Biography & Autobiography - Political

Recently I have been able to prove with Autosomal DNA the Lee descendants of General Robert E Lee and his slave Nancy Ruffin, adding their lineage proudly to our Lee's of Virginia descendancy from Col Richard Lee and Anne Constable. I am forever grateful...

Don't Say I Can't by author Bill Tolley is an unforgettable nonfiction memoir that shares Bill's amazing life story of business and political work, portraying American life in the twentieth century. In Don't Say I Can't, Bill embodies the passionate and indomitable American Spirit,...

Author: Joyce Elaine Wiggin-RobbinsISBN-10: 1514476983ISBN-13: 9781514476987Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/29/2016Pages: 324Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.39lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

On 6 September 1966, inside the House of Assembly in Cape Town, Dimitri Tsafendas fatally stabbed Hendrik Verwoerd, South Africa's Prime Minister and so-called "architect of apartheid." Tsafendas was immediately arrested, and before the authorities had even questioned him, they declared him a madman...

The Political Problem is a book written by Albert Stickney in 1889. It is a political treatise that analyzes the problems faced by the United States government during the late 19th century. Stickney discusses the issues of corruption, bureaucracy, and the growing power of...

This book is the first autobiography from leading Egyptian feminist Dr. Nawal El Saadawi, written at the age of ten in the form of fiction as she explores her early awakening to the world around her. Now known for her bold spirit and probing...

Author: Zalmay KhalilzadISBN-10: 1250345405ISBN-13: 9781250345400Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PLLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/22/2016Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78d

Lord Acton for Our Time illuminates the thought of the English historian, politician, and writer who gave us the famous maxim: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Extracting lessons for our current age, Christopher Lazarski focuses on liberty--how Acton understood it,...

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...

In the decades since Latinas began to hold public office in the United States in the late 1950s, they have blazed new trails in public life, bringing fresh perspectives, leadership styles, and policy agendas to the business of governing cities, counties, states, and the...

THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON, THE FATHER OF AMERICAN BANKING.Also includes: The Federalist Papers Conjectures About the New Constitution The Biography of Alexander Hamilton: with Conjectures About the New Constitution, The Federalist Papers and Other Writings from The Father of American Banking is...

The first biography to be based on interviews with Ardern and those around her 'It takes courage to be an empathetic leader. And I think if anything the world needs empathetic leadership now, perhaps more than ever.' Jacinda Ardern Jacinda Ardern was swept to...

Tranquility, transformation, and transcendence is what Mary K. Doyle insists you will find when strolling through the 72 poems and photos inspired by the natural treasures found in three Chicago suburban public gardens--Cantigny Park in Wheaton, The Morton Arboretum in Lisle, and Chicago Botanic...

ONE MAN'S FIGHT AGAINST A CORRUPT LEGAL SYSTEM. "IF IT CAN HAPPEN TO ME, IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU."Author: Frank a. LordiISBN-10: 1670489051ISBN-13: 9781670489050Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/02/2019Pages: 226Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.48d

In the new afterword Ralph Rossum covers Antonin Scalia's entire career and discusses the thirty-eight major opinions since the original 2006 publication, including District of Columbia v. Heller, his dissent in the Obamacare cases of NFIB v. Sebelius and King v. Burwell, his important...

This massive six volume set gathers together the most important spoken and written words of Debs for the first time, allowing a deeper understanding of radical political opposition in America during the first quarter of the twentieth century.Author: Tim DavenportISBN-10: 1642591807ISBN-13: 9781642591804Publisher: Haymarket BooksLanguage:...

My Political Journey: Jamaica's Sixth Prime Minister is P.J. Patterson's account of his time as an active and successful participant in the political and social development of Jamaica and the Caribbean from the mid-1950s well into the early 2000s. He was widely regarded as...

Tiberius has always been one of the most enigmatic of the Roman emperors. At the same time, his career is uniquely important for the understanding of the Empire's development on the foundations laid by Augustus.Barbara Levick offers a comprehensive and engaging portrait of the...

*Includes famous art depicting King Louis XVI and important people, places, and events in his life. *Explains his reign and role in the American Revolution and French Revolution. *Analyzes his execution and legacy. "I die perfectly innocent of the so-called crimes of which I...

Winner of the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Red Star Tattoo is Sonja Larsen's unforgettable memoir of a young life spent on the move, from hardscrabble Milwaukee to dreamy Hawaii, from turbulent Montreal...

How to Steal a City is an insider account of this intervention, which lays bare how the administration was entirely captured and bled dry by a criminal syndicate, how factional politics within the ruling party abetted that corruption, and how a comprehensive clean-up was...

A plainspoken, racy patrician who distrusted democracy but opposed slavery and championed freedom for all minorities, an important player in the American Revolution, later an astute critic of the French Revolution, Gouverneur Morris remains an enigma among the founding generation. This comprehensive, engrossing biography...

Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956) rose from a community of "untouchables," to become a major figure in modern Indian history. Christophe Jaffrelot's biography reconsiders Dr. Ambedkar's life and thought and his unique combination of pragmatism and idealism. Establishing himself as a scholar, activist, journalist,...

After visiting my hometown of Thomaston, Georgia, in summer of 1991, I took a train back to New York and met two guys whom I started conversing with about our various lives. One guy was into artwork, and all I remember is that his...

What does it take to persevere in the face of obstacles? How can we overcome our fears to live our dreams? In this inspirational memoir, Darren Peters shares deeply personal stories rooted in his own indefatigable spirit. Drawing from his beginnings in Little Rock,...

