Biography & Autobiography - Political

Everyone dreams of restoring a country home. For an American, it might be a cottage by a lake; for a Frenchman, a stone house in Provence. But for Radek Sikorski, a Polish exile living in England, the dream seemed impossible - until 1989, and...

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When asked to join the Communist Party as an informant in the FBI, Cvetic was told he would have to give up his life as he knew it. He infiltrated the part and served in his undercover role from 1941-1950. He endured nine torturous...

Senator Jim Jeffords's disarmingly frank memoir recounts his idyllic small-town childhood in Rutland, Vermont, his somewhat unruly adolescence, putting himself through Yale University with the help of NROTC, traveling the world during his three-year navy service, and his courtship of Elizabeth Daley when he...

Time magazine listed him as one of its "100 People Who Shape Our World." Newsweek featured him on its cover under the headline "How Al-Sadr May Control U.S. Fate in Iraq." Paul Bremer denounced him as a "Bolshevik Islamist" and ordered that he be...

He was Nixon's hatchet man. A jailed felon. And now, one of the most significant Christian leaders of our time. Here is his life story.Charles Colson has become one of the most revered leaders of our time. His ministry outreach, Prison Fellowship, has swelled...

A new account of America's most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of America's current imperial stance In this fascinating book Kissinger's Shadow, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin argues that to understand the crisis of contemporary America--its...

THE FIRST INSIDE ACCOUNT TO BE PUBLISHED ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON'S TIME AS SECRETARY OF STATE, ANCHORED BY GHATTAS'S OWN PERSPECTIVE AND HER QUEST TO UNDERSTAND AMERICA'S PLACE IN THE WORLD. In November 2008, Hillary Clinton agreed to work for her former rival. As President...

A new biography of Nancy Astor, American socialite and social crusader who blazed a trail through British society amid two World Wars In 1919, Nancy Astor became the first female Member of Parliament elected to the House of Commons--she was not what had been...

What would cause an otherwise intelligent, well-educated, and, by all accounts, privileged Californian to forgo an easy life in the United States to struggle for survival in a land of strife and mortal danger? With this question in mind, journalist Mark Kukis retraces the...

William Wilberforce is now remembered mainly for his leadership of the two great crusades to abolish the Slave Trade and later to free the slaves. He took up their cause when he was in his twenties and received the news of their freedom on...

Originally published in 1970, this is the story of Haiti under the rule of Dr. Fran ois Duvalier. Bernard Diederich lived in Haiti for 14 years and had personal experience of the early Duvalier days and the period of Maloire's rule. His work exposes...

Scholar, author, editor, teacher, reformer, and civil rights leader, W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was a major figure in American life and one of the earliest proponents of equality for black Americans. He was a founder and leader of the Niagara Movement, the NAACP, and...

A stirring portrait of Vice President Mike Pence from his own daughter: the story of a Christian husband and father who answers the call to serve America with his family by his side. When Mike Pence set out on the vice presidential campaign trail,...

The Repatriate was awarded first place in the Memoir category at the Hollywood Book Festival (2017); and second place in both the Reader's Views Literary Awards (2017), and the San Francisco Book Festival (2017). In addition, it received high rankings in the Royal Dragonfly...

Author: Andrew SchneiderISBN-10: 1540231402ISBN-13: 9781540231406Publisher: History Press Library EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/21/2012Pages: 258Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Hattie Caraway unexpectedly became the first female U.S. senator in 1931 by filling the seat of her late husband. What her colleagues viewed as an honorary position was in fact the start of a distinguished career. Despite strong male opposition, Hattie won reelection and...

The Broadway hit Hamilton has sparked unprecedented interest in its historical protagonist, Alexander Hamilton. For readers just discovering Hamilton or those with an insatiable appetite for books on the Founders, Tony Williams's quick-moving, concise biography will shed new light on this American icon now...

When the revolt of a people that feels itself oppressed is successful, it is written down in history as a revolution-as in this country in 1776. When it fails, it is called an insurrection-as in Ireland in 1916. Those who conquer usually write the...

This engaging narrative by a former mayor offers a rare inside look at the workings of city government under the strong-mayor system . . . the politics and personalities that shaped the growth of her town in a crucial period of its history. This...

Tawfiq Zayyad (1929-94) was a renowned Palestinian poet and a committed communist activist. For four decades, he was a dominant figure in political life in Israel, as a local council member, mayor of Nazareth, and member of the Israeli parliament. Zayyad personified the collective...

The Revolution of '28 explores the career of New York governor and 1928 Democratic presidential nominee Alfred E. Smith. Robert Chiles peers into Smith's work and uncovers a distinctive strain of American progressivism that resonated among urban, ethnic, working-class Americans in the early twentieth...

When Hurricane Katrina hit Mississippi on August 29, 2005, it unleashed the costliest natural disaster in American history, and the third deadliest. Haley Barbour had been Mississippi's governor for only twenty months when he assumed responsibility for guiding his pummeled, stricken state's recovery and...

The classic graphic biography of Che Guevara--the most iconic revolutionary of the twentieth century This dramatic and extensively researched book breathes new life into the story of Ernesto "Che" Guevara. It portrays his revolutionary struggle through the appropriate medium of the underground political comic--one...

He was at the forefront of some of Germany's most definitive and controversial decisions, in his role as the first Social Democrat Chancellor of West Germany between 1969 and 1974. In this period he paved the way for the eventual reunification of the country,...

