Biography & Autobiography - Political

A harrowing account of life in Italy in the year leading up to World War II, available in the US for the first time. In 1939 it was not a foregone conclusion that Mussolini would enter World War II on the side of Hitler....

There is no necessary relationship between fame and power, and great influence is often wielded in willful obscurity. So it was with the irascible, indomitable Eugene Fubini. A physics prodigy who fled Italy when the fascists came to power, his searing intelligence and relentless...

In This Is How We Survive: Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st Century, Mai'a Williams shares her experiences working in conflict zones and with liberatory resistance communities as a journalist, human rights worker, and midwife in Palestine, Egypt, Chiapas, Berlin, and the...

A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies--songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr--Joe Hill. It is a journey into the Wobbly culture that made Hill and the capitalist culture that killed him. Many...

The Internationally Acclaimed Biography of One of History's Monumental Figures Gandhi: A Life The first biography of this important figure in over twenty years, Gandhi: A Life rescues the man from the myth, revealing the transformation of an ordinary, timid young man into a...

As Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the early 1980s, David Stockman was a chief architect of the Reagan Revolution -- a bold plan to cut taxes and reduce the scope and cost of government. The Triumph of Politics was Stockman's...

In this national bestseller, the former two-term governor of Michigan--a state at the epicenter of the economic storms devastating middle-class lives throughout the US--offers a candid portrait of her tenure and the lessons learned, and points the way toward a new future. Jennifer Granholm...

Ken Thompson served as Sarasota's city manager from 1950 to 1988, making him the longest-serving manager in United States history. During these years, Sarasota experienced a population explosion and an unprecedented modernization of city services. The city moved from a sleepy little town to...

Gracchus Babeuf has long been recognized as an important precursor of the revolutionary socialist tradition.Author: Ian BirchallISBN-10: 1608466051ISBN-13: 9781608466054Publisher: Haymarket BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2016Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d

Published in cooperation with The National First Ladies Library This is the first full-length biography of Ida Saxton McKinley (1847- 1907), the wife of William McKinley, president of the United States from 1897 to his assassination in 1901. Long demeaned by history because she...

Homage to Catalonia is political journalist and novelist George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War...Author: George OrwellISBN-10: 1604443499ISBN-13: 9781604443493Publisher: Indoeuropeanpublishing.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/11/2011Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d

In June 1973, Judge Robert Bork was plucked from a quiet life of academia at Yale University and planted in the tumultuous soil of constitutional crisis by a Nixon administration barreling toward collapse. From the ousting of Vice President Spiro Agnew to the discharge...

Author: Kathleen BarryISBN-10: 1587210096ISBN-13: 9781587210099Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2000Pages: 452Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 8.24h x 5.08w x 1.17d

James Lilley's life and family have been entwined with China's fate since his father moved to the country to work for Standard Oil in 1916. Lilley spent much of his childhood in China and after a Yale professor took him aside and suggested a...

After Jeri Laber earned a Master's degree in Russian studies at Columbia University, she became a part-time writer and editor and a full-time wife and mother. Then one day in 1973 she read an article about torture that altered her life and subsequently the...

The first biography of Helena Sheehan, Irish-American Marxist feminist activist Why would an American girl-child, born into a good, Irish-Catholic family in the thick of the McCarthy era - a girl who, when she came of age, entered a convent - morph into an...

Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point reluctantly and graduated in the middle of his class. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Grant was appointed by the governor to command an unruly volunteer regiment,...

For many of those who are even familiar with his name, George Whitefield is thought of as a preacher, a man connected with the Great Awakening in the 1700s. While this is true, it is only part of the story. As a student at...

Bobby Sands was twenty seven years old when he died. He spent almost nine years of his life in prison because of his activities as a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). When he died on 5 May 1981, on the sixty-sixth day...

As one of the most complex, charismatic and controversial figures of our times, Robert Kennedy occupies a remarkable and paradoxical place in the American imagination. On the right he has been idolized by Rudy Giuliani and memorialized by Attorney General John Ashcroft, who renamed...

Richard Pettigrew was a United States Senator during the Gilded Age; a time when the captains of industry gained unprecedented power. His recollections of public service span decades.Running on an anti-corruption platform and representing South Dakota, Pettigrew was appalled as the wealthy owners of...

Rodney's immensely creative and original use of Marxism was both a challenge to radical understandings of development and colonialisation but also faithful to a certain framework of analysisin the period he lived.Author: Leo ZeiligISBN-10: 1642595810ISBN-13: 9781642595819Publisher: Haymarket BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/05/2022Pages: 254Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 8.90h...

Thomas Earlie is a dedicated European and former senior official of the European Union with over 40 years of service both at the European Parliament and European Commission. He has travelled extensively and has a world experience. He received many international distinctions including the...

Refuge Must Be Given details the evolution of Eleanor Roosevelt from someone who harbored negative impressions of Jews to become a leading Gentile champion of Israel in the United States. The book explores, for the first time, Roosevelt's partnership with the Quaker leader Clarence...

John J. Casey was a beloved hero to countless American workers during the late 19th and early 20th century. Truly a titan of his time, he was a stalwart champion of the oppressed, a loyal American patriot and most importantly, an extraordinary human being....

Governor Lurleen Wallace of Alabama and Evita Per n, First Lady of Argentina were women in their time but were not women of their time.Born in the same era, both First Ladys emerged as charismatic leaders-the trajectory of their high profile achievements paralleling in...

