Political

Lee Kuan Yew, first Prime Minister of Singapore, is a figure whose international stature far exceeds that of the tiny island over which he presided for thirty years. Lee is the principal architect of Singapore's political stability and its international...

David Bruce was the last of a kind - a wealthy American, country squire, spymaster and diplomat - whose friends ranged from Ernest Hemingway to Averill Harriman. This biography describes his military career, his two marriages and his diplomatic service...

With more than 35 years experience of jihadist activism, Abu Mus'ab al-Suri remains the foremost theoretician in the global jihadist movement today, despite his capture in Pakistan in late 2005. After having participated in the founding of Al-Qaeda in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789464901351Author United LibraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint United LibraryPublisher United LibraryWeight(grams) 113g

Malaysia s longest-serving and most outspoken prime minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamad has been politically active for more than 60 years. As a young doctor he agitated for independence from the British and promoted the rights of the Malays, and his long...

As the 1990s place greater demands on the UN, this inspiring biography shows how Hammarskjold perfected the active but quiet diplomacy that proved successful in a series of seemingly hopeless situations, from the Suez Crisis to Indochina, and how he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909026315Author Chanie RosenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint RedwordsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 115g

By November of 1963, the white police state of South Africa had managed to capture nearly all of the underground leaders of the antiapartheid movement-including Nelson Mandela-and had put them on trial on charges that carried the death penalty. Among the...

Adios Muchachos is a candid insider's account of the leftist Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. During the 1970s, Sergio Ramirez led prominent intellectuals, priests, and business leaders to support the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN),...

A wide-ranging political biography of diplomat, Nobel prize winner, and civil rights leader Ralph Bunche. A legendary diplomat, scholar, and civil rights leader, Ralph Bunche was one of the most prominent Black Americans of the twentieth century. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470281697Author Stanley MeislerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Elected MP for Londonderry in 1955 as the second-youngest member of the House, Robin Chichester-Clark was at the forefront of Northern Irish politics for almost 20 years during one of the most turbulent periods in its history. A son and grandson of...

"One of the nation's most prominent civil rights leaders" (Washington Post), a New York Times bestselling author, community organizer, investigative journalist, Ivy League professor, and former head of the NAACP, Ben Jealous draws from a life lived on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112105Author Alexander StilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 214mm *...

Stuart Eizenstat was at Jimmy Carter's side from his political rise in Georgia through four years in the White House, where he served as Chief Domestic Policy Adviser. He was directly involved in all domestic and economic decisions as well as in many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389874Author Deborah WyrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners

Veteran White House reporter April Ryan thought she had seen everything in her two decades as a White House correspondent. And then came the Trump administration. In Under Fire, Ryan takes us inside the confusion and chaos of the Trump White House to...

A "moving and lucidly written memoir" (The Wall Street Journal) of the late Senator John McCain from one of his closest and most trusted confidants, friends, and political advisors.More so than almost anyone outside of McCain's immediate family, Mark...

Bernie Sanders is one of the most influential figures of our time, a politician who inspires fervent love and, even among his enemies, a measure of grudging respect-yet we know comparatively little about this famously private left-wing firebrand. Now,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375759673Author Mike StantonFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

No one can forget the scalding images of defiance and bravery that appeared on our television screens in 1989. Teeming masses of students made history in Tiananmen Square, uniting their voices in protest of China's Communist regime. Impassioned young...

No one can forget the scalding images of defiance and bravery that appeared on our television screens in 1989. Teeming masses of students made history in Tiananmen Square, uniting their voices in protest of China's Communist regime. Impassioned young...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A must read for serious leaders at every level." -General Barry R. McCaffrey (Ret.) The FBI's former head of counterintelligence reveals the Bureau's field-tested playbook for unlocking individual and organizational...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438464626Author Konstantin Ivanovich GlobachevFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New...

Subcommander Marcos made his debut on the world stage on January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect. At dawn, from a town-hall balcony he announced that the Zapatista Army of National Liberation had seized several towns...

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...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474483261Author M Hakan YavuzFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

This book traces Oliver Tambo's role as a leader of the legal ANC through the Defiance Campaign, the Congress of the People and the Treason Trial, and his evolution from militant 'Africanism' towards acceptance of the idea of the ANC as open to people of...

C. Douglas Dillon - heir to a vast investment banking fortune, and one of the richest men in America during his political career - was a Republican who served in a Democratic administration and became one of the greatest modern treasury secretaries. He...

In a critical and little-known chapter of early American history, a fearless young Kentucky lawyer threw open the doors of Congress during the nation's formative years and prevented dissolution of the infant American republic.The only freshman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416559856Author Robert TimbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint ibooksPublisher ibooksWeight(grams) 342gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 15mm

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...

Richard L. Harris includes in this updated edition of Death of a Revolutionary new revelations about Che's revolutionary legacy and discusses the renewed interest in his revolutionary ideas stimulated by the election of leftist governments throughout...

In this book, Senator Bernie Sanders explains where he comes from. He describes in detail how, after cutting his teeth in the Civil Rights movement, Sanders helped build an extraordinary grassroots political movement in Vermont, making it possible for...

In 1960s Sicily, the Mafia were everywhere - and never seen. In the small town of Cinisi their power was unspoken, and absolute: 'it's in the air that you breathe' as the locals used to say. One man however, dared to speak out. Like many Sicilians,...

Born in Martinique, Frantz Fanon (1925-61) trained as a psychiatrist in Lyon before taking up a post in colonial Algeria. He had already experienced racism as a volunteer in the Free French Army, in which he saw combat at the end of the Second World War...