Biography & Autobiography - Political

THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER A Times Book of the Year; A Telegraph Book of the Year; A Daily Mail Book of the Year; A Waterstones Book of the Year 'Required reading for anyone who has an interest in who governs...

Relapse into Bondage is the political memoir of Alexandru Cretzianu, a key Romanian diplomat during the interwar period and World War II. Cretzianu faithfully presents himself as pro-Western, pro-French, pro-British, and pro-League of Nations. He demonstrates that Romania did not freely join the Axis,...

The Romanian historian Nicolae Iorga played a critical role in the history of his country for more than fifty years until his tragic death in 1940. The author of more than 1,200 books and 20,000 articles, Iorga was one of the most prolific scholars...

Chanakya was an adviser to the Mauryan Emperor Chandragupta, and was the chief architect of his rise to power. Kautilya and Vishnugupta, the names, with whom the ancient Indian political treatise, called the 'Arthashastra' is identified as its authors, were believed to be, in...

A Short Life Of Abraham Lincoln Condensed From Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History is a condensed biography of the sixteenth President of the United States. The book focuses on Lincoln's early life, political rise, and leadership during pivotal moments in American history....

"Daniel Webster" written by means of "HENRY CABOT LODGE" emerges as an intriguing compilation authored by the esteemed statesman himself. Within its pages, Daniel Webster endeavors to encapsulate his biography and political musings into a novel, cheap draft, extending the attain of his thoughts...

Franklin Before The Privy Council, White Hall Chapel, London, 1774: On Behalf Of The Province Of Massachusetts, To Advocate The Removal Of Hutchinson And Oliver has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of...

Baer's biography of the former Czechoslovak foreign minister Vladimír Clementis (1902-1952) is the first historical study on the Communist politician who was executed with Rudolf Slánský and other top Communist Party members after the show trial of 1952. Born in Tisovec, Central Slovakia, Clementis...

This study, the first of its kind in English, presents an overview of Slovak intellectual history in the 19th century, including the debates surrounding the memorandum of 1861, the political stagnation of the 1880s, characterized by an increasingly Russophile orientation, and, finally, Czechoslovakism as...

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...

More than two decades after the cold war ended elsewhere, it continues undiminished on the Korean Peninsula. The division of the Korean nation into competing North and South Korean states and the destructive war that followed constitute one of the great, and still unresolved,...

In the history and folklore of Australia's Commonwealth Public Service, the idea of the 'Seven Dwarfs' has been remarkably persistent. Originally a witty epithet applied to a powerful group of senior public servants, the term has come to represent the professionalisation of Australian government...

Coral Mary Bell AO, who died in 2012, was one of the world's foremost academic experts on international relations, crisis management and alliance diplomacy. This collection of essays by more than a dozen of her friends and colleagues is intended to honour her life...

Tom Clarke was the architect of Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising. This old Fenian was surrounded by a younger generation of republicans whom he galvanized towards one of the most important events in Irish history. However, relatively little is known of this apparently quiet and...

If only John Charnley had avoided politics his life would have been far easier. But in the 1930s young men like Charnley considered standing on the sidelines an act of cowardice. Hunger stalked the back streets of Britain and the slow drift towards another...

Patron of Florence Nightingale, high society and the Arts, Sidney Herbert was hailed in his own times as a statesman, administrative reformer and co-founder of modern Liberalism. Strangely neglected since his death, this biography brilliantly recaptures, through its subject, the many paradoxes of Victorian...

This book is an account of the life and early career of John Edward Redmond (1856-1918). Breaking off at the watershed year of 1900 when Redmond became chairman of the Irish Party, it is the first part of a projected two-volume biography of this...

St Helena is a small volcanic outcrop in the South Atlantic Ocean, settled in 1659. Together with two associated and remote colonies, at Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha, it is a British dependency under a Governor appointed by The Queen. The book is...

A powerful celebration of brilliant speeches by women throughout the ages, from Boudica to Greta Thunberg. Looking at lists of the greatest speeches of all time, you might think that powerful oratory is the preserve of men. But the truth is very different--countless brave...

Title: Rasputin and the Russian RevolutionAuthor: Catherine RadziwillDescription: In "Rasputin and the Russian Revolution," Catherine Radziwill, a prolific writer and a witness to the tumultuous events of her time, delivers an enthralling and deeply insightful account of one of the most enigmatic figures in...

Judith Wright (1915-2000) remains a giant figure within Australian art, culture, and politics. Her 1946 collection of poetry, The Moving Image, revolutionized Australian poetry. She helped to establish the modern Australian environmental movement and was a key player in early campaigns for Aboriginal land...

It has been said that nothing describes a man better than his own sense of humour. Few men in public life display the wit of William Hague, now Baron Hague of Richmond. His keenly developed sense of humour and penetrating wit is a delightful...

After more than 30,000 people died in his realm, the highest number throughout the land, and with a virulent virus still raging King Covidius Cuomo decided now was the right time to bring to you his immense wisdom gleaned from years of successful "leadership."...

This book is about a shocking revelation of a sovereign country- Uganda, which is under abominable siege, by a foreign occupation army from Rwanda, with its diabolic criminal gang, who entered Uganda as refugees, including the so-called General Yoweri Museveni. It was alleged that...

