Biography & Autobiography - Political

Myanmar is once again at a critical crossroad with a general election and important decisions to be made. These memoirs look back to events leading up to 1960 and put on record some of the critical developments and situations of national importance that the...

In 1963, Martin Luther King led 250,000 followers to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington and began to tell the assembled mass of all races and creeds of his vision for the future, 'I have a dream....'. The following year the Civil Rights Act became...

North Korea remains one of the last bastions of old-style communism: a military dictatorship, ruled with an iron grip for the last sixty years by the Kim dynasty. Every aspect of society is rigidly controlled; a country of paranoia, propaganda, and juche.Irish Engineer, Dualta...

Awarded author and survivor of the Sierra Leonean and Liberian civil wars, Joseph Kaifala recounts his journey to America with literary finesse and sincere recollection.Author: Joseph KaifalaISBN-10: 1681626845ISBN-13: 9781681626840Publisher: TurnerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/06/2018Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of an election and who is responsible for overseeing how they are conducted? Most people have not because they show up to their polling place, stand in line for a few minutes, sign in...

They said Trump's ground campaign didn't exist. I knew differently because I ran it from New Hampshire to California. The future of our country was at stake, and I quarterbacked the best door knocking teams across the country. We dominated over Hillary Clinton's ground...

This is the story of a nineteenth-century hero: Carl Schurz led German revolutionary refugee immigrants, 48ers, to make major contributions to American society. His career as a reformer, orator, foreign ambassador, Civil War general, United States senator, Secretary of the Interior and newspaper editorial...

The Life of Daniel Webster is a biography of the congressman who also served as Secretary of State under three presidents.Author: Edward EverettISBN-10: 1535220627ISBN-13: 9781535220620Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/13/2016Pages: 142Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.30d

World War II is raging and Roland Gottlieb is separated from his family by his position as a German diplomat in Bulgaria. When Bulgaria declares war on Germany the actions of his superiors leave him and his colleagues in the hands of the Russians....

""A Christian who truly walks the radical way of the cross. Phil Berrigan overturns the tables of injustice and summons us to love our enemies and worship the God of peace. Like Thoreau, Ghandi, King, and Dorothy Day, Phil Berrigan exemplifies courage. He is...

This is a biography of little-known Missouri senator James A. Reed, who was in the running for the Democratic Partys presidential nomination in 1928 and 1932. While in the United States Senate, Reed was the leading opponent to president Woodrow Wilsons effort to have...

In the 1960s, a young American president helped initiate the civil rights movement, captured the imagination of a nation with the establishment of the Peace Corps, launched the space age, nurtured the birth of the computer/digital age, and began the escalation of a war...

At forty-three years old, during the height of the Cold War, author Richard H. Shriver was offered an appointment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as director of telecommunications and command-and-control systems. He had a long-standing desire to see from the inside...

Following a bitter Civil War, America ended the abhorrent practice of slavery on Dec. 6, 1865, the day the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. Now, the African-American community, along with other minority groups, is being lead back to enslavement through government handouts...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1908 Edition.Author: John MorleyISBN-10: 1498110061ISBN-13: 9781498110068Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 534Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.56lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.08d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.Author: AnonymousISBN-10: 1497876931ISBN-13: 9781497876934Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/29/2014Pages: 190Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his personal experiences in working to rise from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new...

Welcoming its first executive in 1842, the Mississippi Governor's Mansion is the second-oldest continuously occupied governor's residence in the United States. The Mansion is both a public building open for tours and the private residence of the governor and his family. In this unique...

For decades after the Second World War, Senator James O. Eastland (1904-1986) was one of the more intransigent leaders of the Deep South's resistance to what he called "the Second Reconstruction." And yet he developed, late in his life, a very real friendship with...

*Includes pictures of Malcolm X and important people, places, and events in his life. *Explains the origins of the name Malcolm X. *Includes some of Malcolm X's most famous quotes, and a detailed description of his "The Ballot or The Bullet" speech. "Our objective...

A breakthrough Elizabeth Warren biography by best-selling author Antonia Felix.Elizabeth Warren's rise as one of America's most powerful women is a stirring lesson in persistence. From her fierce support of the middle class to her unapologetic response to political bullies, Warren is known as...

When Peter Marmureanu started learning tennis in communist-held Romania, he was ten years old, playing barefoot on clay courts, swinging a wooden paddle that served as a racket. Eight years later, as a member of Romania's Davis Cup team, Marmureanu was traveling side by...

Vasily Zarubin ranked as an important Soviet intelligence officer, but he has received little recognition in the history of intelligence in the United States. In Rezident, author Robert K. Baker, who worked with foreign counterintelligence matters for the FBI during a thirty-three-year career, presents...

During the six months before December of 1776, Commanding General, George Washington had retreated from nine consecutive battles with the British in New Jersey and had lost ninety percent of his army. Brigadier General, Arthur St. Clair answered the call with fresh troops, took...

During the six months before December of 1776, Commanding General, George Washington had retreated from nine consecutive battles with the British in New Jersey and had lost ninety percent of his army. Brigadier General, Arthur St. Clair answered the call with fresh troops, took...

