Biography & Autobiography - Political

Homage to Catalonia is political journalist and novelist George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War...Author: George OrwellISBN-10: 1644394146ISBN-13: 9781644394144Publisher: Indoeuropeanpublishing.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/2020Pages: 176Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Frank Russell was the grandson of Prime Minister Lord John Russell and elder brother of philosopher and political activist Bertrand Russell. He was, in his own right, a radical political reformer and outspoken self-determined moralist. He was also the black sheep of his illustrious...

In the 1960s and 70s Ferdinand Marcos ruled the Philippine Islands with the closed fist of a dictator. Families lived in fear, dissenters, political rivals and trouble makers were tossed into Manila's Fort Bonifacio Prison to face an uncertain fate. This is the memoir...

Thomas E. Dewey, The Hanley Letter, and W. Kingsland Macy addresses two matters. The first is the 1950 New York gubernatorial race: Lieutenant Governor Joe R. Hanley's commencement of a speaking tour in April, Governor Dewey not yet having made known his intention regarding...

Winner, Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction AwardFinalist, APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award and George Borden Writing for Change AwardAlexa McDonough's impact on Canadian politics cannot be measured solely by election victories or seat tallies. As the first female leader of a mainstream Canadian political party, she...

HOW CHINA'S MOST CELEBRATED VIOLIN PRODIGY BECAME AN ENEMY OF THE STATE.The King of Violins is the heartbreaking story of China's most celebrated violin prodigy, Ma Sicong, who composed his first concerto at the age of 12. During his career, this gentle, dignified man...

Of One Blood All Nations chronicles the life of John Bingham starting with his childhood in Ohio through his diplomatic career in Meiji Japan. Called the father of the 14th Amendment, John Bingham was a key political figure in America's Reconstruction era. His twelve...

Bob Hawke's death in May 2019 sparked national mourning across the country as we remembered just how important Bob had been in the shaping of modern Australia. In an age when political personas have become increasingly formulaic and predictable, Bob was a man of...

Whenever anyone tells you that only the big parties or star candidates have a chance of winning a seat in federal parliament, just say 'Cathy McGowan'. Running as a community-backed independent candidate, Cathy won the previously safe Liberal seat of Indi in 2013 and...

National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistCalifornia Book Award Winner "The Crusades of Cesar Chavez is a biography for readers who find real human beings more compelling than icons." --Los Angeles Times Cesar Chavez founded a labor union, launched a movement, and inspired a generation....

In a career spanning forty years, Angus Roxburgh lived and worked in Russia as a literary translator, as Moscow correspondent of the Sunday Times and the BBC, and as a media consultant to the Kremlin. He witnessed Russian history unfolding at first hand -...

M. Stanton Evans (d. 2015) was one of the unsung heroes and key figures of the modern conservative movement, offering a model to be remembered and emulated in both thought and deed. A person of extraordinary breadth, he combined the roles of journalist, first-rank...

From the Preface of Confessions of a Guerrilla Writer, 3rd Edition: For most of my adult life, I have worked as a fiercely independent investigative journalist, specializing on investigations of organized crime.Although my career-long obsession revolves around the 1975 disappearance of former Teamsters president...

In the tradition of Notorious RBG, a lively celebration of the life, wisdom, wit, legacy, and fearless style of iconic American Congresswoman Maxine Waters."Let me just say this: I'm a strong black woman, and I cannot be intimidated. I cannot be undermined. I cannot...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...

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...

Within Argentina, Juan Domingo Per n continues to be the subject of exaggerated and diametrically opposed views. A dictator, a great leader, the hero of the working classes and Argentina's "first worker"; a weak and spineless man dependent on his strongerwilled wife; a Latin...

Within Argentina, Juan Domingo Per continues to be the subject of exaggerated and diametrically opposed views. A dictator, a great leader, the hero of the working classes and Argentina's "first worker"; a weak and spineless man dependent on his strongerwilled wife; a Latin American...

Why do so many Americans have negative perceptions of immigrants? What kind of struggles come with moving to a foreign country? In Almost American, author Billie Tuvshinbayar talks openly about what it means to be an immigrant in America. After moving from Mongolia to...

New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist, Nina Burleigh, explores "the stark details of the forces that shaped [Donald] Trump's thinking about women" (The New York Times) in this comprehensive, provocative, and critical account of the six women who have been closest to...

THEODORE ROOSEVELT Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States, and proved to be one of the most popular and progressive President's in history. This book aims to serve as a biography of Roosevelt, documenting his journey in politics, and painting a...

THEODORE ROOSEVELT This 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...

*Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts*Includes a bibliography for further reading"I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat." - James GarfieldHe...

*Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts*Includes a bibliography for further reading"I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat." - James GarfieldHe...

A deeply moving memoir about the year that would forever change both a family and a country.In November 2014, 13 members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past 40 years; it was the...

Journeys with Jimmy Carter and Other Adventures in Media reveals deep knowledge of elections, traditional and new media, and the importance of seeking new journeys throughout one's life.Assistant to Jimmy Carter, Emmy-winning producer for CBS coverage of the first man on the moon and...

When actions of the past clash with the values of today Millard Fillmore Caldwell (1897-1984) was once considered one of the greatest Floridians of his generation. Yet today he is known for his inability to adjust to the racial progress of the modern world....

