Biography & Autobiography - Political

Was Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens really a "racist" Dixiecrat who believed that slavery was the "cornerstone" of the Confederacy, as pro-North writers assert? Was he actually guilty of "treason" against the U.S., an "anarchist" who should have been hanged for leading the...

National Bestseller Bill Morneau's experience as Canada's finance minister crystalized his vision for the country's potential for growth and prosperity. Where To from Here looks backward with coolness and candor and forward with a fresh vision of all that Canada can -- and must...

In 2007, the Pontine Marshes, are very much part of the Italian national landscape. A traveller who takes a Eurostar train from Rome to Naples will pass through the marshes, which are a marshland only in name (Agro Pontino in Italian). It is hard...

A former firearms executive pulls back the curtain on America's multibillion-dollar gun industry, exposing how it fostered extremism and racism, radicalizing the nation and bringing cultural division to a boiling point. As an avid hunter, outdoorsman, and conservationist-all things that the firearms industry was...

A 2022 Economist Best Book of the Year. The definitive account of the distinguished economist's formative years. Few twentieth-century figures have been lionized and vilified in such equal measure as Friedrich Hayek--economist, social theorist, leader of the Austrian school of economics, and champion of...

My Cattle Look Thin is a story about a farm in Africa. In 2000, David Wilding-Davies travelled with his young family from Canada to Zimbabwe to start a new life farming coffee. On their farm, Ashanti Coffee Estate, they learnt not just how to...

In this spiritual, moving autobiography, Wilma Mankiller, former Chief of the Cherokee Nation and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, tells of her own history while also honoring and recounting the history of the Cherokees. Mankiller's life unfolds against the backdrop of...

'Action Replay' is the remarkable life-story of Jeffrey Hamm. From being a nominal member of the pre-War British Union of Fascists, events soon propelled him forward to become Oswald Mosley's leading exponent in the post-War world - and the subject of at least five...

George Soros is a man with billions at his disposal and one of the most powerful networks in the world, whose motto is: "If I spend enough, I can make it right." But what is "right," according to Soros? George Soros's past as a...

Kamil Idris, a man proud of his nomad ancestry, survived child labouring in darkened factories, boyhood journeys to Cairo balanced on the top of trains, hazardous treks to Europe in his teens, capture and death threats from piratical Nile fishermen who thought he was...

In this 3rd book of his three-volume memoir, Barry W. Lynn recounts twenty-five years working against the top leaders of the Religious Right on issues including school prayer, prayer in public places, public religious displays, creationism, the Faith-Based Initiative, the Ten Commandments, and death...

In this collection of firsthand accounts by those who knew Cesar Chavez best, a portrait of an uncommonly complex man, both driven and focused, yet humble, empathic and exceedingly principled, emerges. The reader gains an understanding of the yoke Chavez chose to place upon...

This book follows the memories of Miroslav (Mirek) Kolias and his family from 1945 Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and immigration through Austria into the United States. His life recalls living under Nazi and Soviet regimes, including the imprisonment of his mother and father for political dissension....

Here is Nelson Mandela the statesman, the prisoner, the father, sometimes the joker, and occasionally the disciplinarian. Mandela is shown in snapshot, in the memories of old friends like George Bizos, in the words of inspiring legends like Muhammed Ali, leading the Defiance Campaign...

IF YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW OREGON'S POLITICAL LANDSCAPE, YOU MIGHT BE WRONG.From our nation's forebears such as Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, to the Bible, Americans have long heard some version of the old adage that the government we elect is the government we...

'Mr Maimane, good evening to you and, with the greatest of respect, who are you?' This is how journalist Jeremy Maggs began his television interview with Mmusi Maimane in 2011 when he was unveiled as the Democratic Alliance's mayoral candidate for Johannesburg. Since then,...

From one of the country's most distinguished journalists, a revisionist and riveting look at the American politician whom history has judged a loser, yet who played a key part in the greatest social movement of the 20th century. "Riveting. . . . A superbly...

Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll and 1st Earl of Ilay, lived a long and very active life as soldier, lawyer, politician, patron and businessman. History remembers him on the one-hand as courageous, good-natured, learned and accomplished - and, on the other, as 'a...

'This is an excellent portrayal of the Chris I knew. Not one word of exaggeration, so large was Chris. His contribution to our freedom is inestimable.' - Mavuso Msimang, ANC veteran and former member of the military high command of uMkhonto we Sizwe Chris...

Ambassador to a Small World is a highly personal portrait of Chad from the vantage point of Christopher Goldthwait, the longest-serving U.S. ambassador to N'Djamena. The book comprises his perceptive reflections on the country and its people. It touches on U.S. foreign policy, foreign...

*Includes pictures*Includes quotes and contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading"Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day." - MussoliniIt's easy to forget how young Italy was when Benito Mussolini...

ELON MUSKDriven by idealism and the desire to be actively involved in the progression of humankind, Elon Musk has been dubbed a "thrillionaire" by The New York Times; a tech entrepreneur using his wealth to turn science fiction into science fact.Musk wants to save...

Michael Madigan rose from the Chicago machine to hold unprecedented power as Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. In his thirty-six years wielding the gavel, Madigan outlasted governors, passed or blocked legislation at will, and outmaneuvered virtually every attempt to limit his reach....

"I love freedom and I will long for the freedom of the soul and the dignity of being a human being for the rest of my life. I'm not the first nor am I the last to suffer or even to sacrifice a life...

A leading member of the British Union of Fascists, and later the first leader of the National Front, this account of A.K. Chesterton's career succeeds as a biography, as well as a significant contribution to the history of British fascism and to the scholarly...

