Biography & Autobiography - Political

William Brewster was an important official who helped organize passage aboard the Mayflower, an English ship which took a group of migrating families to Massachusetts.This biography begins long before the Mayflower's famous voyage of 1620. We are treated to a deep examination of politics...

"... imaginatively written and meticulously researched biography." --Elizabeth Sherman, The Boston Sunday Globe Her rallying cry was famous: "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." A century ago, Mother Jones was a celebrated organizer and agitator, the very soul of...

Daniel Freeman's career as a public servant in government and his experiences as an educator are the foundation of this fascinating book. "The House Was My Home" is an intriguing and frequently humorous look behind the velvet curtain of the U.S. House of Representatives...

..". then] it seemed to me that Jawaharlal should be the new President of Congress in 1946Author: Rajnikant PuranikISBN-10: 1724121030ISBN-13: 9781724121035Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/28/2018Pages: 286Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.64d

Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 - January 6, 1919; was the 26th President of the United States. He is well remembered for his energetic persona, range of interests and achievements, leadership of the Progressive Movement, model of masculinity, and his "cowboy" image. He was...

"A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable" (National Review) biography of Grover Cleveland--the honest, principled, and plain-spoken president whose country has largely overlooked him. "Entertaining and astute" (Booklist), A Man of Iron explores the remarkable life and extraordinary career of Grover Cleveland--one of America's most unusual...

This is the story of America and the journey of an American of African descent impacted by racial segregation laws gradually changed during his adolescent and adult years that provided opportunities to excel in his chosen profession. The author also provides a commentary on...

The New York Times bestseller Franklin Foer tells the definitive insider story of the first two years of the Biden presidency, with exclusive access to Biden's longtime team of advisers, and presents a gripping portrait of a president during this momentous time in our...

The life of Nathuram Godse, the man who shot Gandhi Dhirendra Jha's deeply researched history places Nathuram Godse's life as the juncture of the dangerous fault lines in contemporary India: the quest for independence and the rise of Hindu nationalism. On a wintry Delhi...

A historical account of World War I literature. Hell on Earth is the second book written by Avigdor Hameiri (born Feuerstein; 1890-1970) about his experiences as a Russian prisoner of war during the second half of World War I. Translator Peter C. Appelbaum first...

NOBODY HATES TRUMP MORE THAN TRUMP: AN INTERVENTION is perhaps the only genuinely original thing you have read yet about Donald Trump. It can be read in a variety of ways: as a psychological investigation of Trump, as a philosophical meditation on the relationship...

Originally published in six volumes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln was called "the greatest historical biography of our generation." Sandburg distilled this work into one volume that became the definitive life of Lincoln.Author: Carl SandburgISBN-10: 0156027526ISBN-13: 9780156027526Publisher: Clarion BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2002Pages: 800Format:...

Mississauga is Canada's sixth largest city and its largest suburban municipality. Toronto's upstart western neighbour, with its multicultural population of more than 700,000, is a place not only of endless subdivisions and monotonous industrial parks, wide thoroughfares, and even wider expressways, but also of...

This engaging book sketches an intimate portrait of the life of Wang Fucheng, an illiterate peasant who served for thirty years as Communist party secretary of an impoverished village on the north China plain. Based on conversations over a seven-year period (1987?1994), between Wang...

"Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat." --New YorkerFrom the seven-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright--among history's most admired and tireless public servants--a revealing, funny, and inspiring reflection on the challenge of continuing one's...

Throughout Dr. Javad's long, entangled and tragic battles with the courts, he has had to represent himself, learn the ropes of the legal profession, and continually be dismissed or mistreated due to his background and disability. Today, he continues fighting, both for himself, and...

Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon. Yet her last four years at...

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A must-read for anyone who wants to know how African-Americans have risen in national politics during the past 50 years.Author: Alex PoinsettISBN-10: 1568330936ISBN-13: 9781568330938Publisher: Madison BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/05/1997Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.17w x 0.87dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 04/07/1997 pg. 87

"One of the best and most readable overviews of the Democrats' evolution on economic issues over the past half-century." -- The Wall Street Journal "Fast-paced, sober, yet hopeful . . . Green is a first-rate journalist." -- The Atlantic One of Politico's 10 books...

An autobiography of Tashi Tsering, the Tibetan nationalist with a burning desire to reform and modernize the old society. It covers his search for education in Tibet and his life in China, especially during the Cultural Revolution, when he was charged as an American...

Author: Elias NasonISBN-10: 1425537723ISBN-13: 9781425537722Publisher: University of Michigan LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2006Pages: 364Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d

On July 18, 1924, a mob in Tehran killed U.S. foreign service officer Robert Whitney Imbrie. His violent death, the first political murder in the history of the service, outraged the American people. Though Imbrie's loss briefly made him a cause c l bre,...

