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Six-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright--one of the world's most admired and tireless public servants--reflects on the final stages of one's career, and working productively into your later decades in...

Born in Fallsburg, Kentucky, in a tenant house insulated with newspapers, Paul Patton had a humble upbringing that held few clues about his future as one of the most prominent politicians in the history of the state. From the coal mines of eastern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471793069Author Jesse LarnerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 497g

This is the first and only biography of Jeane Kirkpatrick, who became an iconic figure in the 1980s as Ronald Reagan's UN ambassador and the most forceful presence in the administration, outside of the President himself, in shaping the Reagan Doctrine...

Before September 11, 2001 we Americans did not think much about freedom or democracy in the Middle East. U.S. policy toward the region aimed to assure a reliable flow of oil, to encourage peace between the Arabs and Israel, and above all, during the...

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the most important and authoritative source on Nehru's life, work and thought. Given the literary abilities and singular position of Jawaharlal Nehru, these volumes can be considered a primer to politics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770417380Author Edward BroadbentFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint ECW PressPublisher ECW Press

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 each other...

The first biography of John Dickinson published in fifty years, The Cost of Liberty offers a sorely needed reassessment of a great patriot and misunderstood Founding Father. Countering the caricature of Dickinson that has emerged from such popular...

In Grenada in 1968, Dr Hilda Bynoe was appointed as one of the very first local governors in the Caribbean in the years just before formal independence, and the first woman, and black woman, to be appointed a governor anywhere in the Commonwealth. All...

The Next Founders brings to light the stories of seven remarkable people, six Arabs and an Iranian. Five are men; two, women. Four are Sunnis, two are Shiites, and the seventh is mixed. Their lives revolve around a sense of mission, and while the angles...

The Political Life of Bella Abzug, 1920-1976: Political Passions, Women's Rights, and Congressional Battles, by Alan H. Levy, marks the first full biography of Bella Abzug. Abzug was one of woman in politics in mid- and late-twentieth-century America...

The Prince of the City is at once a fascinating character study of one of America's most charismatic public figures, a history of New York over the last forty years, and a classic inquiry into the issue of how cities thrive or die. Siegel's story...

"Fighting the Mafia" is his dramatic tale of witness and survival, of his effort to expose Mafia infiltration of the highest levels of Italy's national politics, and of the movement he helped build-in the schools and churches, and at the ballot box - to...

Russ Feingold is a rarity in American politics. A staunch civil libertarian, he was the only member of the U.S. Senate who voted against the ill-conceived USA Patriot Act that was rushed through Congress in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks...

In this first post-9/11 account of the career of the man who established himself as "America's Mayor" in the dark days after America was attacked, Fred Siegel shows how Rudy Giuliani's successes in New York--restoring law and order, cutting taxes and...

In l990, a car bomb in Oakland almost killed radical Earth First! leader Judi Bari and her passenger, a co-leader and onetime lover, Darryl Cherney. The FBI accused the pair of transporting the explosive device knowingly as part of a violent campaign of...

"Fighting the Mafia" is Leoluca Orlando's dramatic tale of witness and survival, of his effort to expose Mafia infiltration of the highest levels of Italy's national politics, and of the movement he helped build-in the schools and churches, and at the...

The man who would be President, Al Gore, claims he invented the internet. He also claims that he and Tipper inspired Love Story. And he says that after his sister died of lung cancer he promised to fight smoking "until his last breath," although he...

Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus is a gripping account of the developmental dynamics involved in the collapse of Soviet socialism. Fusing a narrative of human agency to his critical discussion of structural forces, Georgi M. Derluguian...

Robert Dallek, a luminary in the field of political biography--author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Nixon and Kissinger and the New York Times bestselling biography of John F. Kennedy--offers here a look at the life of William Dodd, an American diplomat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982175771Author Dan MorainFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225219Author Koigi Wa WamwereFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 704g

This critical edition documents Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture. With an unprecedented and comprehensive 60,000-word introduction that places the speeches, letters, poetry and images printed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791432020Author Masaki MoriFormat PaperbackPage Count 261Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

In 1909, while still in South Africa, Gandhi publicly decried the caste system for its inequalities. Shortly after his return to India though, he spoke of the generally beneficial aspects of caste. Gandhi's writings on caste reflect contradictory views...

Jawarharlal Nehru played a crucial part in shaping Indian nationalism and in the creation of modern India. His life encompassed the high-noon of the British Raj, but also its collapse and the creation of a Commonwealth of independent states. As India's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791432044Author Pauline E. HeadFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Lord Ashley (later the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury), the 'Poor Man's Earl', is widely remembered as a leading aristocratic philanthropist whose concern for suffering and the oppressed victims of Victorian 'progress' saw him champion a range of social,...

Throughout his life, Musmanno provided a voice for the people amid the interplay of politics and the arrogance of power. A crowd pleaser, he had no trepidation in saying what he thought. The author of sixteen books, two of which became movies, numerous...

Published in association with the Japan Society and containing 57 essays, this ninth volume in the series continues to celebrate the life and work of the men and women, both British and Japanese, who over time played an interesting and significant role...

Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy is the first full account of Ward's life and work. Drawing on unseen archival sources, as well as oral interviews, it excavates the worlds and words of his anarchist thought, illuminating his methods, and...

The Master of Seventh Avenue is the definitive biography of David Dubinsky (1892-1982), one of the most controversial and influential labor leaders in 20th-century America. A "character" in the truest sense of the word, Dubinsky was both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476756776Author Claire McCaskillFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307949639Author Robert M. GatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501178405Author Hillary Rodham ClintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 522g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446676502Author Martin Luther King JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Warner BooksPublisher Little, Brown & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541768741Author Ryan BusseFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781797162232Author Cassidy HutchinsonImprint Simon & Schuster AudioPublisher Simon & Schuster Audio

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487592080Author Charles M JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 472g