Biography & Autobiography - Political

Jose Marti contributed greatly to Cuba's struggle for independence from Spain with words as well as revolutionary action. Although he died before the formation of an independent republic, he has since been hailed as a heroic martyr inspiring Cuban republican traditions.Author: Mauricio FontISBN-10: 0739112252ISBN-13:...

The story of the Irish state can be read in many ways. Two views, however, have dominated. One looks upon the War of Independence as the near fulfilment of the 1916 sacrificial act of national redemption, with the ultimate unification of the island remaining...

Author: Gertrude SamuelsISBN-10: 0595007422ISBN-13: 9780595007424Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2000Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d

From Ireland, England, France, Austria, Greece, Turkey and Italy to America and the West Indies, overflowing with historic events, from the French Revolution to the Great Irish Famine, with a cast of the famous and infamous, Howe Peter Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo, lived...

"Fascinante y valiente. Este libro de memorias debe ser lectura obligatoria para todos". --Michelle Alexander, autora de The New Jim Crow, bestseller de The New York Times."Lloré leyendo este libro, comprendí plenamente lo que mis padres tuvieron que aguantar". --Amy Tan, autora de Club...

Musings Series 1 Musings Series 2George Yeo: Musings (In 3 Volumes) available as a set hereOver sessions which lasted two to three hours each time, every week for half a year, George Yeo met and mused over a wide range of topics with writer...

Beyond black and white, native and alien, lies a vast and fertile field of human experience. It is here that Eric Liu, former speechwriter for President Clinton and noted political commentator, invites us to explore. In these compellingly candid essays, Liu reflects on his...

Wylie Gibbs relates truly fascinating vignettes from his fifty years as a surgeon in Australia, Britain, Saudi Arabia and Fiji.One incident relates to his treatment of the late Prime Minister Harold Holt, forty-eight hours before his disappearance. His discussion of this episode, illuminated by...

These memoirs of Leonard Nikani give a graphic portrayal of a black man growing up in racist South Africa. Leonard began to question the racist system while still at school. As a student at Fort Hare University he became involved in the political struggle,...

New York Times Bestseller New York Times bestselling author of Accidental Presidents explores what happens after the most powerful job in the world: President of the United States. Former presidents have an unusual place in American life. King George III believed that George Washington's...

Born in Alexandria in 1911, Michel Pablo became a leading figure in the Fourth International from its foundation in 1938. Throughout the 20th century, he was active in revolutions around the globe. His political work ranged from agitation among German troops in World War...

Author: Loung UngISBN-10: 8200091422ISBN-13: 9798200091423Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2011Format: CDWeight: 0.44lbs

As recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, president of the African National Congress, and head of the antiapartheid movement, Nelson Mandela has been one of the world s great moral and political leaders. The story of his life from the early development of his...

Craig's study of McAdoo and Baker illuminates the aspirations and struggles of two prominent southern Democrats.In this dual biography, Douglas B. Craig examines the careers of two prominent American public figures, Newton Diehl Baker and William Gibbs McAdoo, whose lives spanned the era between...

Goli Otok: The Island of Death, first released in English in 1984, are the series of letters of the Bulgarian poet laureate Venko Markovski (1915-1988) written after his release from the island prison of Goli Otok in the Adriatic Sea. Markovski was sentenced to...

Political picture of the British Prime MinisterWith Mr. Johnson's resignation, the government of Britain was no longer hamstrung by an extraordinary political crisis surrounding his future. He spoke directly to the electorate and expressed his grief at leaving office after almost three years.Regarding his...

Hailed as one of Russian-American writer Ayn Rand's greatest works, Anthem, a dystopian fiction novella, was a clear predecessor to her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.Author: Ayn RandISBN-10: 1722504269ISBN-13: 9781722504267Publisher: G&D MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/08/2023Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.23dAccelerated...

A Professor's Perspective: Essays on the 45, not 46, Presidents of the United StatesDr. Herbert Barry, III, Professor of Psychology and author of over forty academic articles and three books, has always had a keen interest in people and politics, and in particular the...

They called him "Luigi'. In fact, they've called him lots of things. Love him or loathe him, there's no denying Winston Raymond Peters is a force of nature. He's the former school teacher brought to tears by a class of 11 year olds. He's...

Prime minister of Sweden and leader of the Social Democratic party from 1946-1969, Tage Erlander enjoyed a career that was remarkable both for its major accomplishments and longevity. Under his leadership, Sweden became an exemplary welfare state following World War II. Universal pensions, child...

William S. Belko's Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America provides the first comprehensive biography of a pivotal yet nearly forgotten statesman who made numerous key contributions to a transformative period of early American history. Barbour, a Virginia lawyer, participated in America's transition from a...

First year law students study the landmark Supreme Court case McCulloch vs. Maryland, in which James W. McCulloh played a significant role. Who was this man and what made him challenge the State of Maryland? This book tells the story of lives that helped...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn delineates his idyllic time in rural Vermont, where he had the freedom to work, spend time with his family, and wage a war of ideas against the Soviet Union and other detractors from afar. At his quiet retreat . . . the...

The renowned biographer and New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women returns with this first volume in a multigenerational history that will forever change the way America views its most famous family ... Author: Laurence LeamerISBN-10: 0060502886ISBN-13: 9780060502881Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage:...

