Biography & Autobiography - Political

An intimate portrait of an iconic American from the men closest to him As a politician, John F. Kennedy crafted an image that inspired and thrilled millions - and left an outsize legacy after his tragic murder. Only a select inner circle was privy...

Following a bitter Civil War, America ended the abhorrent practice of slavery on Dec. 6, 1865, the day the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. Now, the African-American community, along with other minority groups, is being lead back to enslavement through government handouts...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1908 Edition.Author: John MorleyISBN-10: 1498110061ISBN-13: 9781498110068Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 534Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.56lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.08d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.Author: AnonymousISBN-10: 1497876931ISBN-13: 9781497876934Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/29/2014Pages: 190Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his personal experiences in working to rise from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new...

Where in the world could a fourteen year old child apply for a job which they start at the age of fifteen with no way of leaving until they are twenty seven years old? Where in the world? Great Britain. Stephen Mann writes of...

Welcoming its first executive in 1842, the Mississippi Governor's Mansion is the second-oldest continuously occupied governor's residence in the United States. The Mansion is both a public building open for tours and the private residence of the governor and his family. In this unique...

For decades after the Second World War, Senator James O. Eastland (1904-1986) was one of the more intransigent leaders of the Deep South's resistance to what he called "the Second Reconstruction." And yet he developed, late in his life, a very real friendship with...

*Includes pictures of Malcolm X and important people, places, and events in his life. *Explains the origins of the name Malcolm X. *Includes some of Malcolm X's most famous quotes, and a detailed description of his "The Ballot or The Bullet" speech. "Our objective...

A breakthrough Elizabeth Warren biography by best-selling author Antonia Felix.Elizabeth Warren's rise as one of America's most powerful women is a stirring lesson in persistence. From her fierce support of the middle class to her unapologetic response to political bullies, Warren is known as...

When Peter Marmureanu started learning tennis in communist-held Romania, he was ten years old, playing barefoot on clay courts, swinging a wooden paddle that served as a racket. Eight years later, as a member of Romania's Davis Cup team, Marmureanu was traveling side by...

Vasily Zarubin ranked as an important Soviet intelligence officer, but he has received little recognition in the history of intelligence in the United States. In Rezident, author Robert K. Baker, who worked with foreign counterintelligence matters for the FBI during a thirty-three-year career, presents...

During the six months before December of 1776, Commanding General, George Washington had retreated from nine consecutive battles with the British in New Jersey and had lost ninety percent of his army. Brigadier General, Arthur St. Clair answered the call with fresh troops, took...

During the six months before December of 1776, Commanding General, George Washington had retreated from nine consecutive battles with the British in New Jersey and had lost ninety percent of his army. Brigadier General, Arthur St. Clair answered the call with fresh troops, took...

Ernest Charles Drury (1878-1968) became the eighth premier of Ontario after the United Farmers of Ontario won the 1919 provincial election. Charles M. Johnston follows the career of Drury through agrarian activism and partisan politics, and explores the personal and ideological forces that directed...

Louis St. Laurent was appointed to the Cabinet in 1941 and seven years later succeeded Mackenzie King as Leader of the Liberal party and as Prime Minister. J.W. Pickersgill was then head of the Prime Minister's Office. 'In a sense, ' he writes, 'King...

Taras Shevchenko is undoubtedly Ukraine's greatest literary genius and national hero. His extraordinary life-story is recounted in this classic work by Pavlo Zaitsev. Born in 1814, the son of a poor serf, Shevchenko succeeded in winning his freedom and became an art student in...

Originally published in 2004, Red Diaper Baby is James Laxer's compelling and extraordinary memoir of growing up in a communist family during the height of the Cold War. When Jim was born in a Montreal hospital, his father was living in hiding under an...

When Soha Al-Jurf goes in search of her father's Palestinian village, she believes she is embarking on a journey that will help her reconcile the conflicted parts of her identity as a Palestinian-American Muslim woman. Instead, what she had anticipated would be the end...

A colorful and controversial statesman who served in the United States Senate for a half-century, Strom Thurmond did not retire from office until after he was 100 years old. Hailing from the small town of Edgefield, South Carolina, Thurmond rapidly ascended the political ladder--Superintendent...

"Those among us who survived," says Melanija, "did so because we were unbelievably full of the determination and will to live, and faith in our ultimate liberation, as well as because all the disasters arose unexpectedly." From her own and some of her fellow...

The incredible, inside story of the man and the organization changing the way we change the world.George Soros is well known as the legendary speculator who made a fortune betting against the British pound in 1992, but he is also a philanthropist who has...

In Exit Emperor Kim Jong-il, authors John H. Cha and K. J. Sohn present a compelling portrait of two men caught up in a struggle for the survival of North Korean society. Th e product of an eight-year study of individuals who observed and...

Author: John Watson MiltonISBN-10: 1456880713ISBN-13: 9781456880712Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/09/2012Pages: 690Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.52d

Author: Themba NzimandeISBN-10: 1456880683ISBN-13: 9781456880682Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/08/2011Pages: 244Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

I wrote this book because, sadly, I see the United States turning more and more towards communism. As misinformed Americans embrace eagerly the total socialist society concept, the nanny state, I hear the "echo" of my hard communist life in Romania and the cries...