2020 Discovery Awards Winner - Politics/Current Events"A well-written memoir chronicling the intriguing life and influences of a post-war Jewish child who becomes an American lawyer and activist." -Sublime Book ReviewBecoming American is the inspiring story of the author's transformation from a child of Holocaust...

This page-turning biographical novel follows the footsteps of a forgotten legend of the Russian Revolution, from Odessa to Moscow, Istanbul, and beyond. Yakov Blumkin claimed to have had nine lives. Born to a poor Jewish family and orphaned as a child, he was a...

*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading"In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science." - Mustafa Kemal Atat...

What J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the rural South, in this important book that illuminates the lives of America's forgotten black working-class men...

Over the course of his long and storied career, George Mitchell proved to be much more than just that senator from Maine. He is one of the last from a sort of "golden age" of American politics, when opposing parties worked together to accomplish...

"To understand the logic of chaos"The book "The Key to Understanding Donald J. Trump" tries to get beyond the smokescreen, and to understand the behavior of Donald Trump, which sometimes seems to elusive - having neither pattern nor order.Whether you are a fan or...

The story of a federal minister's remarkable reunion with his birth parents. Robert Tickner had always known he was adopted, but had rarely felt much curiosity about his origins. Born in 1951, he had a happy childhood--raised by his loving adoptive parents, Bert and...

Book I is a narrative study of Abraham Lincoln's intellectual, emotional and character growth from childhood to adulthood. This book examines Abraham's fourteen-year frontier life in Pigeon Creek, Indiana. There he was known as the boy with ax and book working in the forests...

Deftly combining social satire with political critique, Taunsvi anticipates Manto's Partition fiction, written after 1948... The Sixth River is a most welcome addition to the burgeoning personal narratives on Punjab's and India's partition.' --Ayesha Jalal, Mary Richardson Professor of History, Tufts UniversityThe Partition of...

*Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of ancient accounts*Includes a bibliography for further readingRome faced many formidable enemies over the course of nearly 1,000 years, but perhaps none are as enigmatic and forgotten as King Mithridates the Great of Pontus. Despite numerous ancient sources detailing the life...

William Butler Yeats had an extra-marital lover, Lily O'Neill or Honor Bright, from 1918 to 1925. Garda Superintendent Leopold Dillon murdered her on orders from Kevin O'Higgins, Minister of Justice of the Irish Free State. George, Senator Yeats's wife, reported falsely that Lily was...

'A comprehensive narrative in which fact and anecdote...are combined to produce a very detailed but readable story.' - Sunday TimesTo an extent which nobody but the man himself could have believed possible, General de Gaulle imposed his vision upon a country - and even...

Because of the many roles he has played in the country, Looking Back is much more than Dr. Sama Banya's life story. In a lively and entertaining manner, he takes the reader through the chequered history of Sierra Leone from the colonial era to...

Janet Kataaha Museveni is the First Lady of Uganda since May 1986. She is married to Yoweri Museveni, with whom she has four children. She is the current Minister for Karamoja Affairs in Uganda's Cabinet She was appointed to that position on 27 May...

Makham Singh (-1973) was an Indian settler in Kenya, who became a founding father of the trade union movement, and a leading opponent of the colonial state. He is distinguished by his consciously multi-racialist politics and his indomitable spirit. Ahead of his times, Singh...

Rachel Cartland came to Hong Kong in 1972 as one of just two female expatriates in the Hong Kong Government's elite administrative grade. Before she retired in 2006, her life was shaped by the events that rocked Hong Kong during those momentous years: corruption...

"Robert Taylor, one of the most prominent scholars in Myanmar studies, has written an illuminating study of Ne Win, the most enigmatic and controversial of the first generation of post-independence Southeast Asian leaders, and how he steered a then largely unknown country, Burma (now...

Dr Comber's account of General Templer's administration in Malaya as High Commissioner and Director of Operations (1952-54) during the Malayan Emergency departs from the usually accepted orthodox assessment of his time in Malaya by focusing on the political and socioeconomic aspects of his governance...

Since his undergraduate days in Cambridge, George Yeo has spoken and written much in and out of government. Many remember the things which he said or wrote years ago. This book is a compilation of some of his best speeches and writings which were...

"Irene Ng has written a book that gives a comprehensive portrayal of Mr Rajaratnam - one of Singapore's outstanding leaders who played a crucial part in the momentous and crisis-ridden transition to iindependence. This is a book about the man and his wisdom. One...

This book aims to celebrate the many contributions of Professor Tommy Koh as a Singaporean diplomat, public intellectual and social changemaker.It is an account of the ideas and ideals of an extraordinary Singaporean public servant who was not only born with the talent and...

There is an endless supply of rave reviews for Alan Greenspan and the Fed. This is due to Greenspan's political manipulations, the reluctance of politicians to challenge the Federal Reserve, the press corps' willingness to trade glowing reviews for access, and private economists with...

David Marshall (1908-1995) was one of Singapore's most remarkable sons. The eldest son of migrant Sephardic Jews, Marshall's brilliant academic career at Raffles Institution was brought to an abrupt end when he collapsed from tuberculosis. Sent away to recuperate in Switzerland, Marshall not only...