Biography & Autobiography - Political

He was the "Bad Boy of Philippine Cinema"-a rebel on and off the screen, a man whose name stirred both admiration and controversy. Yet behind the headlines and the fame was a restless spirit searching for meaning.Robin Padilla: Rebel with a Cause tells the...

This book returns to print a long-forgotten series of articles in defense of the Orange Order, a Protestant counterrevolutionary group in Ireland. In the autumn of 1835, as the Orange Order faced a parliamentary inquiry and the imminent prospect of being banned, an Old...

Entrepreneur. Congressman. Convicted Felon. Presidential Pardon Recipient. Chris Collins rose to the highest levels of business and politics--only to face a fall from grace that nearly destroyed him. As a successful entrepreneur and the first member of Congress to endorse Donald J. Trump for...

The Sword of Freedom has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.Author: Yossi CohenISBN-13: 9798228478237Publisher: HarperCollinsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/16/2025Format: CD

The son of a missionary and a Baptist minister, seventeen-year-old immigrant David George Ball was following his destiny to become a pastor. He had always dreamed of making a difference in people's lives. But when he met the then relatively unknown Martin Luther King...

Unlikely alliance between a former broadcast journalist and a wrongly convicted African American serving a life term in prison. Weaves outrageous examples of injustice with poignant, sometimes humorous, stories of amazing friendship and faith.After meeting Maurice Carter during a prison visitation, the author assembles...

An insider's account of life with Adolf Hitler - now back in print for the first time in 75 years! First published in 1938 "I Knew Hitler" is the missing link in the literary trail which traces the fortunes of Adolf Hitler from Linz...

The man who would be President, Al Gore, claims he invented the internet. He also claims that he and Tipper inspired Love Story. And he says that after his sister died of lung cancer he promised to fight smoking until his last breath, although...

Baroness Cox of Queensbury was appointed a Life Peer in 1982. A former deputy speaker of the House of Lords, she is a tireless advocate for international human rights. She visits the most forgotten people in the world, often in highly dangerous conditions, to...

David Livingstone was one of the supreme representatives of the British Empire whose reputation has swung between extremes of adulation and dismissal. This book is an account of Livingstone's life and his achievements.Author: Andrew C. RossISBN-10: 1852855657ISBN-13: 9781852855659Publisher: Continnuum-3PLLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2006Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize:...

The Pinochet Affair is the epic story of the events that surrounded the dramatic arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in London in October 1998. Beginning his narrative with the violent military coup that Pinochet led on September 11, 1973, Roger Burbach discusses what led...

On the first day of World War Two Jim begins a diary. An ardent eighteen-year-old pacifist, nothing will persuade him to fight. Seventy years later his daughter discovers his writing. After a month the entries cease until, two years later, he begins again. Now...

Read history in color!James Oglethorpe was a British aristocrat and philanthropist in the eighteenth century who pioneered prison reform in the United Kingdom before founding the state of Georgia as a classless society for poor people from England. He planned the town of Savannah...

Unavailable in any form for years, PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF A RADICAL, originally published in 1843, is a key document of British radicalism. For author Samuel Bamford, this compelling work was a direct attack on the intractable political forces of the British government,...

""The Vanished Pomps of Yesterday"" is a memoir by British diplomat Lord Frederic Hamilton, published in 1925. The book is a collection of Hamilton's personal reminiscences and anecdotes from his long and distinguished career as a diplomat. Hamilton served as a British envoy to...

Brave Men And Great Captains is a historical book written by R. Ernest Dupuy. The book provides a detailed account of some of the greatest military leaders in world history, including Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, and George Washington. The author explores...

The Life of Daniel Webster by Edward Everett is a comprehensive biography of one of America's most renowned orators and statesmen. The book chronicles Webster's life from his humble beginnings in New Hampshire to his rise as a prominent lawyer, congressman, and senator. Everett...

""An Address On The Life, Character And Services Of William Henry Seward"" is a book written by Charles Francis Adams that provides a comprehensive overview of the life, character, and services of William Henry Seward. Seward was an American politician and statesman who served...

In this powerful biography, Robert Isaac Wilberforce and Samuel Wilberforce tell the story of William Wilberforce. Wilberforce was a leading abolitionist and social reformer who fought to end the transatlantic slave trade.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is...

"I grew up learning from my family and the Khaksars about the role of Allama Mashriqi, Mahatma Gandhi, Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and other leaders in the freedom movement of the Indian sub-continent. And I have dedicated the last seventeen years to research on...

This "nimble" book provides a pithy, funny, almost schizophrenic examination of all the arguments that I can think of, pro and con, on the subject of Senator Barack Obama's suitability for the office of President. My promise to you is that no matter how...

NOTES FROM A PRISON: BANGLADESH by Dr. Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir is a profound chronicle of an epic struggle to obtain justice within a corrupt system. Unjustly imprisoned on false charges for 22 months from 2007 to 2008, Dr. Alamgir, the former Minister of Planning...

"Healing our bodies, returning to natural patterns of sleeping and eating and being in community and with the earth...whatever that looks like for you, may be the first steps towards sustainability and balance. For me it started with tapping into my own abundant energy...

Author: James CantlieISBN-10: 0898753546ISBN-13: 9780898753547Publisher: University Press of the PacificLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2001Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.10w x 0.59d

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire...