Like See No Evil and At the Center of the Storm, this is a vivid and gripping account of the Central Intelligence Agency, a life of secrets, and a war in the shadows. Called the "Bob Gates of his generation" by Politico, Michael Morell...

Franklin was exceptional as a scientist, statesman, business man and author.Author: Tom Thomas, John T. Jr. MorseISBN-10: 1453825312ISBN-13: 9781453825310Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2010Pages: 366Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.76d

The first fully realized portrait of Abraham Lincoln's ambitious and controversial early political career written by the "gifted young historian" (Richard Norton Smith) and author of Founding Rivals. Chris DeRose, the "gifted young historian" (Richard Norton Smith) who penned one of The Washington Post's...

In this "story of hope--an affirmation of the promise, the potential, and the reality of the American Dream," (Nancy Pelosi), the first Muslim to be elected to Congress speaks out about what divides Americans--and what can bring us together. As a Black, Latino, and...

Levi Johnston--best known as Bristol Palin's baby daddy and Sarah Palin's favorite whipping boy--sets out to clear his name and, with any luck, end his run as Alaska's most hated man. Promising hockey player and Governor Sarah Palin's almost son-in-law, Levi Johnston was eighteen...

From the cold of Valley Forge in the American Revolution, to the burning temperatures of the deserts of the Middle East, the Army of the United States of America has defended freedom, pushed back tyranny, and helped make the world a safer place. Now,...

As the creative force behind the award-winning satire news program "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart has become known as "the most trusted man in America." The road to success was not always smooth. Learn how a young man overcame anti-Semitic bullying at an early...

A 16 year old girl is taken away from her mother's dying bed at the hospital by four armed Iranian government agents. She is arrested and held captive in Iran's most feared prison, Evin. This begins her agonizing journey through life. As a political...

Robert Cohen is a Motivational Speaker and writer of a book of poetry inspired by life experiences. Cohen is a native of Savannah Georgia and grew up in the Chatham County School system. He received a undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Sociology with a...

Author: Harold W. GeiselISBN-10: 1450001319ISBN-13: 9781450001311Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/28/2009Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d

This is the fascinating autobiography of Ernst Toller. Ernst Toller (1893 - 1939) was a German left-wing playwright, best known for his expressionist plays. He also famously served for six days in 1919 as the President of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, later being...

The story of Chuck Panici, four times mayor of Chicago Heights, Illinois. An account of his rise to power and prominence, his denunciation by criminal elements within his own administration, his trial on trumped-up corruption charges and of the wrongs committed by the Justice...

This wonderful collection of writings by Benjamin Franklin, and as the humorous and insightful Richard Saunders, includes essays on morals, economics, happiness, wealth, politics and more as well as letters to and from friends and family. It is the second of two volumes following...

It would be difficult, and perhaps impossible, to gather from the history and labours of any individual mind, a summary of practical wisdom as rich in varied instruction as the memoirs and writings presented in these volumes will be found to afford. If, on...

This book looks at the life and work of Robert Blatchford, a pioneer of the British labour movement in the late nineteenth century. A highly talented journalist, he was an originator of the didactic political column and inspired a grassroots socialist movement. In 'Merrie...

Myrna is a scrawny brown skinned girl with curly hair, living carefree in South Africa when she, at the age of 8, discovers that she is Coloured. Her family has relocated from a farm in Natal to the Transvaal province when she first experiences...

The tumultuous decade of the 1960s began with promise and hope, when John F. Kennedy became the youngest elected President of the United States. Kennedy promised youthful, energetic leadership, as the country headed into the latter half of the 20th century, and christened his...

With Soviet troops advancing in April 1945, Germany's population was in a panic. A rising torrent of refugees poured westward through the German provinces, fleeing before the Soviet steamroller. The Russians felt the time had come to seize and smash Berlin, the last lair...

William Gilpin (1815-1894) has been called "America's first geopolitician." Regarded today as both scientist and quack, Gilpin was in his own time a recognized authority whose maps were accepted by Congress as the most accurate available, and his description of trails and land in...

The senator from Missouri shares her "straightforward, plainspoken, and at once deeply personal and thoroughly political" (Publishers Weekly) story of embracing her ambition, surviving sexism, making a family, losing a husband, outsmarting her enemies--and finding joy along the way. Claire McCaskill grew up in...

"A fresh and fast-paced study of one of the most important crimes of the twentieth century" (The Washington Post), The Brother now discloses new information revealed since the original publication in 2003--including an admission by his sons that Julius Rosenberg was indeed a Soviet...

"Gripping...an outstanding portrait" (The Wall Street Journal) of one of the most influential men of the greatest generation, James B. Conant--a savvy architect of the nuclear age and the Cold War--told by his granddaughter, New York Times bestselling author Jennet Conant. James Bryant Conant...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his longtime cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, share the story of Cheney's thirty-five-year battle with heart disease--providing insight into the incredible medical breakthroughs that have changed cardiac care over the last four decades. For as long as he has...

A farm boy from the mountains of North Carolina, Rufus Edmisten could not have been prepared for the halls of power in Washington, D.C., during the Vietnam War era, as young men burned their draft cards and pro-cannabis factions held "smoke-ins" in the capital....