First published in 1909, W.E.B. Du Bois's biography of abolitionist John Brown is a literary and historical classic. With a rare combination of scholarship and passion, Du Bois defends Brown against all detractors who saw him as a fanatic, fiend, or traitor. Brown emerges...

Praised as "a shining example of what autobiography can be: harrowing, illuminating and thoughtful" (USA Today), Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an idyllic childhood which became the stuff of nightmare. As a child she witnessed the upheavals...

The story of Tony Simms has been kept under lock and key... Until now This is like no other story you will have read before. Tony Simms has lead a life some people would only dream about, as he leaves no stone unturned. From...

First published in 1974, The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock grew out of a magazine article coauthored by Jan Reid. His first book was a sensation in Texas. It portrayed an Austin-based live music explosion variously described as progressive country, cosmic cowboys, and outlaw...

Wallace Jernigan has somehow managed to fill the time allotted for one life with a multitude of lives well-lived. His thirst for knowledge made him a civil engineer, a businessman, a beekeeper, and a licensed mortician. His zeal for adventure led him into politics,...

Outfoxing all other military and political personnel in the territory of Baja California Norte, Colonel Esteban Cant , on becoming governor, astutely played the leaders of the Mexican Revolution one against another. A compelling figure in the Mexican Revolution, he maintained his independence from...

Riding the rough and sometimes bloody peaks and canyons of border politics, Santos Benavides's rise to prominence was largely the result of the careful mentoring of his well-known uncle, Basilio Benavides, who served several terms as alcalde of Laredo, Texas, and Chief Justice of...

Flora Isabel MacDonald - politician, humanitarian, adventurer, and role model for a generation of women - was known across Canada and beyond simply as Flora. In her memoir, co-authored by award-winning journalist and author Geoffrey Stevens, she tells her personal story for the very...

January 6, 1955. It was on the occasion of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's third annual State of the Union message. The president unexpectedly began his speech by mentioning that it was January 6 and the 72nd birthday of the venerable Speaker of the House,...

Political profiles of five mayors and their lasting impact on the city Chicago's transformation into a global city began at City Hall. Dick Simpson and Betty O'Shaughnessy edit in-depth analyses of the five mayors that guided the city through this transition beginning with Harold...

In this third installment of belief-shattering, mind-blowing revelations from a so-called paranoid schizophrenic, the boundaries of reality shift as the reader begins to see the world through the eyes of an apostle who has finally found his prophet. Michael Lutterschmidt, who considers himself a...

By 1994, Arizona Governor Fife Symington was arguably the hottest young star in the Republican Party--a lively, articulate voice for a new breed of culturally moderate conservatives perfectly positioned for a US Senate run and perhaps a shot at the presidency in 2000. Instead,...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022. Eleven of the fifteen postwar British prime ministers went to Oxford. In Chums, Simon Kuper traces how the rarefied and privileged atmosphere of this narrowest of talent pools - and the friendships and worldviews...

Covering the decade between his entry into the Pentagon and Nixon's resignation, Secrets is Ellsberg's meticulously detailed insider's account of the secrets and lies that shaped American foreign policy during the Vietnam era.Author: Daniel EllsbergISBN-10: 1665186364ISBN-13: 9781665186360Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/17/2002Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.15lbs

Whether facing a near-death experience, adversity, high-or low-expectations, insurmountable odds, or going for it and falling short, this inspiring memoir will encourage you to RISE UP!In Touchdown America, author Robby Wells shares his numerous life experiences in sports, politics, and as a national and...

James Rogan was born to a single mother cocktail waitress who later raised her four children on welfare and food stamps, and who ended up as a convicted felon. His bartender father abandoned his mother and him before his birth. Despite growing up in...

George T. Ruby was the most widely known of the first generation of black politicians in Texas, establishing during the Reconstruction both a local and national reputation as a strident advocate of equal rights. Born in New York City and reared in Maine, Ruby...

Sarah E. Walters' unusual book from a century ago reads better than a current novel, yet an appendix of newspaper articles from the period verifies that everything she says is true. Her story is that of an extraordinary ordinary woman with elementary schooling who...

Witnesses were mysteriously murdered. The FBI, NSA, CIA, and even the IRS were on the warpath. It was 1975, and a senator named Frank Church stood almost alone in the face of extraordinary abuses of power.For decades now, America's national security state has grown...

Is a comprehensive analytical study of the life of the founder of the Wahhabi movement and his political exploitation of religion. It addresses his life journey and the social climate in which he launched a mission that would serve as an inspiration for terrorism....

*Includes pictures of Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky and important people, places, and events in their lives. *Explains each man's role in the Revolution and its aftermath. *Discusses the conspiracy theories surrounding Stalin's death and how Stalin came to power against Lenin's wishes. *Includes a bibliography...

In his heyday, Carlo Tresca ranked among the most important radicals and labour activists in the United States, often sharing the spotlight with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 'Big Bill' Haywood, and Emma Goldman. A charismatic Italian anarchist who became a folk hero to immigrant and...

John Humphrey Noyes, founder of utopian communities in Putney, Vermont, and Oneida, New York, remain one of the most enigmatic reformers of the nineteenth century. The last biography, written over forty years ago, portrayed Noyes as a "Yankee Saint," a man of progressive ideas...

George 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 Woon Tai Ho and research...

The inventor, the ladies' man, the affable diplomat, and the purveyor of pithy homespun wisdom: we all know the charming, resourceful Benjamin Franklin. What is less appreciated is the importance of Franklin's part in the American Revolution: except for Washington he was its most...