Biography & Autobiography - Political

"One of the nation's most prominent civil rights leaders" (Washington Post), a New York Times bestselling author, community organizer, investigative journalist, Ivy League professor, and former head of the NAACP, Ben Jealous draws from a life lived on America's racial fault line to deliver...

A radical reinterpretation of Adam Smith that challenges economists, moral philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians to rethink him--and why he matters Adam Smith has long been recognized as the father of modern economics. More recently, scholars have emphasized his standing as a moral...

In a career spanning 41 years in the Irish diplomatic service, Ambassador Dal Denham has lived among nine very different societies, spanning three continents. With stops in France, Zambia, the USA, Lithuania, Belarus, Finland, and finally the Holy See, Dal has a few choice...

Donald J. Trump is the most vilified American president ever, derided on more front covers than any other. He's been portrayed as the anti-Christ, Adolf Hitler, The Joker, a Ku Klux Klansman, King Kong, a terrorist, a madman, a psychopath, a narcissist, a buffoon...

*Includes pictures and art depicting Joan of Arc and important people, places, and events in her life. *Discusses her life, career, trial, and death. "King of England, if you do not do these things, I am the commander of the military; and in whatever...

A revelatory biography of Australia's longest-serving prime minister. Robert Menzies claimed the prime ministership in 1939 and led the nation during the early years of the war, but resigned two years later when he lost the confidence of his party. His political career seemed...

Frank Colantonio's story stands as potent testimony to a life dedicated to family, community, and social justice. Like countless other Italians after World War II, Colantonio, born in rural Molise, emigrated to Canada. Putting down roots in the rapidly expanding metropolis of Toronto, he...

David Livingstone (1813-1873) was one of the supreme representatives of the British Empire. Yet his career suffered many set-backs during his own life-time, and since his death his reputation has swung between extremes of adulation and dismissal. Were his epic journeys through Africa purely...

This book discusses the life and political activity of French Communist Louis-Auguste Blanqui and the problems of his political current.Author: Doug Enaa GreeneISBN-10: 1608464725ISBN-13: 9781608464722Publisher: Haymarket BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2017Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.20w x 0.40d

This book chronicles some of the most influential people who call San Francisco ""Home"" as told by Dr. John Kerner, a longtime champion of women's health and the war on cancer. Folks we call ""heroes"" are not just limited to the military. A former...

Author and Photographer Marques Vickers examines a propaganda story introduced by Russian President Vladimir Putin crediting himself with single-handedly defusing a hostile East German crowd intent on ransacking the Dresden KGB offices in 1989. Vickers' book "Vladimir Putin and Dresden, Germany: The Genesis of...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the #1 bestselling author of 'Indian' in the Cabinet, a groundbreaking and accessible roadmap to advancing true reconciliation across Canada. There is one question Canadians have asked Jody Wilson-Raybould more than any other: What can I do to help advance reconciliation?...

"Swede Hazlett was one of the people to whom I 'opened up.'"--Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower and E. E. ("Swede") Hazlett grew up together in Abilene, Kansas, and remained close, corresponding regularly from 1941 until Hazlett's death in 1958. The letters collected in...

John Carlos, the man behind the most iconic moment of the Black Power movement, tells his story.Author: Dave Zirin, John Wesley CarlosISBN-10: 1642597562ISBN-13: 9781642597561Publisher: Haymarket BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2021Pages: 226Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d

In 1976, Peter Mann left a gloomy England for the last corner of the British empire: Hong Kong. As a police inspector, he commanded a sub-unit and led a district vice squad in Kowloon, before joining the colonial government's Administrative Service and working in...

The John Edwards-Rielle Hunter affair made headlines for years. "One of the biggest political scandals of all time," "a fall from grace," "a modern-day tragedy"--it's a story that has been reported, distorted, and spun over and over again by the media, by political aides,...

"My Mother listened to the gospel every Sunday morning and every Sunday afternoon. On Sunday afternoon, Mom's radio was tuned to the Barrie radio station. It was the late 1940s. At 3:00 pm, a program was on the air from Edmonton, Alberta. Ernest Manning...

Killer Angel: A Short Biography Of Planned Parenthood's Founder, Margaret SangerAuthor: George GrantISBN-10: 1630263656ISBN-13: 9781630263652Publisher: Cumberland House PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/05/2001Pages: 128Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d

The 1973 Yom Kippur Middle-East War occurred when the Nixon White House was in chaos because of the collapsing Watergate cover-up and operating on the belief that the Soviets had supplied nuclear weapons to Egypt to be fired at Israel. High level Soviet dissidents...

Brought together first as enemies in the Anglo-Boer War, and later as allies in the First World War, the remarkable, and often touching, friendship between Winston Churchill and Jan Smuts is a rich study in contrasts. In youth they occupied very different worlds: Churchill,...

Author: Charles E. KingISBN-10: 1436378680ISBN-13: 9781436378680Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/10/2008Pages: 108Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Once There Was a Family...A blend of happiness, tragedy, and pathos. Follow the footsteps of a Chinese diplomat and his Mexican family through their trials and tribulations, stretching from the early 1930s through the 1950s. From the sleepy town of Chiapas in Southern Mexico...

The world is currently facing a display of superpowers between The United State and Russia, the two Presidents from these countries are displaying their country's capability and how they are able transforming their countries.Donald Trump the 45th President of the United States inaugurated on...

Joe Farrell, Joe Farley, and Lawrence Knorr have traveled across the eastern USA to the graves of over 200 Founding Fathers (and Mothers) responsible for the birth of the United States of America. Included in this first volume are biographies and grave information for...

A bold call to action for those who would lead well and those who would be well led."Performance is better than promise" has long been the motto of Ernest F. "Fritz" Hollings, a former Governor of South Carolina and six-term U.S. Senator whose distinguished...

