Biography & Autobiography - Political

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...

Combining Young Lenin and On Lenin in one volume, this is a fascinating political biography by Lenin's fellow revolutionary, Leon Trotsky. Trotsky on Lenin brings together two long-out-of-print works in a single volume for the first time, providing an intimate and illuminating portrait of...

A political portrait focused on Guevara's thought and political record aimed at dispelling many of the myths about the revolutionary.Author: Samuel FarberISBN-10: 1608466019ISBN-13: 9781608466016Publisher: Haymarket BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/26/2016Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d

A collection of intimate portraits told directly by people whose lives have been devastated by solitary confinement in America.Author: Taylor PendergrassISBN-10: 1608465314ISBN-13: 9781608465316Publisher: Haymarket BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/20/2018Pages: 345Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d

Lydersen lambasts Chicago's nationally recognized mayor for his obedient endorsement of the devastating austerity agenda set forth by the one-percent.Author: Kari LydersenISBN-10: 1608462226ISBN-13: 9781608462223Publisher: Haymarket BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/12/2013Pages: 308Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 10/14/2013Booklist 11/01/2013 pg. 14

When Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik party led the first successful workers revolution in history, they were under no illusions that their work was finished with the overthrow of capitalism in Russia. As the fledgling workers' state was gripped by a civil war, the...

InFidel and Gabo, Marquez scholars Angel Esteban and Stephanie Panichelli examine this strange, intimate, and incredibly controversial friendship between the beloved author and Cuban dictator, exposing facets of their personalities never before revealed to the greater public. For years, Marquez, long fascinated with power,...

Henry Morgenthau, Jr. was a young man living in an interesting political and social atmosphere. Surrounded by people who viewed the world through a Social Darwinist lens, and grappling with his identity as an American Jew during the atrocities of WWII in Europe, Henry...

Winston Churchill - Biography of a Nobel Statesmen is a biography of Winston Churchill, a British politician and wartime prime minister who led his country to victory in World War Two. Among his notable achievements, Churchill was a master statesman and strategist, an officer...

Sir Francis Bacon - English Philosopher and Statesman is the biography of Sir Francis Bacon, an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist. Bacon is also known as a proponent of the scientific revolution. According to John Aubrey, his dedication may have brought him into a...

Heinrich Himmler - Founder of the Nazi Concentration Camps is the biography of Heinrich Himmler, a commander of the Schutzstaffel (SS), as well as one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. As Reichsf hrer-SS he controlled the SS, and to a degree,...

Rasputin - The Mad Monk is a biography of Grigori Rasputin, the famous Russian mystic, psychic and faith healer. Rasputin was perceived as having influenced the later days of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II and was said to have intentionally discredited the Tsarist government,...

John Marshall (1755-1835) became the fourth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court despite having had almost no formal schooling and after having studied law for a mere six weeks. Nevertheless, Marshall remains the only judge in American history whose distinction derives almost entirely...

The memoir of a beloved San Antonio public servantAuthor: Lila Banks CockrellISBN-10: 1595349111ISBN-13: 9781595349118Publisher: Maverick BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2020Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbs

New details of the remarkable relationship between two leaders who teamed up to change history. It's well known that Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were close allies and kindred political spirits. During their eight overlapping years as U.S. president and UK prime minister, they...

Before September 11, 2001 we Americans did not think much about freedom or democracy in the Middle East. U.S. policy toward the region aimed to assure a reliable flow of oil, to encourage peace between the Arabs and Israel, and above all, during the...

In My Life as a Revolutionary, Maria Eugenia Vasquez Perdomo presents a gripping account of her experiences as a member of M-19, one of the most successful guerrilla movements in Colombia's tumultuous modern history. Vasquez's remarkable story opens with her happy childhood in a...

Named a Notable Translated Book of the Year by World Literature Today A poignant and unexpectedly inspirational account of women's suffering and resilience in Stalin's forced labor camps, diligently transcribed in the kitchens and living rooms of nine survivors. The pain inflicted by the...

"Renunciation" is the dramatic story of a man who was awarded and then renounced the Medal of Honor. This book will take you on a journey with a Catholic priest who first found the war in Vietnam to meet the "just war" criteria of...

The staggering story of the most important Chinese political dissident of the Mao era, a devout Christian who was imprisoned, tortured, and executed by the regime Blood Letters tells the astonishing tale of Lin Zhao, a poet and journalist arrested by the authorities in...

An eminent molecular physicist and path-breaking crystallographer, an eloquent and prescient writer on the social implications of science, an early foe of pseudo-scientific racism and an indefatigable campaigner for peace and civil rights: as a scientist and a Communist intellectual, J.D. Bernal was caught...

An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself in the growing field of...

The political autobiography of the insurgent presidential candidate Bernie Sanders's campaign for the presidency of the United States has galvanized people all over the country, putting economic, racial, and social justice into the spotlight, and raising hopes that Americans can take their country back...

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin visited London on six occasions at the beginning of the twentieth century and it was in this city, where Marx wrote Das Kapital, that the roots of Lenin's political thought took shape. This book, from a former curator of the Russian...

"Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system," Suetonius."Upon the whole, he added nothing to his own happiness by all the dangers, the fatigues, and the perpetual anxiety which he had...

C.G. Tracey became a farmer at sixteen at the beginning of the Second World War. Entrepreneuer, businessman, plant-breeder, racehorse owner and breeder, sanctions-buster, chairman and director of many companies, husband, father and gentleman, C.G. was active and involved through the many unsettled years of...

