Biography & Autobiography - Political

Tony Abbott came to the prime ministership lauded as the most effective leader of the opposition since Whitlam. Why then did he fail to succeed in the job to which he had aspired for decades Frontbenchers leaked about cabinet processes to the media while...

Leopold Kerney was one of the most influential diplomats of twentieth-century Irish history. This book presents the first comprehensive biography of Kerney's career in its entirety from his recruitment to the diplomatic service to his time in France, Spain, Argentina, and Chile. Barry Whelan's...

NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT- OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price while supplies lastBlack Americans in Congress, 1870-2007, is a comprehensive history of the more than 120 African Americans who have served in the United States Congress. Written for a...

Author: Ernesto Diaz RodriguezISBN-13: 9798891946347Publisher: Primix PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/05/2026Pages: 380Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.85d

Author: Grover ClevelandISBN-10: 1026138949ISBN-13: 9781026138946Publisher: XpresspressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/14/2026Pages: 254Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.53d

Author: Lawrence Knorr,Joe Farrell,Joe FarleyISBN-13: 9798888194737Publisher: Sunbury Press, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2018Pages: 264Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Author: Winston ChurchillISBN-10: 9355224834ISBN-13: 9789355224835Publisher: Classy PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/28/2026Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d

Author: Margherita G. SarfattiISBN-10: 1025349792ISBN-13: 9781025349794Publisher: Tradd Street PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2026Pages: 370Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.77d

"Stresemann" is a compelling contemporary biography of Gustav Stresemann, one of the most influential political figures of the Weimar Republic. Written by the noted journalist and lawyer Rudolf Olden, this work offers a deep exploration of the man who served as both Chancellor and...

"Letters From a Senator's Wife" is an engaging firsthand account of life in the inner circles of Washington, D.C. society and politics during the early 1920s. Written by the prolific author Frances Parkinson Keyes, these letters provide a vivid chronicle of her experiences as...

In Ed's account of 1965-1966, we have the advantage of his double vantage point, an artist's sensibilities: Ed, in that year of his letters home to his family, and Ed, reflecting and refracted as he approaches sixty years later as a Basilian and fifty...

Geoff Paddock's book takes a contemporary look at female public servants who occupied public office or were influential in public life in Indiana. Paddock profiles such distinguished Democratic and Republican leaders as Marvella Bayh, Virginia Blankenbaker, Susan Brooks, Pamela Carter, Julia Carson, Virginia McCarty,...

Geoff Paddock's book takes a contemporary look at female public servants who occupied public office or were influential in public life in Indiana. Paddock profiles such distinguished Democratic and Republican leaders as Marvella Bayh, Virginia Blankenbaker, Susan Brooks, Pamela Carter, Julia Carson, Virginia McCarty,...

Hot Seat -- Hot City: The Austin Mayor's StoryAuthor: Steve AdlerISBN-13: 9798886455458Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/25/2026Pages: 288Format: Hardcover

"Can we survive this?" worried friends ask Lamar Alexander.A US senator who started in JFK's Justice Department, worked in the Nixon White House, turned down serving as GOP Watergate counsel and as Ford's campaign manager, walked for six months across Tennessee to become governor,...

Part memoir, part political argument, There We Are Human Again declares that a much richer way of living is possible, and within our grasp today, together - to be truly human, at last. The world is sliding towards one kind of anarchy: incessant conflict,...

Author: Lindy LiISBN-10: 0063499053ISBN-13: 9780063499058Publisher: HarperLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2026Pages: 256Format: Hardcover

Andrew AldredISBN: 978-1-78382-7565Published: 2025Pages: 54Key Themes: Mental Health, Depression, Bipolar, Manic DepressionDescriptionAndrew Aldred was born in Newcastle in 1966. His family moved to Bolton early in his life because of his father's job. His mother worked as a primary school teacher for most of...

Delve into the mind of one of America's Founding Fathers with "Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1." This collection offers a unique window into the personal and political life of Thomas Jefferson through his own writings. Edited by...

149 out of 193 UN member states have now recognised the state of Palestine, but three permanent members of the UN Security Council have yet to do so. At least one has actually hampered the Security Council's efforts to accept the recommendations of the...

Herzen's Letters offers readers a biographical narrative based on translated and annotated correspondence written by and to Alexander Herzen (1812-1870), one of the most consequential figures in the run-up to the Russian Revolution and an inspiration to dissidents fighting authoritarianism and imperialism ever since....

Delve into the formative years of American governance with Volume 3 of "The Writings of James Monroe." This meticulously curated collection presents, for the first time in print, a comprehensive selection of James Monroe's public and private papers and correspondence. Gain invaluable insights into...

Explore the life and career of James Knox Polk in this comprehensive biography, "The Life and Public Services of the Hon. James Knox Polk, With a Compendium of his Speeches." Published in 1844, this volume offers a detailed account of Polk's early life, his...

"Uno nunca sabe en quéeacute; momento va a encontrar su verdaderavocacióoacute;n. Pero si hay algo que aprendíiacute; es a no aceptar lo dado y estar siempreabierto. Es como el amor, se trata de una vibración que sólo se siente en elcorazón. No hay que...

Macquarie charts the eventful rule of Lachlan Macquarie, governor of New South Wales from 1810 to late 1821. These were crucial years during which the fate of the colony was in the balance after years of struggle, famine, and strife culminating in a military...

Sydney University is Australia's pre-eminent finishing school for politicians, and its Students' Representative Council is the nursery where generations of future leaders have cut their first dodgy preference deals and performed their first backstabbings. Comrades is the story of one student President, Eddie O'Hara,...