Ernest Charles Drury (1878-1968) became the eighth premier of Ontario after the United Farmers of Ontario won the 1919 provincial election. Charles M. Johnston follows the career of Drury through agrarian activism and partisan politics, and explores the personal and ideological forces that directed...

Louis St. Laurent was appointed to the Cabinet in 1941 and seven years later succeeded Mackenzie King as Leader of the Liberal party and as Prime Minister. J.W. Pickersgill was then head of the Prime Minister's Office. 'In a sense, ' he writes, 'King...

Taras Shevchenko is undoubtedly Ukraine's greatest literary genius and national hero. His extraordinary life-story is recounted in this classic work by Pavlo Zaitsev. Born in 1814, the son of a poor serf, Shevchenko succeeded in winning his freedom and became an art student in...

Originally published in 2004, Red Diaper Baby is James Laxer's compelling and extraordinary memoir of growing up in a communist family during the height of the Cold War. When Jim was born in a Montreal hospital, his father was living in hiding under an...

When Soha Al-Jurf goes in search of her father's Palestinian village, she believes she is embarking on a journey that will help her reconcile the conflicted parts of her identity as a Palestinian-American Muslim woman. Instead, what she had anticipated would be the end...

A colorful and controversial statesman who served in the United States Senate for a half-century, Strom Thurmond did not retire from office until after he was 100 years old. Hailing from the small town of Edgefield, South Carolina, Thurmond rapidly ascended the political ladder--Superintendent...

"Those among us who survived," says Melanija, "did so because we were unbelievably full of the determination and will to live, and faith in our ultimate liberation, as well as because all the disasters arose unexpectedly." From her own and some of her fellow...

The incredible, inside story of the man and the organization changing the way we change the world.George Soros is well known as the legendary speculator who made a fortune betting against the British pound in 1992, but he is also a philanthropist who has...

In Exit Emperor Kim Jong-il, authors John H. Cha and K. J. Sohn present a compelling portrait of two men caught up in a struggle for the survival of North Korean society. Th e product of an eight-year study of individuals who observed and...

Author: John Watson MiltonISBN-10: 1456880713ISBN-13: 9781456880712Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/09/2012Pages: 690Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.52d

Author: Themba NzimandeISBN-10: 1456880683ISBN-13: 9781456880682Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/08/2011Pages: 244Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

I wrote this book because, sadly, I see the United States turning more and more towards communism. As misinformed Americans embrace eagerly the total socialist society concept, the nanny state, I hear the "echo" of my hard communist life in Romania and the cries...

Like See No Evil and At the Center of the Storm, this is a vivid and gripping account of the Central Intelligence Agency, a life of secrets, and a war in the shadows. Called the "Bob Gates of his generation" by Politico, Michael Morell...

Franklin was exceptional as a scientist, statesman, business man and author.Author: Tom Thomas, John T. Jr. MorseISBN-10: 1453825312ISBN-13: 9781453825310Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2010Pages: 366Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.76d

The first fully realized portrait of Abraham Lincoln's ambitious and controversial early political career written by the "gifted young historian" (Richard Norton Smith) and author of Founding Rivals. Chris DeRose, the "gifted young historian" (Richard Norton Smith) who penned one of The Washington Post's...

In this "story of hope--an affirmation of the promise, the potential, and the reality of the American Dream," (Nancy Pelosi), the first Muslim to be elected to Congress speaks out about what divides Americans--and what can bring us together. As a Black, Latino, and...

Levi Johnston--best known as Bristol Palin's baby daddy and Sarah Palin's favorite whipping boy--sets out to clear his name and, with any luck, end his run as Alaska's most hated man. Promising hockey player and Governor Sarah Palin's almost son-in-law, Levi Johnston was eighteen...

From the cold of Valley Forge in the American Revolution, to the burning temperatures of the deserts of the Middle East, the Army of the United States of America has defended freedom, pushed back tyranny, and helped make the world a safer place. Now,...

As the creative force behind the award-winning satire news program "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart has become known as "the most trusted man in America." The road to success was not always smooth. Learn how a young man overcame anti-Semitic bullying at an early...

A 16 year old girl is taken away from her mother's dying bed at the hospital by four armed Iranian government agents. She is arrested and held captive in Iran's most feared prison, Evin. This begins her agonizing journey through life. As a political...

Robert Cohen is a Motivational Speaker and writer of a book of poetry inspired by life experiences. Cohen is a native of Savannah Georgia and grew up in the Chatham County School system. He received a undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Sociology with a...

Author: Harold W. GeiselISBN-10: 1450001319ISBN-13: 9781450001311Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/28/2009Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d

This is the fascinating autobiography of Ernst Toller. Ernst Toller (1893 - 1939) was a German left-wing playwright, best known for his expressionist plays. He also famously served for six days in 1919 as the President of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, later being...

The story of Chuck Panici, four times mayor of Chicago Heights, Illinois. An account of his rise to power and prominence, his denunciation by criminal elements within his own administration, his trial on trumped-up corruption charges and of the wrongs committed by the Justice...

This wonderful collection of writings by Benjamin Franklin, and as the humorous and insightful Richard Saunders, includes essays on morals, economics, happiness, wealth, politics and more as well as letters to and from friends and family. It is the second of two volumes following...