Frank McKenna was one of Canada's most highly respicted politicians, and this compelling biography is a must-read for anyone who wants to unravel the mystery of this intriguing man. Why would a news-making criminal lawyer, a popular premier whose party swept every seat in...

The various historical and political works of Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, though composed at intervals, and while the author was in exile or captivity, have all one great object mainly in view, the constitutional reorganization of France. His theory of national reformation is based...

The various historical and political works of Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, though composed at intervals, and while the author was in exile or captivity, have all one great object mainly in view, the constitutional reorganization of France. His theory of national reformation is based...

This is the first comprehensive biography of Molotov and reflects the range of sources that have become available to historians since the fall of the USSR. It is a commentary on Soviet history. Molotov played his part in revolution, Civil War, Lenin's Russia, Stalin's...

Williams, an Alabama liberal committed to civil rights long before such a position was expedient in the South, became the director of the National Youth Administration where he hired blacks and supported labor unions, public housing, public health, and public education. This biography contributes...

As governor of Rhode Island, J. Howard McGrath oversaw the passage of social legislation aimed at improving the lives of his constituents during the dark days of World War II. As a Rhode Island senator he served as the Democratic National Committee Chairman during...

Benjamin Tallmadge narrates his time spent as a military officer during the American Revolutionary War, detailing his roles as both commander and intelligence gatherer. Renowned for his successes during the American Revolution, Benjamin Tallmadge commences these memoirs with a brief family history. After this...

Among the pioneers of radical thought, there are few names more important than that of Emma Goldman (1869-1940), who made her life a study in the struggle against the authoritarian state, the privileged and upper class bourgeois forces that array against the common man...

President Erdogan's Biography tells the story of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who is one of the most powerful politicians in Turkish history. Erdogan rapidly climbed the political ladder, serving as mayor of Istanbul from March 1994 to November 1998 until he was jailed...

This is the first comprehensive biography of Molotov and reflects the range of sources that have become available to historians since the fall of the USSR. It is a commentary on Soviet history. Molotov played his part in revolution, Civil War, Lenin's Russia, Stalin's...

Everyone should know the life story of Nelson Mandela, one of the greatest leaders of all time, the first black president of South Africa, the most famous African, and a major world statesman. His inspiring life receives a fresh retelling in this new biography...

George Rublee (1868-1957), was an eastern establishment lawyer and corporate liberal who made a significant contribution to economic reform legislation on the state and national levels during the progressive era. He was also involved in a number of important international events from 1917 to...

William Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States is undoubtedly the greatest American enigma of our age -- a dark horse that captured the White House, fell from grace and was resurrected as an elder statesman whose popularity rises and falls based...

This first English translation of Hsieh Fucheng's diaries portrays a progressive, thoughtful, and deeply perceptive senior official and his encounter with the West, during the undermining of Imperial China by the Western powers and the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in 1912.Author: Na NaISBN-10:...

Mary P. Follett (1868-1933) brought new dimensions to the theory and practice of management and was one of America's preeminent thinkers about democracy and social organization. The ideas Follett developed in the early twentieth century continue even today to challenge thinking about business and...

Dean Acheson is perhaps best remembered as President Harry Truman's powerful secretary of state. Yet he also played a major role in politics and foreign affairs after his tenure in the Truman administration. This engrossing book, the first to chronicle Acheson's postsecretarial career, paints...

David Obey has in his nearly forty years in the U.S. House of Representatives worked to bring economic and social justice to America's working families. In 2007 he assumed the chair of the Appropriations Committee and is positioned to pursue his priority concerns for...

No one else in the political arena inspires as wide a range of passionate feelings as Hillary Rodham Clinton. Cold or competent, overachiever or pioneer, too radical or too moderate, she continues to overturn the assumptions we make about her. In Thirty Ways of...

A stunning and news-making biography detailing how America's Mayor, once beloved around the world, became a tragic figure, and the driving force behind Donald Trump's biggest scandals.Rudy Giuliani was the legendary prosecutor of Mafia bosses, corrupt politicians, and white-collar criminals. As mayor of New...

Author: Ho Che AndersonISBN-10: 1560976225ISBN-13: 9781560976226Publisher: Fantagraphics BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/17/2005Pages: 228Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.82lbsSize: 11.22h x 7.30w x 0.64dReview Citation(s): Quill & Quire 04/01/2005 pg. 41School Library Journal 09/01/2005 pg. 241Publishers Weekly 02/14/2005 pg. 56SLJ's Best Books 12/01/2005 pg. 50

"Grisham's book shows considerably more humility and self-reflection than that of any other Trump administration veteran I've read (and I've pretty much read them all)."--Laura Miller, Slate"Salacious and score-settling."--The Guardian"Part giddy travelogue, part belated apologia, part petty payback, all personal-therapy session."--New York TimesNow in...

Author: Maire ComerfordISBN-10: 1843518198ISBN-13: 9781843518198Publisher: Lilliput PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/25/2021Pages: 220Format: Paperback

Originally published in the Soviet Union in 1950, this Stalinist-era political book gives a unique glimpse of the man and the era. It includes a variety of photographs of Stalin at various ages, beginning at age 15.Author: Marx -. Engels -. Lenin InstituteISBN-10: 1410204316ISBN-13:...

First Lady of the United States and America's "Queen of Hearts," Dolley Madison fashioned an unofficial role for herself in the new administration of the United States, helping to answer the nation's need for ceremony and leaving footprints for centuries of presidential wives to...

From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan W. Jordan--author of Brothers, Rivals, Victors--comes the intimate true story of President Franklin Roosevelt's inner circle of military leadership, the team of rivals who shaped World War II and America."Superbly written, well researched, and highly interesting."--Jean Edward...