In James G. Blaine: Architect of Empire, author Edward P. Crapol assesses Blaine's role as an architect of empire and revisits the ambitious imperialistic goals of this two-time secretary of state. Crapol examines Blaine's pivotal role in shaping American foreign relations and looks at...

A masterpiece. --The Washington Post It was impossible. All of China was a prison in those days.Mao Zedong's labor reform camps, known as the laogai, were notoriously brutal. Modeled on the Soviet Gulag, they subjected their inmates to backbreaking labor, malnutrition, and vindictive wardens....

En estas memorias, el analista político y representante de estado más joven de Carolina del Sur ahonda sobre las vidas del olvidado sur negro. Soy del llamado País Bajo de Carolina del Sur, donde se entrelazan la belleza, la historia y la desgracia. Basta...

2016 Speaker's Book Award -- ShortlistedA look back over Bartleman's seventy years, from his childhood of poverty to becoming the Queen's representative in Ontario. James Bartleman, Ontario's first Native lieutenant governor, looks back over seventy years to his childhood and youth to describe how...

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Including Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, eleven Mormons have sought the highest office in the United States. Newell G. Bringhurst and Craig L. Foster bring their stories to life as the attempt to answer the question, "Is America Ready for a Mormon President?"Author: Craig...

Justin McCarthy (1830-1912) is the forgotten leader of the Irish Home Rule Movement. Overshadowed by Parnell before him and the 1916 leaders shortly after his death, McCarthy's considerable contribution to the national cause has been largely overlooked. Without his conciliatory chairmanship (1890-6), the Irish...

Charles Stewart Parnell has proved a compelling figure in his own time and to ours. A Protestant landlord who possessed few of the gifts that inspire mass adoration, he was the unlikely object of popular veneration. His long liaison with a married woman, Katharine...

Eric LaMont Gregory provides an eye-opening account of American foreign policy and how the decisions made today will influence the forces that propel America into the future. His international career began in the Middle East in the 1960s. Over the next 40-plus years, he...

The Politics of Passion is the first comprehensive collection of the writing and art of Dr Norman Bethune. A Canadian medical pioneer and a communist, Bethune gained fame during the 1930s while serving in the Spanish Civil War and participating in China's struggle against...

2016 Ontario Historical Society Donald Grant Creighton Award -- WinnerA National Post Bestseller, The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016, 2016 Speaker's Book Award -- Shortlisted The first authorized biography of Bill Davis, the enigmatic Ontario premier who carried on a Tory dynasty, but...

This account of President Masaryk's life was taken from his own lips and set down in his own words by Karel Capek. The chapters were not told consecutively as they are given here; they have been built up from material gathered by Capek during...

From New York Times bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrelli comes The Kennedy Heirs, his most revealing Kennedy book yet.A unique burden was inherited by the children of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his celebrated siblings, Senators Robert and Ted Kennedy. Raised in a world...

If greatness is measured by achievement, Orrin Hatch was the greatest U.S. senator of modern times--discover the life and career of the senator through archival material, original research, and exclusive interviews. This is the dramatic story of a conservative champion who shaped modern America--by...

Widely known as the "poor man's lawyer" in antebellum Boston, John Albion Andrew (1818-1867) was involved in nearly every cause and case that advanced social and racial justice in Boston in the years preceding the Civil War. Inspired by the legacies of John Quincy...

John Adams (1735-1826) was a prominent American statesman, lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who played a crucial role in shaping the United States during its early years. Serving as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801, Adams dedicated his life...

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - From the author of Catching the Wind comes the second volume of the definitive biography of Ted Kennedy and a history of modern American liberalism. "Magisterial . . . an intricate, astute study of political power...

Will Thorne's autobiography is a riveting account of his life as a social activist and labour leader in Britain. He recounts his early struggles as a factory worker, his involvement in the formation of the trade union movement, and his political career as a...

A remarkable memoir of an American's intimate engagement with the Congo, one throwing new light upon America's political challenges today. "I was fascinated both by his life-altering experience in the Congo and by his first-hand picture of what happens behind closed doors on Capitol...

What more could there be to know about FDR, given how exhaustively his life has been written about? As it happens, there is more and that focuses on Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the queen of her Washington social circle, later FDR's friend and love-and Eleanor's...

Few people today remember John Swainson. As a teenage soldier he lost both legs in a WWII landmine explosion. Back in the United States, following a meteoric political rise in the Michigan State Senate, Swainson was elected as Michigan's youngest governor since Stevens T....

Aaron Burr--Revolutionary War hero, third vice president of the United States and a controversial figure of the early republic--was tried and acquitted of treason charges in 1807, and thereafter departed for self-imposed exile in Europe, his political career in ruins. Adrift in Paris for...

The compelling true story of a man of conscience at the heart of the Third Reich. In the years when most Germans were abetting a policy of conquest and genocide, Helmuth James von Moltke, an aristocratic and devoutly Christian young lawyer drafted into the...

Introduction by James Gilreath, Library of Congress. As vice president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson presided over the Senate. To improve its procedures, he wrote A Manual of Parliamentary Practice. It was published in 1800 and is still considered part of the Senate...

Robespierre was one of the most powerful and the most feared leaders of the French Revolution. John Hardman describes the career of this ruthless political manipulator, and in the process explores the dynamics of the French revolutionary movement and the ferocious and self-destructive rivalries...