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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809461Author Jack HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947447523Author Octavian GaborFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

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...

Semen Kanatchikov, born in a central Russian village in 1879, was one of the thousands of peasants who made the transition from traditional village life to the life of an urban factory worker in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the last years of the...

A New York Times Bestseller, a 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and a Washington Post Book World, Publisher's Weekly, and Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of the Year "Superb. . . . The best short biography of Franklin ever...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986822Author James A. MichenerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dial Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm)...

Among the critical questions that Rodney dealt with whether he was in Tanzania, Jamaica or his native Guyana (formerly British Guiana) was the character of the postcolonial state and its relationship with the working people. It is his engagement with...

Mikhail Gorbachev is living proof that the word is mightier than the sword; that ideas, not armies, change the world. Dedicated to ridding humanity of the threat of nuclear annihilation, Gorbachev called for multilateral action to forge a common future...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The Fox News host and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Doesn't Hurt to Ask shares his trusted framework for decision making, telling the story of his life through the choices he's made using this revolutionary method...

A man of impressive mental powers, of extraordinary intellectual range, and-last but not least-of exceptional integrity, George Frost Kennan (1904-2005) was an adviser to presidents and secretaries of state, with a decisive role in the history of this...

For decades after the Second World War, Senator James O. Eastland (1904-1986) was one of the more intransigent leaders of the Deep South's resistance to what he called "the Second Reconstruction." And yet he developed, late in his life, a very real...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791434185Author Joan Young GreggFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

The authoritative edition of Franklin's autobiography, with a foreword by the eminent Franklin scholar Edmund S. Morgan "The best and most beautiful edition [of the Autobiography]."-J. H. Plumb, New York Review of Books "Among the many editions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861519054Author Bert MassieFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo Books

John C. Calhoun's ghost still haunts America today. First elected to congress in 1810, Calhoun served as secretary of war during the war of 1812, and then as vice-president under two very different presidents, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. It was...

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)...

This is the riveting and frightening story of ambitious, tempestuous and avowed anti-American Hugo Chavez, who is making waves through South America and being widely compared to Fidel Castro. Ex-paratrooper, outspoken socialist, and brash personality,...

This authorized biography of Havel, based on unrestricted access to him, his circle, and even his enemies, is not only the first definitive account of one of the modern world's great moral and political leaders but also a vivid panorama of the tumultuous...

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...

For more than two decades, Mayor Richard J. Daley ruled Chicago with an iron fist. The last of the big city bosses, Daley ran an unbeatable political machine that controlled over one million votes. From 1955 until his death in 1976, every decision went...

"The importance of Czartoryski could hardly be overestimated for the whole complex of 19th century political adjustments from Russia to Spain, England to the Dardanelles...Thorough and well-constructed, this definitive study will have a very considerable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400096411Author Kitty KelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 732gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905847075Author Sam TanenhausFormat HardbackPage Count 672Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing

A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha's Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship. Carly Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made an unlikely pair - Carly, a free and artistic spirit still reeling from her recent divorce,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679771289Author Marshall FradyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 383gDimensions(mm)...

Thomas Kettle: political activist, journalist, orator, poet, essayist, lawyer, nationalist MP, professor, recruiter, soldier and casualty of war. Born on 9 February 1880, he was killed in the opening minutes of the allied invasion of Ginchy on 9...

Until his death in a Gestapo prison cell, Rudolf Hilferding was one of Europe's most prominent socialist theorists and politicians. A leading economic thinker in the European socialist movement and an important politician in the German Social Democratic...

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

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | From "the FBI agent who started it all" (David Martin, CBS Sunday Morning), an epic, behind-the-scenes account of the biggest counterintelligence story of our time: Russia's war on American democracy, and the effort to...

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...

Fiorello La Guardia was one of the twentieth century's most colourful politicians - on the New York and national stage. He was also quintessentially American: the son of Italian immigrants, who rose in society through sheer will and chutzpah. Almost one...

Now in paperback, Madame Chiang Kai-shek is the first biography of one of history's most intriguing and controversial political figures. Beautiful, brilliant, and captivating, Madame Chiang Kai-shek seized unprecedented power during China's long and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501116452Author Bob WoodwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987614193Author Suzanne JamboFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Africa World Books Pty LtdPublisher Africa World Books Pty LtdWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312306243Author Francis BokFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 363g

The "lively and engrossing" (The Wall Street Journal) story of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles built an underground network determined to take down Hitler and destroy the Third Reich.Agent 110 is Allen Dulles, a newly minted spy from an eminent family...

1501: the turbulence of Henry VIII's reign brings passion and pain to the Morlands as they achieve ever greater wealth and prestige. Paul, great-grandsom of Elanor Morland, has inherited the Morland estates, and his own Amyas is set to be his heir. But...

"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life." Ronald Reagan Noted political commentator Michael Reagan, the son of Ronald Reagan and first wife Jane...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590516751Author Rithy PanhFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLCWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 130mm *...