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Tearing Down Walls: A Woman's Triumph is a brave and honest look back at the breakthroughs that have marked Mary Gardiner Jones' whole life. From breaking free of a forceful and domineering mother who saw only marriage in her daughter's future, dealing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410201560Author Oscar King DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

As the man himself might say, there's so much to write about! There's racist Trump, sexist Trump, bankrupt Trump, lying Trump, paranoid Trump, clueless Trump, conman Trump, bullying Trump, and more. Here, in one lovingly researched and slim volume, is...

Where else but in America could a Jewish kid from Kansas, son of self-made, entrepreneurial parents and a grandson of Russian and Eastern European immigrants, end up as a congressman, secretary of agriculture, and chief lobbyist for Hollywood? In...

For most first ladies, their years in the White House are their sole claim to fame. For one-Hillary Rodham Clinton - that tenure was just another step in a remarkable political career. Neither a ""hit job"" nor a facile tribute, Gil...

Ernest Gruening is perhaps best known for his vehement fight against U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, where he set himself apart by casting one of two votes against the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in 1964. However, as Robert Johnson shows in this...

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To truly understand the dynamics and magic of the Kennedy family, one must understand their passion for sailing and the sea. Many families sail together, but the Kennedys' relationship with Victura, the 25-foot sloop purchased in 1932, stands apart...

Ralph Miliband (1924-94) played a key role within the political and intellectual community of the Left, both in Britain and North America. This work provides debates and dilemmas of socialists from World War II until the collapse of communism.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470134009Author N.B. MillsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425242957Author Antonia FelixFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 348g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062420336Author Christopher AndersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307390448Author Ernesto Guevara LynchFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110880Author Thomas E. RicksFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062413604Author Amy ChozickFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684815609Author David GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MangoPublisher MangoWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541792Author Eugenio ColorniFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947951167Author Wilbur L CrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint City Point PressPublisher City Point PressWeight(grams) 721g

Chicago is a world-class city but it is also a city in crisis.   Crime is up, schools have repeatedly shut down due to conflict between City Hall and the powerful teachers’ union, and COVID-19 only deepened the entrenched poverty, institutional racism,...

In 1973, a radical choice that Jill Derby made while under pressure changed the trajectory of her career from a potential profession in academia to that of a lifelong political activist. When You Dare to Say Yes is a decades-spanning account of how a...

Nelson Mandela is known worldwide as a great moral and political leader, the first democratically elected South African president, the recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize, and a beacon of interracial goodwill. In Mandela, former foreign correspondent Bob...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621576457Author Gregory MayFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Regnery HistoryPublisher Regnery HistoryWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 160mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620876220Author Justin WintleFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 680g

Michelle Obama played a large and influential role in her husband's campaign, and is certain to do the same thing during his presidency. Michelle Obama: First Lady of Hope examines, for the first time, her astonishing career, from her undergraduate years...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566565141Author Yves ChevrierFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781553655930Author Harvey SawlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 311Imprint Greystone Books,CanadaPublisher Greystone Books,Canada

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476751474Author Hillary ClintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 726g

Tensions leading to World War I brewed for years, and were brought to a head by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. But who was the assassin? What was his plan? Not many people know the name of Gavrilo Princip. Tony Fabijancic peels back the mystery...

This definitive biography of the prominent labor leader Maida Springer focuses on her public life, especially her role in the formation of the AFL-CIO's African policy during the Cold War and African independence movements. But it also reveals the...

Assessing the legacy of Canada's twentieth prime ministerBook InformationISBN 9780773530959Author Lois HarderFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's University PressWeight(grams) 660g

Gwen Terasaki's Bridge to the Sun, an idealized memoir of her marriage in the 1930s and 1940s to a Japanese diplomat, Terasaki Hidenari, is still widely read as an inspiring tale of a "bridge" between two cultures that waged savage war against...

Drawing from his thousands of pages of notes written while serving as Chief of Staff to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, John Lawrence has written a narrative documenting his insider perspective from 2005 to 2010. These momentous years included furious...

Whitney M. Young, Jr., the charismatic executive director of the National Urban League from 1961 to 1971, bridged the worlds of race and power. The "inside man" of the black revolution, he served as interpreter between black America and the...

As Japan's pre-Pearl Harbor ambassador to the United States, Admiral Nomura Kichisaburo (1877-1964) played a significant role in a tense and turbulent period in Japanese-U.S. relations. Scholars tend to view his actions and missteps as ambassador as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553210750Author Benjamin FranklinFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams) 215g

Beloved by the immigrants and working people whose rights he has championed, twelve-term Congressman Luis Gutierrez is, among Latinos and along with Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the most recognized Hispanic public figure in America. Here...

Hubert Harrison was an immensely skilled writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist who, more than any other political leader of his era, combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness into a coherent political...

Over the course of a literary career that extended from the lingering Malthusian controversies of the late eighteenth century to the brink of the Reform Act of 1832, William Hazlitt produced a remarkable body of committed radical journalism. Against the...

The years 1774-1777 saw Fanny Burney's increasing occupation with her novel Evelina, which she finally completed and presented to the publisher Thomas Lowndes. Like her novel, the journals of this period reveal her artistic powers as she continues to...