By the end of her first meeting with the late mayor Richard J. Daley, Jane Byrne had been questioned, berated, and told she might, one day, reach the House but probably not the Senate-and she had also reduced him to tears. That would be...

Embark on a poignant journey through the tumultuous landscape of apartheid-era South Africa and into democracy, where resilience, courage and the pursuit of knowledge shine through personal experiences. Follow the author's compelling tale of survival, strength and the enduring power of the human spirit...

This book is about Don Atkinson, an electrical engineer and political radical who combined his engineering skills and Marxism to lead a full and exciting life. He was involved with one of Australia's first electric car projects and became an advocate for solar and...

If you lost all of your liberties, how far would you go to gain freedom? In 1982, L. D. Anderson traveled in the Russian underground where he met and interviewed seven women ... a collective. This is their story: seven survivors and manipulators of...

Howard J. Wiarda is one of the leading global scholars of international relations, comparative politics, and foreign policy, and the author/editor of more than sixty books. Now in this highly personal and swashbuckling account, Professor Wiarda tells the stories that lie behind the research:...

Over the years I've always appeared to be a little out of step with the conventional wisdom coming from our political leadership. Starting in 1964 with the Johnson/Goldwater presidential campaign I joined the Republican Party. It wasn't long before I realized I was also...

Author: Ivan E. AntakISBN-10: 1834184142ISBN-13: 9781834184142Publisher: Tellwell TalentLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/03/2025Pages: 322Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d

Author: Josh ShapiroISBN-10: 0063463903ISBN-13: 9780063463905Publisher: HarperLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/2026Pages: 272Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winning former Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson tells our nation's torturous racial history through his own family's story, starting with his great-grandfather's freedom from slavery and threading his way to his own narrative and reaching today's Black Lives Matter movement, asking whether this...

Delve into the life and thoughts of one of America's most influential Founding Fathers with "Memoirs, Correspondence And Private Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Late President Of The United States, Volume 4." This volume offers a unique window into the personal and political world of...

Following the tumultuous and unexpected life of Zenaida Katzen, Simmonds' biography weaves disparate threads from Russia, China, Chile, France, and St. Kitts-Nevis into a vibrant tapestry revealing a surprising and exceptional woman. Stepping outside of the spinster-teacher archetype, Katzen's story is one of a...

If Frank McCourt had grown up in Depression-era Arkansas, he might write like Dale Bumpers, one of the most colorful, entertaining, and wise politicians in recent American history, Atticus Finch with a sense of humor. In The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town, Bumpers...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

The Conquest of New Mexico and California is a historical and personal narrative written by P. St. George Cooke in 1878. The book describes the conquest of the American Southwest by the United States Army in the mid-19th century, with a focus on the...

""The Final Outcome Of Hitler�������s Mad Dream"" by H. A. Wood is a non-fiction book that explores the events leading up to the end of World War II and the downfall of Nazi Germany. The book delves into the motivations and actions of Adolf...

Annals of the Turkish Empire Volume 1 is a historical text written by Mustafa Naima and first published in 1832. The book covers the period from 1591 to 1659 of the Christian era and provides a detailed account of the events that occurred during...

Explore the remarkable life and public service of Martin R. Delany, a pivotal figure in African American history. This biography, penned by Frank A. Rollin, chronicles Delany's extraordinary contributions as Sub-Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, and his service...

This book contains the memorial speeches delivered in honor of William B. Bate, a senator from Tennessee who passed away in 1905. The speeches offer beautiful eulogies of Bate's life, character and contributions as both a lawyer and a statesman.This work has been selected...

My great-great grandfather, a Hungarian nobleman, visited the Hapsburg Castle on many occasions. The Estate in western Hungary and it was about 150 kilometers to the north-west to Vienna. He joined the 1848 revolution and was killed as a member of the Hungarian patriarchy....

Author: Joe WenkeISBN-10: 098590027XISBN-13: 9780985900274Publisher: Trans Uber LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2014Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d

On the first day of his Senate confirmation hearings, John Ashcroft raised his right hand and vowed, "I swear to unhold the laws of the United States of America, so help me God."People who knew him intimately knew they could count on this.And so...

Ever the chronicler and teacher, Franklin wrote an autobiography, ostensibly for his illegitimate son William. Apart from hurried additions when he was in his eighties, his story halts at 1757. Tracing his footsteps centuries later, Franklin's most celebrated biographer completes the last twenty-five years...

From an acclaimed historian comes an authoritative and balanced biography of FDR, based on previously untapped sources No president looms larger in twentieth-century American history than Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and few life stories can match his for sheer drama. Following in the footsteps of...

Discover the Power of Faith-Driven Leadership in Today's WorldUnyielding Resolve: Life Lessons from Charlie Kirk's Rise and Influence offers an inspiring journey into the heart of enduring faith and principled leadership. This compelling narrative explores how steadfast belief can guide a young leader through...

Filippo Corridoni by Alceste de Ambris is a biography of Filippo Corridoni (AD 1887-1915), the charismatic, indefatigable Italian revolutionary syndicalist, and head of the Syndicalist Union of Milan."A magnificent agitator, a daring and expert leader of crowds," he was also an anti-militarist, but when...