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Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, "Samuel Adams was the man." With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the greatest campaign of civil resistance in American history. Stacy...

John "Iwan" Demjanjuk was at the center of one of history's most complex war crimes trials. But why did it take almost sixty years for the United States to bring him to justice as a Nazi collaborator? The answer lies in the annals of the Cold War, when...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "History matters to McCain, and for him America is and was about its promise. The book is his farewell address, a mixture of the personal and the political. 'I have loved my life,' he writes. 'All of it.' The Restless Wave is...

Nominated for the 2017 Bread & Roses Award for Radical PublishingIn June 2017 an earthquake shook the very foundations of British politics. With Labour widely predicted to suffer a crushing defeat in the general election, Jeremy Corbyn instead achieved a...

The biography of a politician who played a profound role in the history of the African National Congress, this account follows Kader Asmal from his beginnings as the son of a small-town shopkeeper in Natal through his exile in the UK and his rise to...

A moral examination of one of the first Jewish senators, confidante to Jefferson Davis, and champion of the cause of slavery Judah P. Benjamin (1811-1884) was a brilliant and successful lawyer in New Orleans, and one of the first Jewish members of the...

This audacious and illuminating memoir by Richard Baum, a senior China scholar and sometime policy advisor, reflects on forty years of learning about and interacting with the People's Republic of China, from the height of Maoism during the author's UC...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679781783Author Anthony SampsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 601gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Known around the world simply as Lula, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 to illiterate parents who migrated to industrializing Sao Paulo. He learned to read at ten years of age, left school at fourteen, became a skilled metalworker, rose to...

Nikki Haley is widely admired for her forthright manner ("With all due respect, I don't get confused"), her sensitive approach to tragic events, and her confident representation of America's interests as our Ambassador to the United Nations during times...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385720731Author Ana CastilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 143gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904491057Author Peter E. NewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint Freedom PressPublisher Freedom PressWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm *...

Drugs. Sex. Revolutionary violence. From its first pages, Susan Stern's memoir With the Weathermen provides a candid, first-hand look at the radical politics and the social and cultural environment of the New Left during the late 1960s.The Weathermen--a...

This concise biography of the world famous revolutionary Che Guevara provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of his remarkable life, tragic death, and enduring political legacy. Che Guevara is one of the most controversial and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612199627Author John LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250750129Author Tom SegevFormat PaperbackPage Count 816Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 38mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316929196Author George StephanopoulosFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Little, Brown and CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & Company

This first full account of Obasanjo's life from 1937 to 2010 combines an analysis of an exceptionally vital and complicated man with a history of an exceptionally vital and complicated country. Olusegun Obasanjo was Nigeria's military head of state...

The assassination of Chris Hani outside his home in Dawn Park on 10 April 1993 by a right-wing extremist was a decisive moment in the transition to democracy in South Africa. Drawing on personal knowledge of the ANC in exile in Lusaka, as well as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930852887Author Webster Griffin TarpleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 299Imprint Progressive PressPublisher Progressive PressWeight(grams) 474g

This is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Master Tara Singh (1885-1967), Akali leader, freedom fighter, and arguably the foremost leader of the Sikhs. Master Tara Singh's vision of the 'Indian National State' was fundamentally...

"Fanon was consummately incapable of telling the story of himself. He lived in the immediacy of the moment, with an intensity that embodied everything he evoked. Fanon's discourse pertained to a present tense that was unburdened by its narrative past...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536930Author Barry MeierFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

"What this remarkable book does . . . is to remind us of that passion, that revolutionary fervor, that camaraderie, that persistence in the face of political defeat and personal despair so needed in our time as in theirs." -Howard Zinn "Fascinating .....

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250044068Author Kim GhattasFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 340g

A brief yet lively introduction to antiapartheid activist Steve Biko, this biography argues that Biko was the most important political figure to have emerged in South Africa between Nelson Mandela's arrest in the early 1960s and his release in 1990...

Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed paths as students in 1950. Although one was a Russian and the other a Czech, they were both ardent supporters of communism and socialism. One took part in...

Winston Churchill is one of the most iconic and influential figures of British history, who served at the forefront of British politics for 50 years. In this absorbing collection of stories and trivia about the greatest of British statesmen, readers will...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999341902Author Jonathan GreenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Informing to EmpowerPublisher Informing to EmpowerWeight(grams)...

Hamas is designated a terrorist organization by Israel, the EU, the USA and the UN. It has made itself notorious for its violent radicalism and uncompromising rejection of the Jewish state. So after its victory in the 2006 elections the world was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809095087Author GearyFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Over the course of his long and controversial career, Joschka Fischer evolved from an archetypal 1960s radical--a firebrand street activist--into a shrewd political insider, operating at the heights of German politics. In the 1980s he was one of the...

There are few figures in British history more famous than Winston Churchill. Renowned for guiding Britain through the tumultuous Second World War, his speeches echo through history, and his wartime leadership is recognized as essential for weathering the...

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...

My Uncle Zhou Enlai paints a candid and heartwarming picture of one of China's most beloved leaders and its first premier, Zhou Enlai (1898-1976). Written by his nephew, Zhou Erliu, who found himself at the heart of the political turmoil of the 20th...

The New York Times bestselling autobiography of former Vice President Mike Pence.Loyalty is a Vice President's first duty; but there is a greater one-to God and the Constitution. Mike Pence spent more hours in the Oval Office than any of his predecessors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of CODES Notable Books Council Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143114819Author Steve CollFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143037729Author Jonathan D. SpenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 156gDimensions(mm)...

The Carter presidency is the most underappreciated of the last century. Often considered just a smiling but ineffectual Southerner in a sweater, Carter deserves to be remembered instead as a risk taker who always did the right thing, not the political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008949683Author Robert BrasillachFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g