Biography & Autobiography - Political

A New York Times Bestseller A Philadelphia Inquirer Best Book of the Year A Los Angeles Times Most Important Book of the Year Hailed as "authoritative" and "essential," and based on the work of two dozen reporters and twenty hours of interviews with Trump,...

The daughter of Robert F. Kennedy shares personal remembrances of her father and through conversations with politicians, media personalities, celebrities and leaders, explores the influence that he continues to have on the issues at the heart of America's identity. Robert F. Kennedy staunchly advocated...

Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art is the biography of an African American icon and a demonstration of historian Lindsey R. Swindall's knack for thorough, detailed research and reflection.Author: Lindsey R. SwindallISBN-10: 1442207949ISBN-13: 9781442207943Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2015Pages: 212Format: PaperbackWeight:...

A New York Times Bestselling AuthorIn November 2014, the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for their traditional Thanksgiving celebration; it was the one constant in their hectic, scrutinized, and over-scheduled lives. But this year felt different from all those that had come before. Joe...

The first full-scale biography of John Hay since 1934: From secretary to Abraham Lincoln to secretary of state for Theodore Roosevelt, Hay was an essential American figure for more than half a century.John Taliaferro's brilliant biography captures the extraordinary life of Hay, one of...

Meet Jerry Parr. In 1981, he was the agent standing next to Ronald Reagan when John Hinckley, Jr., stepped out of the crowd, intent on killing the president. In the Secret Service is an adrenaline-filled ride through the life of the agent who saved...

Emma Goldman is one of the most celebrated activists and philosophers of the early 20th century, admired and reviled for her anarchist ideas and vociferous support of free speech and personal liberation. A polarizing figure in life, Emma Goldman was among the first advocates...

Why They Stay explores the reasoning and motivation of wives who stay after their politician-husbands cheat. Hillary Clinton couldn't have known in 1998 how her husband's high-profile philandering would play out. Would he be rehabilitated in the public eye? She couldn't be sure, but...

The Houndsditch murders of three City of London policemen in 1910 and the ensuing "Siege of Sidney Street", in which Latvian anarchists took on Winston Churchill and the British Army, have entered into East London folklore. But no-one ever accounted for the mysterious Peter...

I am not trying to tell the entire story of what happened in Sadr City, Baghdad during the surge of 2008: that will be saved for another day. Rather, I am only giving the average American a glimpse of what happened with one unit...

This is the story of George H. Mahon, a man who went to Congress in 1935, when the House Committee on Appropriations still allocated a small amount of money to buy military horses. Forty-four years later, when Mahon retired as Chairman of that same...

In this lively memoir, William B. Saxbe narrates his life's journey from his youth in a small Ohio town to his military career during World War II and Korea and through his career as a public servant in Ohio, in Washington, D.C., and overseas....

"I will show them there is at least one Mexican in the country who is not afraid of a Texas cowboy." Having drawn the line, teenager Elfego Baca backed up his words with his six guns. Nobody, but nobody, even Texans, would any longer...

Traces the life of Detroit's longest-serving mayor, discusses his approach to politics, and assesses the accomplishments of his administration.Author: Wilbur C. RichISBN-10: 0814320937ISBN-13: 9780814320938Publisher: Wayne State University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1998Pages: 298Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.33h x 6.32w x 0.95d

Writing with warmth and humor, Connie Schultz reveals the rigors, joys, and absolute madness of a new marriage at midlife and campaigning with her husband, Sherrod Brown, now the junior senator from Ohio. She describes the chain of events leading up to Sherrod's decision...

One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to...

This is a political biography of one of the 20th century's most emblematic left-wing figures - Salvador Allende, who was president of Chile until he was ousted by General Pinochet in a US-supported coup in 1973.Victor Figueroa Clark guides us through Allende's life and...

Dubbed 'the poster girl of Palestinian militancy', Leila Khaled's image flashed across the world after she hijacked a passenger jet in 1969. The picture of a young, determined looking woman with a checkered scarf, clutching an AK-47, was as era-defining as that of Che...

Now a major motion picture starring Angelina Jolie! The unforgettable story of two journalists who fell in love with their work and with each other, a portrait of a partnership built on the ideals of love, truth, and justice--and a critical look at the...

As President Biden so often tells us: "My dad had a saying..." Prudent life lessons--and some downright weird advice--from one Biden to another. Joseph R. Biden Sr. never held political office, but that didn't stop him from imparting a lifetime's worth of guidance to...

Barber B. Conable, Jr.--perhaps the most respected member of Congress of his era--kept a frank, insightful, revealing journal available now for the first time thanks to the efforts of editor Bill Kauffman in The Congressional Journal of Barber B. Conable, Jr., 1968-1984.The journal is...

What would you do if you were ACCIDENTALLY elected mayor of your hometown? This book is based on the hilarious true story, straight from the perspective of comedian Jeremy Nunes, of what happened when he accidentally got elected mayor of the small-town of Dawson,...

Winner of the 2021 Haitian Studies Association Book Prize​ Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne P駻alte is the first US scholarly examination of the politician and caco leader (guerrilla fighter) who fought against the US military occupation of Haiti. The occupation...

A gritty and honest memoir against a historical backdrop. At its core, it is a story about the good fight entwined with a coming of age narrative. Struggling to find her place in the world, Cleve Mesidor, a Gen Xer, chronicles her nomadic journey...

Andrei Kozyrev was foreign minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin from August 1991 to January 1996. During the August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev, he was present when tanks moved in to seize the Russian White House, where Boris Yeltsin famously stood...

