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August Bebel (1840-1913) was one of the towering figures of late nineteenth century European socialism and the leading figure of the German labour movement from the 1860s until his death in 1913. Born into a modest family, and a half-orphan from the age...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781525593970Author David W PetersFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

The life and politics of an American Jewish activist who preached radical and violent means to Jewish survivalMeir Kahane came of age amid the radical politics of the counterculture, becoming a militant voice of protest against Jewish liberalism. Kahane...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385471275Author Pierre SalingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

'In the Ring' deals with impossibly devious plots and characters - ambitious presidents and prime ministers from all corners of the world, some determined to hold onto power at any cost; a British government often with a misplaced sense of its own role...

Rick Kuhn's Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism is the definitive study of the life and work of this renowned economist, activist, and intellectual. As a young man, Grossman joined the socialist movement and participated in Jewish workers'...

Praise for H. Paul Jeffers Diamond Jim Brady: Prince of the Gilded Age "One of the most entertaining historical business narratives in recent memory. The story of this symbol of America's Gilded Age is filled with such gusto and vigor that even...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142181256Author James CarvilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 297g

Maud Gonne has long been viewed merely as a contemporary of more prominent literary, political and legal figures who played a role in Irish politics of the early twentieth century. While Eva Gore-Booth has been the subject of recent critical attention,...

Horatio Bottomley and the Far Right Before Fascism examines Bottomley's life and politics, and what made him one of the great figures of Edwardian life.During the first World War, his magazine John Bull sold two million copies a week. Bottomley addressed...

After the Party is the explosive story of the power struggles dominating South African politics and a crucial analysis of the ANC's record in power. Andrew Feinstein, a former ANC member of parliament, uncovers a web of corruption to rival Watergate,...

More than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), came to symbolize the ideology of black revolution. This autobiography-which was first published in 1969,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586423681Author Shannon A. MullenFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth Press

In Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin: The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina, Paul Gregory sheds light on how the world's first socialist state went terribly wrong and why it was likely to veer off course through the story of two of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812977134Author Elisabeth BumillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Arthur Horner (1894-1968) was a miners' leader from the 1926 general strike to his retirement as general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers in 1959. During his life he played a crucial role in the fight for a national mineworkers union, and...

Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought present critical examinations of the work of major political philosphers and social theorists, assessing both their initial contribution and continuing relevance to politics and society. Each volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594038693Author David HorowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USAWeight(grams) 609g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455585663Author Michael MorellFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Noted conservative historian Lee Edwards, who knew Bill Buckley for more than 40 years, delivers a much-needed intellectual biography of the man who has been called "the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century."In...

In his newest book, Daniel J. Mahoney offers refreshing historical antidotes to the displays of despotism in today's political arena."A brilliantly written and researched tribute to the pantheon of classically trained and thinking men of action." -Victor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904794271Author Sir Alan BeithFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Northumbria University PressPublisher McNidder & Grace

Leopold Kerney was one of the most influential diplomats of twentieth-century Irish history. This book presents the first comprehensive biography of Kerney's career in its entirety from his recruitment to the diplomatic service to his time in France,...

Hilton Cheong-Leen was a legend in Hong Kong's history. It is no coincidence that his 34 years of public service witnessed the city's historic transformation from a regional entrepot to an international financial centre. He was a key player in that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595089215Author Arthur D KahnFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 776gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 154mm * 34mm

Originally published in 1970, this is the story of Haiti under the rule of Dr Francois Duvalier. Bernard Diederich lived in Haiti for fourteen years and had personal experience of the early Duvalier days and the period of Maloire's rule. His work exposes...

The first full-scale biography of one of the most important--and enigmatic--leaders in Israeli history This riveting biography is the first to provide a satisfactory answer to the question, Who was Menachem Begin? Based on wide-ranging research among...

Since his murder 50 years ago in Bolivia, Ernesto "Che" Guevara has become a universally known revolutionary icon and political figure whose image is among the most recognizable in the world. This dramatic and extensively researched book breathes new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791444245Author J. Brooks BousonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

A concise biography of one of the most iconic revolutionaries of all time.Book InformationISBN 9780750918473Author Andrew SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 110gDimensions(mm)...

This is the inside story of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), from its beginnings in 1964 to the signing of the Oslo agreement in 1993. For over three decades, the main goal of the PLO was to achieve a just peace in the Arab-Israeli...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501199233Author Walter StahrFormat HardbackPage Count 848Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 953gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994560391Author Mike O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Cilento PublishingPublisher Cilento PublishingWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Stacey Dash didn't have the ideal American childhood. Growing up in the South Bronx, her friends were the hustlers, hookers, and gang members who struggled in the face of futility, who sold drugs instead of living on food stamps, who settled matters with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061234415Author George TenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 971gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of the Communist experience, came to an end in most of Europe with the death of Stalin in 1953. However, in one country - Albania - Stalinism survived virtually unscathed until 1990. The regime that the Albanian...

Released for the first time 16 years after his death, this startling autobiography by one of the so-called "three tramps" from the John F. Kennedy assassination reveals the details of Chauncey Marvin Holt's many claims. Much mystery and suspicion still...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781414333083Author Mosab Hassan YousefFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Tyndale EntertainmentPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804138611Author Timothy F. GeithnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

This collection of biographical essays brings to life a diverse and colourful cavalcade of British revolutionaries from the first part of the 20th century. The cast includes pioneering women Communists, doughty trade union leaders and dusty apparatchiks,...