Biography & Autobiography - Political

"After years of searching and some spectacular professional successes, Mike Farrell made an uncompromising commitment to his fiercest passion--a love of global fairness, collaboration, and civility. This is a fascinating account of that journey." --Governor Mario Cuomo"Mike Farrell's personal journey is a wonder in...

One of the best-known Boston politicians of our times recalls the life of the controversial but beloved mayor, congressman, and governor James Michael Curley. Curley was the greatest Irish-American politician in Boston history before John F. Kennedy, who actually won Curley's seat in Congress....

THEODORE ROOSEVELTThis book aims to serve as a biography of Teddy Roosevelt, and details the incredible life he lived, as well as the large impact he had on the United States of America. Throughout this book, you will learn about Roosevelt's childhood, his formative...

Richard Reynell Bellamy joined Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists soon after it was founded, and in the role of National Inspector he not only came to know just about every British Blackshirt worth knowing, but also attended all of the major rallies and...

This book is a biographical account of a very eventful and stormy period of the occupation of Palestine, told by the late Archbishop of Jerusalem, Hilarion Cappuci. Capucci explains how he joined the ecclesiastical hierarchy and why he became intimately involved with the Palestinian...

This book provides an introduction to the early writings and political activism of Fayez Sayegh, whose passionate and prolific intellectual career was well known within academia and beyond.Today, Fayez Sayegh is mainly known as an articulate defender of the Palestinian cause at the UN...

Shot at, bombed, imprisoned and arrested for murder. His is the story the establishment doesn't want you to read.Captain P. J. "Red" Riley is an ex-SAS soldier who served for eighteen years as an MI6 agent.Riley escaped internment in Chile during the Falklands war...

Sequel to 'Me and the Generals of the Revolutionary Council'Myanmar is once again at a critical crossroad with a general election and important decisions to be made. These memoirs look back to events leading up to 1960 and put on record some of the...

Can you name the creator of the Territorial Army, the British Expeditionary Force, the Imperial General Staff, and the Officers' Training Corps? The man who laid the foundation stones of MI5, MI6, the RAF, the LSE, Imperial College, the "redbrick" universities, and the Medical...

A revealing biography of Mike Pence, the most secretive vice president in modern history, from a reporter with unprecedented access."I'm a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican . . . in that order." --Mike PenceAs the impeachment of President Donald Trump remains a constant...

THE FLAGSHIP 2019 RELEASE OF #MERKY BOOKS____________________________'Brilliant' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS'Hugely important' PAULA AKPAN'Essential' BERNARDINE EVARISTO____________________________As a minority in a predominantly white institution, taking up space is an act of resistance. Recent Cambridge grads Chelsea and Ore experienced this first-hand, and wrote Taking Up Space as...

Willi M?zenberg was a towering figure in the anti-fascist movement during the first half of the twentieth century. He was acquainted with many of the leading left wing activists and thinkers of his day including Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Karl Radek. He...

Leonard Woolf: Bloomsbury Socialist is an invaluable biography of an extremely important and somewhat neglected figure in British life. Leonard Woolf (1880-1969) was somewhat overshadowed by his wife, Virginia Woolf, and his role in helping her is a part of this study. He was...

Syd Goldsmith's first taste of China's Cultural Revolution is blood on his tongue. It's 1967. Hong Kong is simmering, plagued by communist-led riots and strikes, crippled transport, punishing water-rationing, takeover threats from Beijing and roadside bombs. And Syd -- the only Caucasian Foreign Service...

Hamengku Buwono IX, the late Sultan of Yogyakarta Special Province, is revered by Indonesians as one of the great founders of the modern Indonesian state. He leaves a positive but in some ways ambiguous legacy in political terms. His most conspicuous achievement was the...

The son of a fighter pilot, raised in an air force barracks, Ahmed Aboul Gheit was privy to the confidential meetings, undisclosed memoranda, and battle secrets of Egyptian diplomacy for many decades. After a stint at military college, he began his career at the...

This is the gripping story of Yechiel Kadishai, Menachem Begin s right-hand man and confidant. Kadishai was by Begin s side for decades, from the long years in the desert of opposition to Begin s ascendance to the premiership; from meetings with world leaders...

The Scope of Happiness is the autobiography of an outstanding world figure who was the sister, confidante, and lifelong political associate of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru and the aunt of Indira Gandhi. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit participated in the Indian national struggle for...

""It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of...

An unprecedented and timely collection of writings by and on Jawaharlal Nehru--the man who shaped newly independent India; and the icon whose legacy is the subject of intense and often angry debate today. 'Who is this Bharat Mata, whose victory you wish?' asked Jawaharlal...

As prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill rallied the British people during WWII, and led his country from the brink of defeat to victory. This book gives a brief account of his life and his political career.Author: Zofia StoneISBN-10: 9386019507ISBN-13: 9789386019509Publisher: Alpha EditionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/03/2016Pages:...

Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He initiated World War II and oversaw fascist policies that resulted in millions of deaths. He is probably the most hated and admired personality in world history. This book gives a brief...

'It must be my power, the bat speed I generate, and the swing of the bat...' Mahendra Singh Dhoni is as calm and unruffled a sportsman on the field as he is self-effacing off it. But 'brute strength', 'murderous form' and 'a man possessed'...

Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote. In 1999 Time named Pankhurst as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, stating "she shaped an...

Donald J. Trump is the most vilified American president ever, derided on more front covers than any other. He's been portrayed as the anti-Christ, Adolf Hitler, The Joker, a Ku Klux Klansman, King Kong, a terrorist, a madman, a psychopath, a narcissist, a buffoon...