Kelly Kimball, Trish Whitcomb, Andrew Frank, and Barry Fadem met as political consultants, each passionate about the power and potential of democracy throughout the world. A trip to Eastern Europe in 1990 was supposed to be a chance to experience the culture they'd only...

The literature on Boris Yeltsin is vast. Memoirs have been produced not only by politicians - first-hand participants in the events, Yeltsin himself penned three volumes of recollections - but also assistants, press secretaries, political analysts, journalists, MPs, retired members of Gorbachev's Politburo, public...

John Suthers' memoir offers the reader his personal story with an insightful account of a public service career that balances what is right and what is necessary.Born out of wedlock and adopted as an infant, he lost his adoptive parents at a young age....

After the housing crash of 2008, people were broke with very few opportunities available.Except for one.A decade earlier, California passed the Compassionate Care Act, allowing residents to grow and cultivate marijuana plants for medicinal purposes. Inspired by the election of Barack Obama, who stated...

"Lying flat on the ambassador's floor in Liberia, bullets shattered my understanding of life, compelling me to rethink the meaning of what I had seen over and over again, so many people suppressed across all cultures in which I had lived. People dominated by...

The Hawks of Peace. Notes of the Russian Ambassador is a unique analytical edition where Russian Deputy Premier Dmitry Rogozin shares his notes on personalities and events that shaped the history of post-Communist Russia, believing that without those it would be impossible to understand...

So who really spearheaded India's Freedom Struggle? Millions of ordinary people-farmers, labourers, homemakers, forest produce gatherers, artisans and others-stood up to the British. People who never went on to be ministers, governors, presidents, or hold other high public office. They had this in common:...

In August 1914, thirteen-year-old Amy was trapped on the Belgian seacoast as war was declared with Germany, alone with her younger brothers. British, resilient and feisty, she got back to occupied Brussels and began her war diaries. Amy knew Nurse Cavell and Ada Bodart,...

After the housing crash of 2008, people were broke with very few opportunities available.Except for one.A decade earlier, California passed the Compassionate Care Act, allowing residents to grow and cultivate marijuana plants for medicinal purposes. Inspired by the election of Barack Obama, who stated...

Senate Document 111-6. Memorial Addresses and Other Tributes: Held in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Together with Memorial Services in Honor of Edward M. Kennedy, Late a Senator from Massachusetts. includes remarks delivered by prominent members of both Houses...

It is easy to tell the story when you are the hero. Everyone is comfortable playing their highlight reel. But what is the value in just seeing the good parts? What do we learn when people only share the successes they have had? In...

Alcibiades (ca. 450 BC-ca. 404 BC) was the charismatic and controversial Athenian general and politician who promoted the Peloponnesian war against rival Sparta, who subsequently inspired Athens's failed Sicilian Expedition, and who later allied himself with two of Athens's biggest enemies: Sparta and Persia....

Advise and Dissent is the personal odyssey of James Abourezk, from his coming of age as the son of Lebanese immigrants in South Dakota, through his hardscrabble days as a farmhand, bartender, bouncer, and cook, to his entrance into and voluntary exit from the...

It Takes a Woman retraces the early life of Agyeman‐Rawlings who rose to prominence as the First Lady of the Republic of Ghana (1982-2000). She redefined the privilege of serving a nation, and sought every platform to champion the causes of underserved citizenry and...

A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Thomas Jefferson This volume opens soon after the start of the second session of the Eighth Congress and ends a few days after the session closes. During the period, Jefferson receives twice as many...

At the heart of a nation's identity lies the moment it breaks free from its chains. For Kenya, this pivotal moment came in 1963, setting a course that would be both celebrated and challenged. Amidst this backdrop, we follow Salimo, a man whose life...

Through her life story, rising Republican star Senator Katie Britt shares some candid advice for how to overcome personal challenges, appreciate blessed moments, make our lives more fulfilling, and keep an unshakeable faith in God, family and our country. With grit and grace, Katie...

Guyana's Cheddi Jagan (1918-1997) is arguably the most controversial political leader in the history of the English-speaking Caribbean. He was the first politician of Indian ancestry to lead his country, and was the only major leader in the Region who not only adopted Marxism,...

A clear-eyed exploration of the career of Leon Trotsky, the tragic hero who "dreamed of justice and then wreaked havoc," by a leading expert on human rights and the former Soviet Union Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an insightful study of the inner life of David Ben-Gurion, the Zionist leader responsible for the creation of the state of Israel "The most intimate yet unflinching portrait to date. . . . Shapira may be the last...

South Africa's past quarter century has been shaped by the decisions and reach of one of the oldest political alliances in southern Africa, that between the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party.In this memoir, Rob Davies, one of the government's most...

Author: Tom SegevISBN-10: 1665205776ISBN-13: 9781665205771Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/19/2019Format: CDWeight: 1.05lbs

Brings the trailblazing career of a Saskatchewan icon, Sylvia Fedoruk, to life Award-winning author Merl Massie brings to the page the life and career of Sylvia Fedoruk (1927-2012), which encompassed some of the most ground-breaking scientific, athletic and public transformations of the twentieth century....

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Austin CraigISBN-10: 1497598656ISBN-13: 9781497598652Publisher: Createspace Independent...

Karl Marx - Life and Times of the Communism Founder is a biography of Karl Heinrich Marx the most influential revolutionary communist and socialist thinker to arise during the 19th century. As both a scholar and political activist, Marx is, perhaps, best known for...