Explore the Captivating Life of James MadisonJames Madison earned the title "Father of the Constitution." How did this man who was diminutive of stature with a weak constitution produce such an energetic document? Through more than 200 years, it stands like a silent sentinel...

In April 1967, a year before his run for president, Senator Robert F. Kennedy knelt in a crumbling shack in Mississippi trying to coax a response from a listless child. The toddler sat picking at dried rice and beans spilled over the dirt floor...

Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe: New Reflections brings together a fresh and diverse range of contributors to reconsider the life, ideas and legacy of Robert Sobukwe - teacher, thinker, Africanist and founder of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). For leading the anti-pass campaign of 1960, Sobukwe...

An engrossing account of the remarkable twentieth-century philosopher-sociologist who has been called the Catholic Nietzsche. John Raphael Staude examines Max Scheler's shifting political and philosophical allegiances and relates them to his highly unconventional private life and to the social and cultural confusion of pre-World...

In Scopena: A Memoir of Home, former U.S. representative and Louisiana governor Buddy Roemer shares with readers his early experiences growing up on his family's cotton plantation in Bossier Parish, Louisiana. Set upon thousands of acres of land, Scopena was not only a major...

Author: Carl Van DorenISBN-10: 1931541868ISBN-13: 9781931541862Publisher: Simon PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/11/2002Pages: 452Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.10d

Nicol Machiavelli's The Prince remains controversial in its electrifying frankness as a practical guide to power. Is it a how-to manual for dictators, or a subtle analysis of successful government? Introducing Machiavelli traces the colorful life of this paradoxical realist whose clear-sighted patriotism made...

Acclaimed author Sally Denton brings to life every dimension of the extraordinary Helen Gahagan Douglas in The Pink Lady, a compelling account of Douglas's incomparable life as stage star, politician, and public intellectual. A three-term congresswoman who ran for the U.S. Senate against Richard...

A National Bestseller - The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016 This unauthorized biography provides a rare look at the real Justin Trudeau, retracing his steps from his early days to the height of power.Having grown up in the shadow of his famous father,...

The New York Times bestseller about the historic dealings between Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill--"A superb tribute to the neglected art of compromise" (Daily News (New York)). Tip and the Gipper is an "entertaining and insightful" (The Wall Street Journal) history of a time...

A "candid, behind-the-scenes" (The Dallas Morning News) memoir from one of our most distinguished ambassadors who--in his career of service to the country--was sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy.Christopher Hill was on the front lines in the Balkans at...

As seen on 60 Minutes A New York Times bestselling, explosive memoir about the creation and implementation of the controversial enhanced interrogation techniques by the former Chief Operations Officer for the CIA's Center for Counterterrorism. Former Chief of the CIA's Center for Counterterrorism, Jose...

When Herman Cain speaks, people listen. When he debates, he wins.If you care about the future of America, you have heard of the down-to-earth political newcomer running for president, the straight-talking man of the people with blunt assessments of what America needs. Originally overlooked...

A former U.S. Intelligence analyst shines a fresh light on accused Soviet spy Alger Hiss, providing "a solid look at the specifics of the case as well as a useful overview of the ideological debate gripping America" (Kirkus Reviews). In 1948, former U.S. State...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the life and times of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, arguing she left behind the Kennedy family's most profound political legacy. While Joe Kennedy was grooming his sons for the White House and the Senate, his Stanford-educated daughter Eunice was tapping...

The centrepiece of this memoir by Sir Christopher Mallaby, former British Ambassador in Germany and France, is the unification of Germany in 1990, the culmination of years of work by Sir Christopher and his colleagues. He held different views from the Prime Minister, Margaret...

Dr. Calvin J. Spann shares memories of his full, exciting life, including stories of his service in World War II. Due to the rigid pattern of racial segregation prevailing in the United States at that time, 966 black military aviators were trained at an...

MICHAEL BERRY is the fascinating biography of the first Muslim attorney to practice law in the State of Michigan. Throughout his 50 years as an attorney in partnership with a diverse group of attorneys, who joined the firm on a handshake and stayed for...

Author: Erma HendersonISBN-10: 1418422908ISBN-13: 9781418422905Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/19/2004Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

A rare and powerful story of hope, love, survival, and the struggle to bring back alive a hostage in Iraq Micah Garen and Marie-H駘鈩e Carleton were journalists and filmmakers working in Iraq on a documentary about the looting of the country's legendary archaeological sites,...

Through exclusive archive access and interviews, Dmitri Volkogonov provides a reinterpretation of the life and ruthless career of Leon Trotksy, one of the most influential figures of the 20th century whose faith in the world socialist revolution remained undimmed to the end. This biography...

From the pen of her daughter comes the fascinating biography of a truly remarkable First Lady: Pat Nixon. From the beginning of her relationship with a young California lawyer that she later followed to the White House through the horrors of the Vietnam era...

Now in paperback, the extraordinary and sweeping memoir of one of the most revered families in America--the Buckleys. The Buckley name is synonymous with a unique brand of conservatism--marked by merciless reasoning, wit, good humor, and strong will. Self-made oil tycoon William F. Buckley,...

With all the pace and drama of a political thriller, Dirty Diplomacy is a riveting account of a young, fast-living ambassador's battle against a ruthless dictatorship in Central Asia and the craven political expediency in Washington and London that eventually cost him his job....

A study of the famous Canadian statesman and Prime Minister. This title is cited and recommended by Books for College Libraries and The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature.Author: William Buckingham, George W. RossISBN-10: 1410223817ISBN-13: 9781410223814Publisher: University Press of the PacificLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/15/2005Pages:...