Colonel Hugh Clark was born on May 6th, 1867 on a farm on the Tenth Concession north of Kincardine, Ontario. He was a schoolteacher, a newspaperman, Lieutenant Colonel in the 32nd Bruce Regiment, and both a Provincial and Federal politician. He was still writing...

Congressman Emanuel Celler (1888-1981) was a New York City congressman who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1923 to 1973. Celler's almost fifty-year career was highlighted by his long fight to eliminate national origin quotas as a basis for immigration restrictions...

The first major study of Karl Kautsky, considered the most influential Marxian theoretician in the world, from 1895 to 1914. Outside of Friedrich Engels, Kautsky did more to popularize Marism than any other person. An entire generation of Marxists, including Lenin and Trotsky, learned...

Robert P. Millon dug deeply into the source materials in Mexico when he wrote this concise but illuminating book about the broader meaning of the movement led by Emiliano Zapata. Zapata's cry for land reform and a democratic transformation of the existing order of...

Memoir of Pat Deluhery, former Iowa state senator and assistant for U.S. Sen. Harold Hughes from 1968 to 1974. Author covers his high school days in Davenport, Iowa; his education at Notre Dame and the London School of Economics; working on Hughes' campaign for...

"Politics makes for strange bedfellows," the old saying goes. Americans, however, often forget the obvious lesson underlying this adage: politics is about winning elections and governing once in office. Voters of all stripes seem put off by the rough-and-tumble horse-trading and deal-making of politics,...

Former Congresswoman Katie Hill shares her experience with misogyny and double standards in politics to help women topple the longstanding power structures that prevent them from achieving equality.Powerful women who dare to make mistakes still face swifter and more brutal consequences than men, as...

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The work details the life and political career of John Baxter Langley, a once infamous but now largely forgotten Victorian reformer. Through a chronological narrative of his activities the work also provides an overview of many of the more significant political causes of the...

High voter turnout in Minnesota is no accident. It arose from the traditions of this state's early Yankee and northern European immigrants, and it has been sustained by wisely chosen election policies. Many of these policies were designed and implemented during the twenty-four-year tenure...

CROSSFIRE HURRICANE DELIVERS THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF HOW WE GOT FROM 2016 TO TODAY, tracing the events that lead this country to a historic impeachment and beyond. "A must-read indictment of the 'mob boss' in the White House." --The Guardian "An indispensable and riveting...

The name Daniel Sickles and the word controversy are synonymous. Any student of 19th century American political history is familiar with Sickles' 1859 murder of Philip Barton Key, the son of Francis Scott Key, who had seduced Sickles' young wife. That murder, because Sickles...

President Erdoğan's resilience as Turkey's leader makes for an extraordinary political study of longevity, charisma and strategic decision-making. Uncovering the person behind the persona, M. Hakan Yavuz draws on 250 first-hand interviews to untangle the web of literary, religious and biographical influences that shaped...

A powerful and revelatory memoir from former CIA director John Brennan, spanning his more than thirty years in government. Friday, January 6, 2017: On that day, as always, John Brennan's alarm clock was set to go off at 4:15 a.m. But nothing else about...

Hamas is designated a terrorist organization by Israel, the EU, the USA and the UN. It has made itself notorious for its violent radicalism and uncompromising rejection of the Jewish state. So after its victory in the 2006 elections the world was watching. How...

A. B. Salem, born into the Paradesi Congregation of Jews in the erstwhile Kingdom of Cochin (now part of the southern Indian state of Kerala), was a lawyer, labour union organizer, ardent Indian nationalist and political leader, Zionist and the man responsible for the...

The definitive biography of Henry Kissinger - at least for those who neither revere nor revile him.Over the past six decades, Henry Kissinger has been America's most consistently praised - and reviled - public figure. He was hailed as a "miracle worker" for his...

One of the least likely survivors of the Jacobin purge of the National Convention in early 1793 was Jean-Baptiste Louvet, the author of the popular eighteenth-century romance Les Amours du Chevalier de Faublas. Had it not been for the upheaval caused by the revolution...

Considered by many the world's greatest composer, Ludwig van Beethoven achieved his ambitions against the difficulties of a bullying and drunken father, growing deafness and mounting ill-health.Here, Anne Pimlott Baker tells the story of the German composer's life and work, from his birth in...

A brand new edition with never before seen images Barack Obama's story inspired a nation, but you've never seen it told like this Pick up this wildly entertaining and factual look at the life of our 44th president from writer Chris Ward and artist...

When Norm Rice was elected mayor of Seattle, it was the most divisive, polarized time in the city's history. African Americans were only 10% of the city's population and Norm's election was ground-breaking. It was 1989 and the city was torn apart over the...

From the author of the Young Pistolero Series, this true tale of an American Hispanic hero is woven with the fantastic history of the American Southwest and the people who settled this vast expanse of land. In the early 1880s the peaceful villages along...

Tigranes the Great ruled the Kingdom of Armenia from 95 to 55 BC. He formed a close alliance with Mithridates VI, Eupator and King of Pontus, to secure each other's flanks from the expansion of Rome.Tigranes' troops, commanded by his generals, entered Mesopotamia and...

No Ordinary Joe: The Life and Career of Joe Biden tells the story of Joseph Robinette Biden. Over the course of his long career, Biden has bounced back from ridiculous gaffes, humiliating scandals, political defeats, unimaginable personal tragedy, and being read the last rites....

'This fascinating biography sets the record straight on a giant of the Labour movement... and contains many lessons for us today.' - Frances O' Grady, TUC General Secretary'Like many trade unionists, Walter Citrine was crucial to my education. A major political figure of the...