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. -Mahatma Gandhi "It seems presumptuous to pick holes in Gandhi's campaigns and strategies, and appear to belittle a man of epic...

A dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave, was first published in 1845, when its author had just achieved his freedom, which includes a 21st century study guide.Author: Frederick DouglassISBN-10: 1722502207ISBN-13: 9781722502201Publisher: G&D MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2019Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.00h x...

Available for the first time, Victor Serge's intimate account of the last decade of his life gives a vivid look into the Franco-Russian revolutionary's life, from his liberation from Stalin's Russia to his "Mexico Years," when he wrote his greatest works. In 1936, Victor...

Eugene V. Debs exploded upon the national scene in 1894 as the leader of a sensational strike by his American Railway Union (ARU) against the Pullman Parlor Car Company--a job stoppage which paralyzed the country's transportation network for nearly two weeks. On January 1,...

On August 7, 1998, three years before President George W. Bush declared the War on Terror, the radical Islamist group al-Qaeda bombed the American embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, where Prudence Bushnell was serving as U.S. ambassador. Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience is her account of...

Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as co-leader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him one of the most recognized personalities of the Twentieth Century, a global icon of radical change. Yet just months earlier,...

In the first biography of U.S. House Speaker John W. McCormack, author Garrison Nelson uncovers previously forgotten FBI files, birth and death records, and correspondence long thought lost or buried. For such an influential figure, McCormack tried to dismiss the past, almost erasing his...

This is the fascinating biography of a bright young working man, Tom Hickey, who came to the United States from Ireland in 1892, became a machinist, and soon joined the Knights of Labor and the Socialist Labor Party. His party boss recognized the potential...

He helped engineer one of the greatest upsets in political history--the election of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States. Now, after a short and turbulent tenure in the White House, Steve Bannon is working on the outside to propel forward his...

The leader of Burma's democracy movement, Aung San Suu Kyi, has joined Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and the Dalai Lama in the global pantheon of those whose lives are dedicated to freedom. Throughout the world, she is associated with a...

An accessible guide to the principles and vision of Dag Hammarskjd, a man John F. Kennedy called "the greatest statesman of our century." Dag Hammarskjd served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1953 until his tragic Dag Hammarskjd served as secretary-general of the...

The untold story of an enigmatic genius who changed warfare forever In the World War II era, Geoffrey Pyke was described as one of the world's great minds -- to rank alongside Einstein. Pyke was an inventor, adventurer, polymath, and unlikely hero of both...

A riveting biography of one of German Communism's most important, if little studied rank and file leaders.Author: Ralf HoffroggeISBN-10: 1608469964ISBN-13: 9781608469963Publisher: Haymarket BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/11/2018Pages: 660Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.95lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.50d

This engrossing political biography aims to lift Gramsci's legacy out of the sterile debates that have endured since his death.Author: Alastair DavidsonISBN-10: 1608468259ISBN-13: 9781608468256Publisher: Haymarket BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/20/2018Pages: 344Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d

John Stuart Mill's Autobiography, published posthumously, is an honest account of the education of this great thinker of the nineteenth century. It is an amazing account of an extraordinary life.Author: John Stuart MillISBN-10: 1604503149ISBN-13: 9781604503142Publisher: ARC ManorLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2008Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 9.00h x...

An Unabridged, Edition to Include All Four Parts, With Original Footnotes and Illustrations -Author: Alexander BerkmanISBN-10: 1603866191ISBN-13: 9781603866194Publisher: Merchant BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/06/2013Pages: 350Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.73d

Republicans on the Throne is a memoir spanning the author Tekalign Gedamu's early life during the waning days of the old feudal order, his six-decade career in the United Nations, the African Development Bank, and the government of Ethiopia. The book describes the author's...

This book chronicles some of the most influential people who call San Francisco "Home" as told by Dr. John Kerner, a longtime champion of women's health and the war on cancer. Folks we call "heroes" are not just limited to the military. A former...

Jos Mar a de Jes s Carvajalis both a biography of a Mexican postrevolutionary and a study of the development of a new border between Mexico and the United States during the crucial decades of the early to mid-nineteenth century. The work examines the...

In Strom, Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson deliver a remarkable look at the life of a remarkable -- and complicated -- politician. First elected to public office in 1929, Strom Thurmond was a pivotal figure in the nation's politics for more than seven...

Unfinished Agenda offers an inside look at the Black Power Movement that emerged during the Civil Rights Movement of the sixties. A political memoir that teaches grass-roots politics and inspires organizing for real change in the Age of Obama, this book will appeal to...

Alan Berkman (1945-2009) was no campus radical in the mid-1960s; he was a promising Ivy League student, football player, Eagle Scout, and fraternity president. But when he was a medical student and doctor, his politics began to change, and soon he was providing covert...

Under This Beautiful Dome tells the true story of journalist Terry Mutchler's secret five-year relationship with Penny Severns, an Illinois State Senator who mentored Barack Obama. Forced to engage in an elaborate ruse to keep their relationship a secret, the two women constantly fear...

A poignant memoir of pre-1979 Iran and the human drama behind the fall of the last shah In October 1999 during a trip to Cairo, Cyrus Kadivar, an exiled Iranian living in London, visited the tomb of the last shah and opened a Pandora's...

This is the black-and-white edition of the book "The Cult of the Will". This study deals with the complex issues of race, history and politics in Caribbean society. In its first part, "Fran ois Besson", it examines the fortunes of a French creole family...