Biography & Autobiography - Political

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...

From abject poverty to undisputed political boss of Pennsylvania, Lincoln's secretary of war, senator, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a founder of the Republican Party, Simon Cameron (1799-1889) was one of the nineteenth century's most prominent political figures. In his wake,...

In the spring of 2001, George W. Bush selected Dallas attorney Robert W. Jordan as the ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Jordan's nomination sped through Congress in the wake of the terrorist attacks on 9/11, and he was at his post by early October, though...

No person involved in so much history received so little attention as the late Robert C. Byrd, the longest-serving U.S. senator. In The Last Great Senator, David A. Corbin examines Byrd's complex and fascinating relationships with eleven presidents of the United States, from Eisenhower...

An insider's account of life with Adolf Hitler - now back in print for the first time in 75 years First published in 1938 "I Knew Hitler" is the missing link in the literary trail which traces the fortunes of Adolf Hitler from Linz...

A well-known novelist and journalist from the coastal city of Jableh, Samar Yazbek witnessed the beginning four months of the uprising first-hand and actively participated in a variety of public actions and budding social movements. Throughout this period she kept a diary of personal...

Ted Grant was a well-known figure in the international Marxist movement. He had a significant impact on British politics. When he died all the most important newspapers carried extensive obituaries that recognised this fact. This is a remarkable work that comprehensively covers the development...

Fighting the Mafia is his dramatic tale of witness and survival, of his effort to expose Mafia infiltration of the highest levels of Italy's national politics, and of the movement he helped build-in the schools and churches, and at the ballot box-to recapture Sicilian...

This is the only book-length intellectual biography of sociologist Robert Nisbet (1913-1996). It is now available in quality paperback.Author: Brad Lowell StoneISBN-10: 188292648XISBN-13: 9781882926480Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies InstituteLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2000Pages: 170Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 8.57h x 5.75w x 0.80dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 07/01/2000 pg. 123Booklist 07/01/2000...

Written early in Tate's career, this study of the Confederacy's fallen leader is highly critical of his flaws yet ultimately sympathetic to the Southern cause.Author: Allen TateISBN-10: 1879941244ISBN-13: 9781879941243Publisher: J. S. Sanders and CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/21/1998Pages: 311Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 8.13h x 5.25w x 0.76d

Yvonne Kapp's monumental biography of the daughter of Karl Marx who became a radical activistEleanor Marx is one of the most tragically overlooked radical figures in history, usually overshadowed by her father, Karl. But not only did she edit, translate, transcribe and collaborate with...

This authoritative biography of Britain's youngest Prime Minister in nearly two hundred years provides a fascinating insight into the man only those closest to him know. Based on hundreds of interviews with everyone from Westminster insiders to intimate friends, this book reveals the real...

Partner of one of the most infamous anarchists of her time, Johann Most, Helene Minkin joined the anarchist movement after emigrating from Russia in 1888 with her father and sister. Framed as a reaction and corrective to Emma Goldman's Living My Life, Minkin's memoir...

Leda Rafanelli (1880-1971) was one of the most prolific propagandists in early twentieth century Italy. She began working as a typesetter in her teens, and went on to found and run several publishing houses. Her own body of work included scores of novels, pamphlets,...

Sewing Freedom is the first in-depth study of anarchism in New Zealand during the turbulent years of the early 20th century--a time of wildcat strikes, industrial warfare, and a radical working class counter-culture. Interweaving biography, cultural history, and an array of archival sources, this...

Nunzio Pernicone's biography uses Carlo Tresca's (1879-1943) storied life?as newspaper editor, labor agitator, anarchist, anti-communist, street fighter, and opponent of fascism?as a springboard to investigate Italian immigrant and radical communities in the United States. From his work on behalf of the Industrial Workers of...

Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history...

Sir Robert Peel - paragon or pariah? Peel was the greatest statesman and political leader of mid-Victorian Britain, a titan of Conservative politics, whose legacy has inspired generations in his party and in British political life. In a career spanning forty years he held...

Warwick the Kingmaker was a fifteenth-century celebrity; a military hero, self-publicist and populist. For twelve years he was the arbiter of English politics, not hesitating to set up and put down kings. In the dominant strand of recent English historical writing, Warwick is condemned...

Bobby Sands was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze. He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike in which Irish republican prisoners protested against the removal of Special Category Status....

John Hume - civil rights activist, founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), and leading politician in Northern Ireland during the long period of the Troubles - gained worldwide recognition and respect for his principled opposition to the use of violence...

M. K. Gandhi An Indian Patriot in South Africa Originally published in 1909, this, the first biography of Gandhi, was written when he was in South Africa, fighting for human rights for the Indian settlers. Contents Include: The Batteries on the Reef, The Man...

R.H. Tawney is an iconic thinker in British left-wing circles, whose writings during the early-mid 20th century helped to forge the direction of democratic socialist thinking and Labour Party policies. This book provides a fresh and accessible guide to the ideas of Tawney for...

What do 'Abu Sindi', 'Timothy Sean McCormack', 'Saro', and 'Commander Avo' all have in common? They were all aliases for Monte Melkonian. But who was Monte Melkonian? In his native California he was once a kid in cut-off jeans, playing baseball and eating snow...

Samir Amin, one of the twentieth century's leading radical intellectuals, has lived his personal and political life at the intersection of various cultures and international progressive currents - from Egypt to France to West Africa, from communism to national-liberation socialism, Maoism and finally a...