Nathaniel Clements (1705-77), treasury official, politician, Dublin property developer, amateur architect, failed banker and leader of fashion, was the fifth son of a Cromwellian gentry family. He amassed a considerable fortune from office, and over the years spent some ��� 70,000 on the purchase...

May 27, 2015 brings the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir Henry Parkes. After he died, the London Times described him as a colonial colossus. Henry Parkes received little schooling and worked on a rope-walk, breaking stones, as an ivory and bone turner,...

What started as a small New York City youth group quickly became one of the most prominent grassroots activist/citizen journalist organizations, with over 260 chapters worldwide. We Are CHANGE emerged from the ashes of a post-9/11 New York and would eventually change the world...

A gripping memoir of online deception, Sherlock Being Catfished chronicles Joan Mellen's harrowing experience as she falls prey to a romance scam.This true story explores the vulnerability of the human heart in the digital age. Mellen, a seasoned JFK assassination researcher, finds herself entangled...

During a period when African-American education was at the epicenter of the civil rights movement, Thompson's Journal documented the rapid growth of educational discrimination in the South despite significant increases in public school funding, providing irrefutable evidence that racially segregated public education was inherently...

The first account of the remarkable eighteen-month journey of Lorena Hickok, intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, throughout the country during the worst of the Great Depression, bearing witness to the unprecedented ravaged. During the harshest year of the Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, a top...

""A Genealogy Of The Greenleaf Family"" is a book published in 1854 by Jonathan Greenleaf. As the title suggests, the book is a comprehensive genealogical study of the Greenleaf family, tracing its roots back to the early 17th century. The book contains detailed information...

My Ride To The Barbecue: Or Revolutionary Reminiscences Of The Old Dominion (1860) is a historical book written by an ex-member of Congress. The book is a collection of stories and personal experiences of the author during the Revolutionary War in Virginia. The author...

The Old Plantation And What I Gathered There In An Autumn Month is a book written by James Hungerford and published in 1859. The book is a memoir of the author's experiences while staying at an old plantation in the southern United States during...

""A Register of the Scholars Admitted into Merchant Taylors' School V1: From A. D. 1562 to 1874 (1882)"" is a historical record compiled by Charles J. Robinson. The book documents the names and admission dates of all the scholars who attended the prestigious Merchant...

A Genealogy Of The Glassell Family Of Scotland And Virginia (1891) is a comprehensive historical account of the Glassell family, tracing their lineage from Scotland to Virginia. The book is written by Horace Edwin Hayden and is a valuable resource for those interested in...

Rose Perica Mofford was the the first woman governor of Arizona. Born in Globe, Arizona, and raised in Six Shooter Canyon, Governor Mofford acted as an interim governor when impeachment proceedings began against Governor Evan Mecham on February 7, 1988. In April 1988, she...

Author: PanafISBN-10: 0901787175ISBN-13: 9780901787170Publisher: PanafLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2015Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.42d

Robert A. Taft, prominent political leader and vocal critic of the expanding powers of the federal government and of the enlargement of America's international commitments, played a significant role in the development of Republican party politics. This second volume of The Papers of Robert...

"Atwan's 1996 interview with bin Laden in his Afghanistan redoubt was one of the first and remains one of the best. Atwan 'got it' from the moment bin Laden appeared on the scene. . . . What many [Muslims] hate is not the American...

Reprinted from its 1918 edition, The Tale of a Plain Man by Alexis Stone details the memories of Pennsylvania's turn-of-the-century state governor. During the Civil War, the adolescent Stone ran off to enlist in the volunteer army beginning a military career, which he then...

Author: Dim Odimegwu OjukwuISBN-10: 1365745899ISBN-13: 9781365745898Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/07/2022Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.10d

Beneath the shoal the coral buildscathedrals slow and bright;each fragile branch in patient tiersconstructs its silent height. A reef once broken does not healin seasons short or mild;it mends in decades, sometimes more, like memory defiled. The Ballad of Scarborough Shoal is a stirring...

When a line in the sea became a line in history... On October 12, 2025, in the contested waters off Sandy Cay, three modest Philippine vessels faced down a militia fleet, shifting the balance of the West Philippine Sea. In this gripping political memoir,...

In this memoir, the former CIA director and veteran intelligence agent recalls the people and events that shaped his career, while detailing the inner workings of the CIA."This is a big and important book. It deserves to be read whole, and carefully." --Foreign AffairsWilliam...

"James Ramsay MacDonald: Labour's Man of Destiny" is a comprehensive biographical study of the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, written at the height of his political influence. H. Hessell Tiltman provides a detailed examination of MacDonald's rise from humble beginnings in...

"Roosevelt, His Mind in Action" is a penetrating study of the character, intellect, and political career of Theodore Roosevelt. Authored by Lewis Einstein, a diplomat and contemporary of the former president, this work delves into the psychological underpinnings of Roosevelt's leadership style. Rather than...

"Intimate Letters of Carl Schurz, 1841-1869" offers a profound glimpse into the private life and public convictions of one of the most significant figures in 19th-century transatlantic history. This collection of personal correspondence captures the formative years and rapid rise of Carl Schurz, beginning...

In "Chapters of Autobiography", Arthur James Balfour, the Earl of Balfour, provides a compelling and intimate look into the formative years of one of Britain's most influential statesmen. This memoir explores the early life, education, and intellectual development of a man who would eventually...