride, a Nobel and Lenin prize-winning humanitarian, was a...

Greece in the 1960s produced one of Europe's arguably most controversial politicians of the post-war era. The contrarian politics of Andreas Papandreou grew out of his conflict laden re-engagement with Greece in the 1960s. Returning to Athens after 20 years in the US where...

A Globe and Mail Fall 2019 Book to Watch Whoever you are, you are sure to be a severe critic of Fascism, and you must feel the servile shame. But even you are responsible for your inaction. Do not seek to justify yourself with...

The foremost political figure from the years of responsible government in Newfoundland, Robert Bond led a spectacularly successful but often tortured life. Cultured and well-to-do, he tried to play the game of politics like a gentleman, and over a period of 30 years never...

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "I cherish as strong a love for the land of my nativity as any man living. I am proud of her civil, political and religious institutions - of her high...

The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson (April 13 1743 - July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809....

Margaret Bondfield was a woman of many 'firsts': the first woman British government minister, the first in the Cabinet and the first to be President of the Trade Union Congress. She was also a pioneer of women's social, political, workplace rights. As a member...

*Includes pictures *Includes McCarthy's quotes about his own life and career *Includes excerpts of the McCarthy-Army hearings *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and...

Their roots are in the American Revolution, but in a scant two years The Tea Party has been reborn as a vital cog in the modern political wheel. Read all about the rise of The Tea Party and get insight into one of its...

Conspiracies. Espionage. UFOs. Hidden History. Secret Societies. The Paranormal. "Beyond" brings you stories about the secret and suppressed, the stories "They" don't want you to know Take the Red Pill and join your fearless host Virgil Hall as he takes you far, far down...

Political satirist and pundit, writer and producer, actor and comedian, critic and pitchman, host of The Colbert Report and soon The LATE SHOW, family man and.....idiot? ? TidalWave Productions continues their Political Power line of comic books by touching on the life and times...

He has been called "the most dangerous man in America" as well as "the leader of a vast Right Wing Conspiracy." And many politicians, news pundits, and commentators have asked, "Is he good for America?" Those questions are discussed, as well as the revealing...

"This biography recounts a century of accomplishments, from Hechler's introduction of innovative teaching methods at major universities, to his work as a speechwriter and researcher for President Harry Truman, and finally to his time representing West Virginia in the United States House of Representatives...

George Mason of Gunston Hall distinguished himself as a planter, revolutionary patriot, author the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and slave owner. He wrote "that all men are by nature equally free and...have certain inherent rights..." and argued simultaneously that slavery was "that slow Poison,...

For anyone interested in Wisconsin politics during the Walker Era, this book is a must read. Ed Wall tells how he came to Wisconsin to be with his wife's family and continue his career in law enforcement, where he rose to become the respected...

Lowell Thomas Jr. is a famed Alaskan who made his mark as a Bush pilot and by serving in state government, but who also has had a lifetime's worth of adventures that have taken him around the world. Thomas, now eighty-nine, and living in...

From the segregated barrios of the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas, to the halls of Congress and the White House, comes a story based on the memoirs of one of America's premier Latino civil rights leaders: Raul H. Yzaguirre. Born in San Juan,...

In this biography of Joseph E. Davis, elder brother of and adviser to Jefferson Davis, award-winning author Janet Sharp Hermann provides a fascinating instrument through which to observe nearly a century of American history, from the Revolution and the War of 1812 through the...

The highly anticipated fourth installment of the Book of Black Heroes series, Political Leaders Past and Present, spotlights African American who have made valuable contributions in U.S. government leadership. Included are Hiram Revels, P.B.S. Pinchback and Robert Smalls, among the first African Americans to...