Biography & Autobiography - Political

By the time of his death in 2009, the Grand Ayatollah Montazeri was lauded as the spiritual leader of the Green movement in Iran. Since the 1960s, when he supported Ayatollah Khomeini's opposition to the Shah, Montazeri's life reflected the crucial political shifts within...

Author: William Smith WhiteISBN-10: 1258214180ISBN-13: 9781258214180Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2011Pages: 314Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.66d

My Life: An Attempt At An Autobiography is a memoir written by Leon Trotsky, a prominent figure in the Russian Revolution and the early Soviet Union. The book covers Trotsky's life from his childhood in a wealthy Jewish family in Ukraine to his exile...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE RANDY SHILTS AWARD "I [once] said [to Frank] I was sorry I would never be able to vote for him as the first gay president of the United States. After reading this book, I am sorrier than ever."--Garry...

""Old Ephraim The Grizzly"" is a non-fiction book written by Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States. The book details Roosevelt's experiences hunting and tracking grizzly bears in the American West, particularly his pursuit of a legendary grizzly bear named Old Ephraim....

The Joy of the Lord is a book written by James Russell Miller in 1911. The book is a collection of essays and sermons that aim to inspire readers to find joy in their lives through their faith in God. Miller emphasizes the importance...

Forcing The Breeding Queen To Lay Eggs In Artificial Queen Cups (1906) is a book written by Eugene L. Pratt that explores the process of artificially inducing queen bees to lay eggs in queen cups. The book provides a detailed explanation of the methods...

""A New Interlude of Godly Queen Hester"" is a play written by Walter Wilson Greg and published in 1904. The play is a retelling of the biblical story of Queen Esther, who risked her life to save the Jewish people from persecution in ancient...

Louis Napoleon and the Second Empire is a historical book written by J.M. Thompson. The book provides a comprehensive and detailed account of the life of Louis Napoleon and the Second French Empire. It covers the period from the coup d'�����tat of 1851 to...

Scouting on Two Continents is a memoir written by Major Frederick Russell Burnham, a renowned American scout and adventurer. The book chronicles Burnham's experiences as a young boy growing up in the American West, his participation in the Apache Wars, and his travels across...

Before John F. Kennedy became a legendary young president he was the junior senator from Massachusetts. The Senate was where JFK's presidential ambitions were born and first realized. In the first book to deal exclusively with JFK's Senate years, author John T. Shaw looks...

The Shelf2Life Reconstruction to World Power (1865-1923) Collection is a compelling set of pre-1923 materials that explore the rapid social, economic and political changes experienced in the United States after the Civil War. From courageous battles fought by the Rough Riders to the effects...

This book presents a provocative account of James Madison's political thought by focusing on Madison's lifelong encounter with the enduring problem of constitutional imperfection. In particular, it emphasizes Madison's alliance with Thomas Jefferson, liberating it from those longstanding accounts of Madisonian constitutionalism that emphasize...

From Vietnam to the Southern Strategy, from the opening of China to the scandal of Watergate, Pat Buchanan--speechwriter and senior adviser to President Nixon--tells the untold story of Nixon's embattled White House, from its historic wins to it devastating defeats. In his inaugural address,...

Thomas PaineThe mind of Thomas Paine was gifted to the American Revolution at just the right time. Right when the fervor of the revolutionary spirit was beginning to subside, the pen of Thomas Paine came along and ignited the fires of American liberty once...

Winner of the J. Russell Major Prize, American Historical AssociationBest Book on the First Empire by a Foreigner, Napoleon Foundation "Englund has written a most distinguished book recounting Bonaparte's life with clarity and ease...This magnificent book tells us much that we did not know...

From Simon & Schuster, Sam Houston is John William's vivid, exciting biography of one of the giants of nineteenth-century America. Sam Houston was one of the most extraordinary figures in American history. During his life, he held an astonishing range of positions: governor of...

This book is a primer on mobilizing political power to achieve enlightened goals in a democracy. This is a book about how good politicians can compromise without abandoning moral principles. This is a book that will inspire future political leaders to hold on to...

Did the US mortgage implosion of 2007 which led to the worldwide recession have to happen? Gale Cincotta (Chicago, 1929-2001), and the National People's Action (NPA) she founded, battled for decades to get the laws and regulations which would have made it much less...

Smeared by cheap innuendo and false accusations alleging he is responsible for having allowed a bomb aboard Pan Am 103, Micheal T. Hurley, career law enforcement veteran, faces a dilemma as real as his lifetime savings: bet everything that truth would win out in...

No book about the Nigerian civil war has up to date provided as revealing an account of the prison conditions of wartime "Biafra." In this book, Engr. Sam Umweni, then Officer-in-Charge of Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation in Benin, chronicles his abduction and survival under detention...

WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, Jr. is more than a politically powerful Republican; he is a polysyllabic lecturer-debater, a popular syndicated columnist, the editor-in-chief of America's most famous conservative magazine, the host of TV's "Firing Line" program, and the author of numerous fiction and non-fiction books....