"Sincere, intent, focused and always readable. This] book gets to a truth and an understanding." --Steve Braunias, Newsroom Michelle Duff delves into Ardern's beginnings in small-town New Zealand, discovering a nose-ringed teen fighting for equality and her own identity in a devout Mormon family....

One mother's fight to support her son and change a broken system In his early twenties, Mindy Greiling's son, Jim, was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder after experiencing delusions that demanded he kill his mother. At the time, and for more than a decade after,...

GEORGE WASHINGTON This book covers the topic of George Washington, and serves as a biography of his incredible life and accomplishments. Inside, you will discover how America's first President came to be, and just how much of an impact he had on the development...

After reading a letter from his mother, Febb Burn, Harry T. Burn cast the deciding vote to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting suffrage rights to millions of American women. Born and raised in McMinn County, he served in Tennessee government...

"This collection of essays demonstrates vividly how and why the life and writings of Kartini spark different meanings to different people across different continents and times for a wide range of reasons. Truly engaging and enlightening."--Professor Dr Ariel Heryanto, Herb Feith Professor for the...

This book is not only about my career as a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service, but about all the facts regarding how someone born into the lowest financial class in our country could navigate around and through the great white sharks...

As Wisconsin governor from 1971 to 1977, Patrick J. Lucey pursued an ambitious progressive agenda, tempered by the concerns of a fiscal conservative and a pragmatic realist. He was known for bridging partisan divides, building coalitions, and keeping politics civil. His legacy, which included...

"I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn't think I could do."--David Paterson A title that hits you between the eyes is second only to a Governor put in office by...

Dean Acheson was one of the most influential Secretaries of State in U.S. history, presiding over American foreign policy during a pivotal era--the decade after World War II when the American Century slipped into high gear. During his vastly influential career, Acheson spearheaded the...

Speeches by the pioneer U.S. socialist agitator and labor leader, jailed for opposing Washington's imperialist aims in World War I. Debs speaks out on capitalism and socialism, anti-immigrant chauvinism, how anti-Black racism weakens the labor movement, Rockefeller's massacre of striking miners at Ludlow, Colorado,...

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu was the founder
 and leader of the Legion of St. Michael the
 Archangel, otherwise known as the Iron
Guard, in Romania between 1927 and 1938. 
While many of the revolutionary nationalist 
movements of the period are long forgotten, Codreanu's movement continues to...

This classic biography carefully traces Bukharin's rise to and fall from power, focusing particularly on the development of his theories and programmatic ideas during the critical period between Lenin's death in 1924 and the ascendancy of Stalin in 1929.Author: Stephen F. CohenISBN-10: 0195026977ISBN-13: 9780195026979Publisher:...

The final legacy of the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Labyrinth of Solitude Itinerary records the evolution of the political ideas of Octavio Paz, the great Mexican writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. It is an intellectual autobiography, in...

"A portrait of political campaigning that is more like what we hope than what we fear . . . a stout defense--indeed, the best I have read--of the Obama years." --David Gergen, The New York Times Book Review NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER David Axelrod...

Few leaders in history have been as mythologized as Michael Collins. Before his death at 31, he had fought in the Easter Rising, organized the IRA and out-spied British intelligence, negotiated the Anglo-Irish Treaty, and run the first independent government in Ireland. Peter Hart's...

Combining firsthand scholarship and material drawn from the Jefferson Papers, Willard Sterne Randall calls on his skills as an investigative journalist to challenge long-held assumptions about the reasoning, motives, and works of this sage, philosopher, politician, and romantic. Exploring both Jefferson's interior and public...

Twelve years ago, Richard Yancey answered a blind ad in the newspaper offering a salary higher than what he'd made over the three previous years combined. It turned out that the job was for the Internal Revenue Service -- the most hated and feared...

KAMALA HARRISKamala Harris' life encapsulates a fascinating journey, one that represents the country's growing diversity and multiculturalism, which began in earnest during the 1960s. She was born to a family for whom social justice and engagement with political causes were never seen as fringe...

It is the early 1980s, and Don MacRobert finds himself in Soweto during the height of apartheid in South Africa and its abuse of human rights. It is here where he sees first-hand how systems of oppression have forced the majority of the nation's...

This book contains the biography of Mayor Catalino Gabot Hermosilla, Sr., a Filipino politician, who was the mayor of Ormoc, Leyte, Philippines during World War II from 1941 to 1943 during the occupation of Ormoc by the Imperial Japanese military. His term of office...

Josip Broz (1892 - 1980), commonly known as Tito, was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman, serving in various roles from 1943 until his death in 1980. During World War II, he was the leader of the Partisans, often regarded as the most effective...

The notorious Parr family manipulated local politics in South Texas for decades. Archie Parr, his son George, and his grandson Archer relied on violence and corruption to deliver the votes that propelled their chosen candidates to office. The influence of the Parr political machine...

Sean J. Savage is Professor of Political Science at Saint Mary's College and the author of JFK, LBJ, and the Democratic Party, also published by SUNY Press.Author: Sean J. SavageISBN-10: 1438457030ISBN-13: 9781438457031Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New YoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2015Pages: 362Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 9.40h...

FEARLESS: How a poor Virginia seamstress took on Jim Crow, beat the poll tax and changed her city forever is about Evelyn T. Butts. A poor seamstress who became a forceful and courageous voting rights champion and won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case...