A lifetime of engagement with religion, philosophy, and activism in a series of fascinating reflections. Brilliant, fractious, mordantly funny, playwright/novelist/essayist Rick Salutin has been Canadian journalism's agent provocateur for over three decades. Whether needling governments and politicians, holding public policy to account, or decrying...

Albert Rene is a towering figure of modern Seychelle, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, east of mainland Southeast Africa and northeast of the island of Madagascar. He arouses intense emotions in both admirers and opponents. This first full-length biography analyzes Rene's early years,...

Creating a Homeland is the true story of two families from Eastern Europe whose dedication, sacrifice, and pioneering spirit helped bring about the modern State of Israel as a homeland for Jews anywhere: Sam, the young man with two engineering degrees who speaks seven...

THIS volume discloses the mental operations of perhaps the most thoroughly practical politician of the day-George Washington Plunkitt, Tammany leader of the Fifteenth Assembly District, Sachem of the Tammany Society and Chairman of the Elections Committee of Tammany Hall, who has held the offices...

Explore the Captivating Life of James Madison James Madison earned the title "Father of the Constitution." How did this man who was diminutive of stature with a weak constitution produce such an energetic document? Through more than 200 years, it stands like a silent...

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "The independence of Texas is recognized Don't you see it in the papers?" - Stephen F. Austin's last words Texas has a unique history among the 50 states that comprise...

This autobiography follows West Virginia Senator Robert C. Byrd's experiences from his boyhood in the early 1920s to his election in 2000, which won him an unprecedented eighth term in the Senate.Author: Robert C. ByrdISBN-10: 1940425549ISBN-13: 9781940425542Publisher: West Virginia University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2015Pages: 848Format:...

The biography of the Late Senator Max E. Benitz, Sr., has been twenty years in the making. Daughter Eileen Benitz Wagner with Dr. Michele Gerber has chronicled his life. From his pioneering of raw sagebrush land near Prosser, Washington, to his life and career...

Americans love to trash their politicians as corrupt and self-interested, but they don't agree on a solution. How can America attract good leaders to the thousands of elective offices in the land? In Politicians: The Worst Kind of People to Run the Government, Except...

This book describes the trials of probationary firefighter Richard A. Meo from his training at the New York City Fire Department Firefighting School at Randall's Island, through his assignments as a Firefighter, Lieutenant, and Captain. Over one hundred fires and emergencies are chronicled from...

Salar al-Dowleh, the madcap prince and serial rebel, was a reflection of the unsettled political times during the early 1900s when Iranian society was trying to find its way toward a more democratic society. This is also clear from Salar al-Dowleh's "career." He was...

"Peter was a friend, colleague and politically courageous champion of the downtrodden and mistreated of the entire Western Hemisphere."--Ralph NaderThis is the autobiography of a remarkable life. As The New York Times wrote, "A first generation Venezuelan-American . . . Mr. Camejo [spoke] out...

Visionary empire-builder, ultimate Kipling hero, the carrier -- for England -- of "the white man's burden," Rhodes in his time was revered in England. Who else had a huge country named after him? His life-long dream was the world federation of states, cessation of...

Gandhi's long-time friend and collaborator edited and annotated Gandhi's autobiography and many of his writings.Author: C. F. AndrewsISBN-10: 1931541159ISBN-13: 9781931541152Publisher: Simon PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1930Pages: 376Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 8.92h x 6.10w x 0.93d

An impartial analysis of the much criticized presidency of war-hero U. S. Grant, a remarkable biography by historian Hesseltine of the University of Wisconsin.Author: William B. HesseltineISBN-10: 1931313857ISBN-13: 9781931313858Publisher: Simon PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2001Pages: 480Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.85lbsSize: 8.96h x 6.14w x 1.33d

Author: Albert ApponyiISBN-10: 1931313423ISBN-13: 9781931313421Publisher: Simon PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1935Pages: 344Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d

Che Guevara still inspires resistance against capitalism throughout the globe. His image has become an iconic international symbol of the struggle against economic exploitation. Guevara was a physician, a key revolutionary figure within Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, and an international guerilla leader...

Inside the Presidency: the Trials and Tribulations of a Zambian Spin Doctor is a captivating chronicle of the goings on at the centre of state power as told by an insider. It captures the intrigues at the presidency, specifically associated with the author's time...

GEORGE WASHINGTONThis book covers the topic of George Washington, and serves as a biography of his incredible life and accomplishments. Inside, you will discover how America's first President came to be, and just how much of an impact he had on the development of...

'Portrait of a Leader' is a unique biography of Sir Oswald Mosley: the Leader of the British Union of Fascists. Unlike subsequent biographies published years after the events, this book was written in 1937 at the height of Mosley's struggle to redistribute the wealth...

'My Answer' was Oswald Mosley's first book after his long wartime imprisonment by the British Government without charge, without trial and without right to judicial appeal, for the crime of being opposed to the Second World War which was to cost 60 million lives...

Sir Oswald Mosley came upon the political scene like a meteor. A hero of World War One, he was the youngest MP elected to the British Parliament at age 22. When the Labour Government refused to tackle the problem of unemployment he resigned from...

"Mosley - The Facts" offers an eclectic overview of Oswald Mosley's contribution to political thought as expressed through his speeches and writings both before and after the Second World War. It also includes appraisals of his ideas and career by political contemporaries such as...

Adolf Eichmann was head of Gestapo Division IV-B4, the Third Reich's notorious Security Service, and he was responsible for implementing the "Final Solution" of the European Jews in the Greater German Reich. Though arrested at the end of the war by the U.S. army,...