Biography & Autobiography - Political

The Politics of Passion is the first comprehensive collection of the writing and art of Dr Norman Bethune. A Canadian medical pioneer and a communist, Bethune gained fame during the 1930s while serving in the Spanish Civil War and participating in China's struggle against...

2016 Ontario Historical Society Donald Grant Creighton Award -- WinnerA National Post Bestseller, The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016, 2016 Speaker's Book Award -- Shortlisted The first authorized biography of Bill Davis, the enigmatic Ontario premier who carried on a Tory dynasty, but...

This account of President Masaryk's life was taken from his own lips and set down in his own words by Karel Capek. The chapters were not told consecutively as they are given here; they have been built up from material gathered by Capek during...

Widely known as the "poor man's lawyer" in antebellum Boston, John Albion Andrew (1818-1867) was involved in nearly every cause and case that advanced social and racial justice in Boston in the years preceding the Civil War. Inspired by the legacies of John Quincy...

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - From the author of Catching the Wind comes the second volume of the definitive biography of Ted Kennedy and a history of modern American liberalism. "Magisterial . . . an intricate, astute study of political power...

Will Thorne's autobiography is a riveting account of his life as a social activist and labour leader in Britain. He recounts his early struggles as a factory worker, his involvement in the formation of the trade union movement, and his political career as a...

A remarkable memoir of an American's intimate engagement with the Congo, one throwing new light upon America's political challenges today. "I was fascinated both by his life-altering experience in the Congo and by his first-hand picture of what happens behind closed doors on Capitol...

What more could there be to know about FDR, given how exhaustively his life has been written about? As it happens, there is more and that focuses on Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the queen of her Washington social circle, later FDR's friend and love-and Eleanor's...

Few people today remember John Swainson. As a teenage soldier he lost both legs in a WWII landmine explosion. Back in the United States, following a meteoric political rise in the Michigan State Senate, Swainson was elected as Michigan's youngest governor since Stevens T....

Aaron Burr--Revolutionary War hero, third vice president of the United States and a controversial figure of the early republic--was tried and acquitted of treason charges in 1807, and thereafter departed for self-imposed exile in Europe, his political career in ruins. Adrift in Paris for...

The compelling true story of a man of conscience at the heart of the Third Reich. In the years when most Germans were abetting a policy of conquest and genocide, Helmuth James von Moltke, an aristocratic and devoutly Christian young lawyer drafted into the...

Robespierre was one of the most powerful and the most feared leaders of the French Revolution. John Hardman describes the career of this ruthless political manipulator, and in the process explores the dynamics of the French revolutionary movement and the ferocious and self-destructive rivalries...

"I operated under the theory that a good union doesn't have to be dull."--Moe Foner"Don't waste any time mourning--organize."--Joe HillMoe Foner, who died in January 2002, was a leading player in 1199/SEIU, New York's Health and Human Service Union, and a key strategist in...

This new biography of Stalin offers an accessible and up-to-date representation of one of the twentieth-century's defining figures, as well as new insights, analysis and illumination to deepen our understanding of his actions, intentions and the nature of the power that he wielded. Christopher...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Cassidy Hutchinson's desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history. Now, she provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where...

Now in paperback, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J Edgar Hoover deemed "Masterful...an enduring, formidable accomplishment, a monument to the power of biography [that] now becomes the definitive work"by The Washington Post (and everywhere else) "Revelatory...an acknowledgment of the complexities that made Hoover who...

The Helsinki Final Act of 1975 set in motion the legitimate, peaceful redrawing of national boundaries in many postcommunist countries--a triumph for pluralist democracy, the market economy, and personal freedom. Today, this policy serves as a diplomatic template for the proper handling of the...

This vintage book contains a detailed account of James G. Blaine's political career with a special focus on his foreign policy, written by Alice Sarah Tyler. James Gillespie Blaine (1830 - 1893) was an American statesman and Republican politician. He represented Maine in the...

Of all the many biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, none has presented the twenty-sixth president as he saw himself: as a man of letters. This fascinating account traces Roosevelt's lifelong engagement with books and discusses his writings from childhood journals to his final editorial, finished...

This is a new release of the original 1941 edition.Author: Kurt Krueger, Upton SinclairISBN-10: 1494084325ISBN-13: 9781494084325Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 322Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.67d

This in-depth biography of Italian intellectual Antonio Gramsci casts new light on his life and writing, emphasizing his unflagging spirit, even in the many years he spent in prison. One of the most influential political thinkers of the twentieth century, Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) has...

C. Douglas Dillon - heir to a vast investment banking fortune, and one of the richest men in America during his political career - was a Republican who served in a Democratic administration and became one of the greatest modern treasury secretaries. He believed...

A political biography that reveals new sides to Helen Keller Several decades after her death in 1968, Helen Keller remains one of the most widely recognized women of the twentieth century. But the fascinating story of her vivid political life--particularly her interest in radicalism...

"Excellent and absorbing.... Indispensable to any attempt to understand the Khmer Rouge." -William Shawcross New York Review of Books "A dramatic account of Pol Pot's rise to power in 1975 and his direction of Cambodia's autogenocide.... David Chandler has given us an absorbing and...

This author gives a "birds eye" view of William J. Clinton as he struggles to hold onto the most powerful office in American politics while accused of deception, betrayal, sexual misconduct and more.Author: Charles K. AkaISBN-10: 075968734XISBN-13: 9780759687349Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2002Pages: 128Format:...

The essays of this volume consider how acknowledgement of the fact of dependency changes our conceptions of law, political theory, and morality, as well as our very conceptions of self.Author: Eva Feder KittayISBN-10: 0742513637ISBN-13: 9780742513631Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/2003Pages: 392Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.11lbsSize:...

The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackEdward III ruled England for fifty years. He was a paragon of kingship in the eyes of his contemporaries, the perfect king in those of later generations. Venerated as...

This book contains the text of Charles Evans Hughes' moving tribute to Theodore Roosevelt, delivered at a memorial service held in Roosevelt's honor shortly after his death. Hughes, a prominent politician and jurist who served as chief justice of the Supreme Court, offers a...

Vladimir Lenin lies in a tomb in Moscow's Red Square. History has not been kind to this Russian leader, his teachings were reviled by modern mainstream politics. But in today's capitalist society, riven by class inequality and imperialist wars, perhaps it is worth returning...

The life stories of eight working-class militants railroaded to prison or the gallows for the 1886 Haymarket bombing in Chicago. Written from prison, these accounts present a living portrait of the labor movement of the time, as well as the lives and ideas of...