Author: Patricia LindermanISBN-10: 0595250777ISBN-13: 9780595250776Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/08/2002Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.16h x 6.20w x 0.73d

Author: Bernard LivingstonISBN-10: 059514487XISBN-13: 9780595144877Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2000Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.47d

Author: Steven K. SchneiderISBN-10: 0595137016ISBN-13: 9780595137015Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2001Pages: 124Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d

Author: Libby HughesISBN-10: 0595003885ISBN-13: 9780595003884Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2000Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33d

Since its publication in 1983, Theodor Schieder's study has been recognised as the most distinguished modern study of Prussia's most famous King and a leading figure of the eighteenth century. This abbreviated translation provides the first comprehensive scholarly treatment in English published since 1975....

Now in paperback, the first full account of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's role in the struggle against Burma's military junta. Included is a new afterword by the author, which covers events from the time of the original publication in 1998...

"From my fear of coming out to coming on strong in the struggle for human rights, this is my American journey, the story of an outsider on the inside, a gay man proudly committed to a life of standing up for freedom. "President Clinton...

This authoritative Bantam Classic edition presents readers with a wide-ranging selection of Benjamin Franklin's most important writings, illuminating the complex and appealing character of this quintessential American who rose to fame as a publisher, inventor, educator, bon vivant, and statesman. Here are selections from...

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...

A widely acclaimed biography from the bestselling author of The Romanovs: "One of the great love stories of history" (The Economist) between Catherine the Great and the wildly flamboyant and talented Prince Potemkin. - "Captures the genius of two extraordinary Enlightenment figures--and of the...

Mao Zedong's political career spanned more than half a century. The ideas he championed transformed one of the largest nations on earth and inspired revolutionary movements across the world. Even today Mao lives on in China, where he is regarded by many as a...

Mao Zedong's political career spanned more than half a century. The ideas he championed transformed one of the largest nations on earth and inspired revolutionary movements across the world. Even today Mao lives on in China, where he is regarded by many as a...

The Earl of Essex was the last great favorite of Elizabeth I and the leading cultural patron of the final years of her reign. Dazzled by the "romantic" relationship with the queen, modern writers have branded Essex a dandy, a military incompetent, and a...

This is the first biography in ninety years of Reginald Pole (1500SH1558), one of the most important international figures of the sixteenth century. Pole's career is followed as prot g and then harshest critic of Henry VIII, as cardinal and papal diplomat, legate of...

This is the as-told-to political autobiography of Ph ntso Wangye (Ph nwang), one of the most important Tibetan revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. Ph nwang began his activism in school, where he founded a secret Tibetan Communist Party. He was expelled in 1940,...

Here is the first scholarly study of the life and thought of Beno t Malon (1841-1893), the most persuasive and visible spokesman for reformist socialism during the early years of the French Third Republic.Active in the generation of the French Left that came of...

A deeply reported biography of the scandal-plagued Israeli Prime Minister, showing that we cannot understand Israel -- its history, present, and future -- without first understanding the life and worldview of the man who leads it Benjamin Netanyahu is embroiled in numerous scandals, all...

World War II commando, Cold War spy, and CIA director under presidents Nixon and Ford, William Egan Colby played a critical role in some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century. A quintessential member of the greatest generation, Colby embodied the moral...

In this eagerly anticipated interpretation of the life and work of quintessential "public intellectual" Jane Addams (1860-1935), Jean Bethke Elshtain explores Addams's legacy thematically and chronologically, recounting her embrace of "social feminism," her challenge to the usual cleavage between "conservative" and "liberal," and the...

If any two people can be called indispensable in launching the conservative movement in American politics, they are William F. Buckley Jr. and Barry Goldwater. Buckley's National Review was at the center of conservative political analysis from the mid-fifties onward. But the policy intellectuals...

"Sasson's candid, straightforward account...gives readers a glimpse of the cruelty and hardship endured by generations of Iraqis."--Publishers Weekly A member of one of the most distinguished and honored families in Iraq, Mayada grew up surrounded by wealth and royalty. But when Saddam Hussein's regime...

Often considered Congress's "Odd Couple," these warm and witty stories from Congresswomen Linda and Loretta S疣chez are perfect for all young women looking to create a brighter future for themselves--with a foreword from Nancy Pelosi! By sharing moments from their childhood in Southern California,...

Born a slave in Maryland circa 1817, Frederick Douglass went on to become the most influential and distinguished African American of the nineteenth century. As an abolitionist, newspaper publisher, orator and statesman, Douglass dedicated his life to the triumph of freedom over oppression for...

Bringing together Islamic studies, a postcolonial literary perspective, and a focus on the interaction between aesthetics and politics, this book analyses Iqbal's Islamism through his poetry. It argues that his notion of an Islamist selfhood was expressed in his verse through the interplay between...

Emperor Hirohito reigned for more than sixty years, yet we know little about him or the part he really played in the turbulent history of Showa Japan.Stephen Large draws on a wide range of Japanese and Western sources in his study of Emperor Hirohito's...

Mary S. Lovell brilliantly recounts the triumphant political and military campaigns, domestic tragedies, happy marriages, and disastrous unions throughout generations of Churchills.The first Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722) was a soldier of such genius that a lavish palace, Blenheim, was built to honor his triumphs....

Author: Fawn M. BrodieISBN-10: 0393335038ISBN-13: 9780393335033Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1981Pages: 576Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.75lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.17d

Grigorenko was born in the Ukraine in 1907. As a youth he witnessed the atrocities of the Reds and the Whites as the Russian revolution flamed into civil war--events recorded here with stunning authenticity. Drawn to the ideals of communism, he became a party...