As a firebrand attorney and political agitator, James Otis Jr. helped to shape colonial resistance in the decades leading up to the American Revolution, establishing individual rights and "no taxation without representation" as cornerstones of the patriot cause. After his violent coffeehouse altercation and...

A thematic analysis of the career of Bronterre O'Brien, one of the most influential leaders of Chartism, this book relates his activities--and the Chartist movement--to broader themes in the history of Britain, Europe, and America during the nineteenth century. O'Brien (1804-64) came to be...

From the award-winning biographer and historian, a brilliant dual biography of two of the most fascinating twentieth-century political activists Hailed as "remarkable" and "a must read" by Choice, A Saving Remnant is prizewinning historian and biographer Martin Duberman's deeply revealing dual portrait that explores...

This is the first and only biography of Jeane Kirkpatrick, who became an iconic figure in the 1980s as Ronald Reagan's UN ambassador and the most forceful presence in the administration, outside of the President himself, in shaping the Reagan Doctrine and fighting the...

Rasputin the Rascal Monk (1917) is a work of historical nonfiction by Anglo-French writer William Le Queux. Published at the height of Le Queux's career as a leading author of popular thrillers, Rasputin the Rascal Monk indulges in the paranoid atmosphere of the First...

Author: Phillip W. JohnsonISBN-10: 149317178XISBN-13: 9781493171781Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/30/2014Pages: 156Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d

As a Charleston city councilwoman and in so many of her other roles, Mrs. Hilda Jefferson dedicated her life to serving and sacrifice. She touched many lives during her time, including that of author Chuck Trioani. Now he shares his memories of her and...

In "Commoner Sense", author Patrick J. Fornari, a no-nonsense average American working person, examines the United States' unique past, present, and possible future. Built on more than a decade of research condensed into an overview of the working person's role in America, Fornari's perspective...

Author: Uche Odika JuniorISBN-10: 1483678245ISBN-13: 9781483678245Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/22/2013Pages: 238Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Author: Alasdair ThompsonISBN-10: 1483668428ISBN-13: 9781483668420Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/09/2013Pages: 338Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

From The Virginia Plantation to The National Capitol or The First and Only Negro Representative in the Congress from the Old Dominion John Mercer LangstonAuthor: John Mercer LangstonISBN-10: 1466475439ISBN-13: 9781466475434Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2011Pages: 558Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.13d

Written with uncommon candor 'Defining Pearl' ignites emotions making this a compelling, deeply moving memoir. More than a decade in the making this powerful publication presents how since childhood Pearl Matibe lived a prosperous lifestyle. Her previously unpublished personal journal shows her unique vantage...

This book, with the intriguing title, A Right to be Wrong, by Celestine Omehia, a lawyer/politician, is about the Supreme Court decision in Amaechi v. Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) [2007] 18 NWLR (Pt 1065) 105. The decision must go down in history as...

In this elegant family history, journalist Thai Jones traces the past century of American radical politics through the extraordinary exploits of his own family. Born in the late 1970s to fugitive leaders of the Weather Underground and grandson of Communists, spiritual pacifists, and civil...

We are very excited to bring you the only cartoon book of the 44th President of these so-called United States of America, Barack Obama! In this wonderful book, you can see the President as Abraham Lincoln, General George Patton, Uncle Sam, Commander-in-Chief, Superman, and...

Author: Daniel E. ButtonISBN-10: 1441530193ISBN-13: 9781441530196Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/15/2009Pages: 124Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Author: Clayton Jay Collins and Donella WilliamsISBN-10: 1441523383ISBN-13: 9781441523389Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/2009Pages: 324Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d

Author: Stephen WorobISBN-10: 1441507639ISBN-13: 9781441507631Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/28/2009Pages: 174Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Author: Benjamin ScottISBN-10: 1441507752ISBN-13: 9781441507754Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/21/2009Pages: 226Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

""A Diplomat's Helpmate"" is a historical non-fiction book that chronicles the life and accomplishments of Rose F. Foote, the wife of the first U.S. Minister and Envoy Extraordinary to Korea. Written by Mary Viola Tingley Lawrence and published in 1918, the book provides a...

Author: Mandell CreightonISBN-10: 1437113915ISBN-13: 9781437113914Publisher: Kessinger PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2008Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d

A Lithuanian Village is a book written by Leon Kobrin and published in 1920. The book is a detailed and vivid portrayal of life in a small village in Lithuania during the early 20th century. Kobrin, who was born in Lithuania, draws on his...

The Memoirs of Count Apponyi is an autobiographical work written by Albert Apponyi, a Hungarian politician and diplomat who lived from 1846 to 1933. The book provides a detailed account of Apponyi's life, from his childhood and education to his political career and diplomatic...

Black Herman's Secrets of Magic, Mystery, and Legerdemain is a fascinating book that delves into the world of magic and illusion. Written by the legendary magician Black Herman, this book is a comprehensive guide to the art of magic and the secrets behind some...

The Fall of the Mogul Empire, published in 1912, is a historical account of the decline and eventual collapse of the Mughal Empire in India. Written by Sidney James Owen, a British historian and colonial administrator, the book provides a detailed analysis of the...

The Political Life of William Wildman, Viscount Barrington is a historical biography written by Shute Barrington in 1815. It chronicles the life and political career of William Barrington, a prominent British politician and member of the House of Lords during the 18th century. The...