There are few individuals in modern Spanish history that have been as thoroughly mythologized as José Antonio Primo de Rivera, a leading figure in the Spanish Civil War who was executed by the Republicans in 1936 and celebrated as a martyr following the victory...

Privilege and Prejudice is a stereotype-defying autobiography. It reveals a Black man whose good fortune in birth and heritage and opportunity of time and place helped him to forge breakthroughs in four separate careers. Clifton R. Wharton Jr. entered Harvard at age 16. The...

The powerful true-life story of a Brazilian boy who could have been a fisherman but instead became the biggest professional killer known to the world--soon to be a major motion picture. Julio Santana as seen through the eyes of acclaimed investigative reporter Klester Cavalcanti...

Parecomic is a graphic novel about the system we live in--what's wrong with it, and how we might be able change it for the better. The recent upsurge in popular protest around the world shows that people are not happy with the state of...

Hattie Caraway unexpectedly became the first female U.S. senator in 1931 by filling the seat of her late husband. What her colleagues viewed as an honorary position was in fact the start of a distinguished career. Despite strong male opposition, Hattie won reelection and...

Combining Young Lenin and On Lenin in one volume, this is a fascinating political biography by Lenin's fellow revolutionary, Leon Trotsky. Trotsky on Lenin brings together two long-out-of-print works in a single volume for the first time, providing an intimate and illuminating portrait of...

A political portrait focused on Guevara's thought and political record aimed at dispelling many of the myths about the revolutionary.Author: Samuel FarberISBN-10: 1608466019ISBN-13: 9781608466016Publisher: Haymarket BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/26/2016Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d

A collection of intimate portraits told directly by people whose lives have been devastated by solitary confinement in America.Author: Taylor PendergrassISBN-10: 1608465314ISBN-13: 9781608465316Publisher: Haymarket BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/20/2018Pages: 345Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d

Lydersen lambasts Chicago's nationally recognized mayor for his obedient endorsement of the devastating austerity agenda set forth by the one-percent.Author: Kari LydersenISBN-10: 1608462226ISBN-13: 9781608462223Publisher: Haymarket BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/12/2013Pages: 308Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 10/14/2013Booklist 11/01/2013 pg. 14

When Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik party led the first successful workers revolution in history, they were under no illusions that their work was finished with the overthrow of capitalism in Russia. As the fledgling workers' state was gripped by a civil war, the...

InFidel and Gabo, Marquez scholars Angel Esteban and Stephanie Panichelli examine this strange, intimate, and incredibly controversial friendship between the beloved author and Cuban dictator, exposing facets of their personalities never before revealed to the greater public. For years, Marquez, long fascinated with power,...

Henry Morgenthau, Jr. was a young man living in an interesting political and social atmosphere. Surrounded by people who viewed the world through a Social Darwinist lens, and grappling with his identity as an American Jew during the atrocities of WWII in Europe, Henry...

Winston Churchill - Biography of a Nobel Statesmen is a biography of Winston Churchill, a British politician and wartime prime minister who led his country to victory in World War Two. Among his notable achievements, Churchill was a master statesman and strategist, an officer...

Sir Francis Bacon - English Philosopher and Statesman is the biography of Sir Francis Bacon, an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist. Bacon is also known as a proponent of the scientific revolution. According to John Aubrey, his dedication may have brought him into a...

Heinrich Himmler - Founder of the Nazi Concentration Camps is the biography of Heinrich Himmler, a commander of the Schutzstaffel (SS), as well as one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. As Reichsf hrer-SS he controlled the SS, and to a degree,...

Rasputin - The Mad Monk is a biography of Grigori Rasputin, the famous Russian mystic, psychic and faith healer. Rasputin was perceived as having influenced the later days of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II and was said to have intentionally discredited the Tsarist government,...

John Marshall (1755-1835) became the fourth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court despite having had almost no formal schooling and after having studied law for a mere six weeks. Nevertheless, Marshall remains the only judge in American history whose distinction derives almost entirely...

The memoir of a beloved San Antonio public servantAuthor: Lila Banks CockrellISBN-10: 1595349111ISBN-13: 9781595349118Publisher: Maverick BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2020Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbs

New details of the remarkable relationship between two leaders who teamed up to change history. It's well known that Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were close allies and kindred political spirits. During their eight overlapping years as U.S. president and UK prime minister, they...

From London's inimitable mayor, Boris Johnson, the story of how Churchill's eccentric genius shaped not only his world but our own. On the fiftieth anniversary of Churchill's death, Boris Johnson celebrates the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth...

Before September 11, 2001 we Americans did not think much about freedom or democracy in the Middle East. U.S. policy toward the region aimed to assure a reliable flow of oil, to encourage peace between the Arabs and Israel, and above all, during the...

In My Life as a Revolutionary, Maria Eugenia Vasquez Perdomo presents a gripping account of her experiences as a member of M-19, one of the most successful guerrilla movements in Colombia's tumultuous modern history. Vasquez's remarkable story opens with her happy childhood in a...

Named a Notable Translated Book of the Year by World Literature Today A poignant and unexpectedly inspirational account of women's suffering and resilience in Stalin's forced labor camps, diligently transcribed in the kitchens and living rooms of nine survivors. The pain inflicted by the...

"Renunciation" is the dramatic story of a man who was awarded and then renounced the Medal of Honor. This book will take you on a journey with a Catholic priest who first found the war in Vietnam to meet the "just war" criteria of...

David Cameron was Prime Minister of the UK for 6 years. Some say his legacy will be of a single, catastrophic event which he 'accidentally' walked the UK into, whilst few have asked the man himself. This book tells the true, concise story of...