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Touted in his time as one of the "great men of the West," Stephen Wallace Dorsey was a Reconstruction carpetbagger who went to Arkansas and finagled and bribed his way into getting elected to the US Senate after living only two years in the...

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From the moment he set foot on it, Karl Rove has rocked America's political stage. He ran the national College Republicans at twenty-two, and turned a Texas dominated by Democrats into a bastion for Republicans. He launched George W. Bush to national renown by...

New York Magazine national correspondent Gabriel Debenedetti reveals an inside look at the historically close, complicated, occasionally co-dependent, and at-times uncertain relationship between Joe Biden and Barack Obama.Delving far deeper than the simplistic "bromance" narrative that's long held the public eye, The Long Alliance...

Sledgehammer Beck shines the light into the murky corners of one of the darkest periods in Australian law enforcement history. Merv Beckwas born to be an extraordinary policeman and from the outset he proved his mettle. But he was never more severely tested than...

Specific reservation of author's First Amendment rights under the authority of the United States Supreme court case known as Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission 558 US 310, 130 S Ct 876, 175 L. Ed.2d.,753 2010 US LEXIS 766, January 21, 2010.This book is...

On the 50th anniversary of the coup that overthrew Allende, a new edition of this classic text on Chile's socialist president The election in Chile of the Marxist leader of the Socialist Party, Salvador Allende, to the presidency in October 1970 inaugurated a political...

Author: Robert GarciaISBN-10: 1558859632ISBN-13: 9781558859630Publisher: Arte Publico PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2023Pages: 169Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d

A collection of poignant stories and poems of seven East Timorese families living in Melbourne. Since 1975 to 1999, men, women and children, and even grandparents, have been forced to flee their beloved homeland, their culture, their language, their families--and the graves of those...

Martin Bladen was brought into politics on the patronage of Sir Robert Walpole. From a powerful position at the Board of Trade, he held an idyllic vision of harmonious colonists obedient to the Crown's authority, contributing to the mother country's economy but willing to...

Ms. Mayor is a true story about the first woman elected mayor of Cape Coral, Florida, who served from 2013-17, and how the Republican party and her ex-husband schemed to ruin her life. Along with a very public domestic violence case against her ex-husband,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

John A. Johnson was first published in 1949. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.The first native-born governor of Minnesota, and the only Democrat to have...

'Thoughtful, very readable ... We have been lucky, lucky, lucky to have him' - The Times 'Pithy and amusing' - Sunday Times David Dimbleby has interviewed prime ministers and presidents, made award-winning documentaries, chaired Question Time for 25 years, and anchored the BBC's live...

In this "gripping ... spectacular piece of reporting" (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center of numerous investigations into the abuses of power within the American government. For decades now, America's national security state has grown...

"One of the best and most readable overviews of the Democrats' evolution on economic issues over the past half-century." -- The Wall Street Journal "Fast-paced, sober, yet hopeful . . . Green is a first-rate journalist." -- The Atlantic One of Politico's 10 books...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"At a time when the meaning of America is up for grabs, Cody Keenan's new book chronicles ten days that tested us and ultimately showed us at our best. It's a captivating story about what's worth fighting for, an antidote...

Revolutionary novelist, historian, anarchist, Bolshevik and dissident--Victor Serge is one of the most compelling figures of Soviet history. Set against some of the momentous events of the twentieth century, Victor Serge reveals dauntless vigor of a man whose views often reflect the struggles of...

The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume I, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has...

Semafor's Best Political Book of 2023 A riveting insider account of the progressive movement in Congress centering A.O.C., Rashida Tlaib, Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, Ayanna Pressley, and Ilhan Omar--their rise, their efforts to set an ambitious agenda for the country, and their struggle to...

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTSome say that a good president is determined by how they deal with the challenges that are thrown onto them by what is going on in other parts of the world. While others consider the greatness to come from how much initiative...

This book originally began as a series of articles, at the behest of the author's son, for the website Bharat Rakshak. As the articles flowed, the author was the persuaded by his children to expand these articles into something that more resembles a book....

*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "We have a rich man, untrained in diplomacy, unlearned in history and politics, who is a great publicity seeker and who apparently is ambitious to be the first Catholic president of the U.S."...

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Artist and His Politics explores the politics of the leader of the Futurist art movement. Emerging in Italy in 1909, Futurism sought to propel Italy into the modern world, and is famously known for outlandish claims to want to destroy...

The definitive biography of a distinguished public servant, who as US Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State, was pivotal in steering the great powers toward the end of the Cold War. Deftly solving critical but intractable national and global...

In this candid portrait, former two-term senator from Alaska and 2008 presidential candidate Gravel expounds on his views of the military-industrial complex, the imperial presidency, postwar US foreign policy, and corporate America; critically assesses figures he worked with, such as Jimmy Carter and Ted...