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'With his Diaries, he has written himself into the life of our times with a panache and candour that ranks him next to Boswell or Pepys' The Times The first two volumes of Alan Clark's were irresistible, irreverent, infamous, outrageous. This last volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780715623862Author Alan WatkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Gerald Duckworth & Co LtdPublisher Duckworth OverlookWeight(grams) 560g

Winner of the Parliamentary Book Award, best memoir by a Parliamentarian, 2016 From the condemned slums of Southam Street in West London to the corridors of power in Westminster, Alan Johnson's multi-award-winning autobiography charts an extraordinary...

"Probably the most explosive book of the year will be Tom Bower's Broken Vows - Tony Blair and the Tragedy of Power. Bower has a reputation for unearthing unwelcome truths." (The Times Cultural Review 2016). When Tony Blair became prime...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Western India in 1869. He was educated in London and later travelled to South Africa, where he experienced racism and took up the rights of Indians, instituting his first campaign of passive resistance. In 1915 he...

'THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ' Mail on Sunday 'Meticulous and highly readable ... Funny and devastating' Daily Telegraph 'The most compelling in-depth study so far' Guardian A gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing Street...

'The political memoir of the decade' Sunday Times The referendum on Britain's membership of the EU is one of the most controversial political events of our times. For the first time, the man who called that vote talks about the decision and its origins,...

`A magisterial, detailed and invaluable account of one of this century's greatest figures ... it is hard to believe that a better biography will ever be written.' Justin Cartwright, Sunday Telegraph The life of Nelson Mandela, from the personal and the...

The highly anticipated memoir of Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl from Pakistan's Swat region who stood up to the Taliban. I come from a country which was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday. When the Taliban took control of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788497940177Author Miguel Gimenez SaurinaFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Edimat Libros s.a.Publisher Edimat Libros s.a.

Elkanah Watson (1758-1842) travelled everywhere and associated with everyone--soldiers, politicians, diplomats, Indians, artists, scientists, slave traders and abolitionists. He met the Marquis de Lafayette, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John...

John Smith died on 12 May 1994, less that two years into his leadership of the Labour Party. In this biography, some of those people closest to Smith express their feelings about the man. His widow, Elizabeth, writes about how his life in politics and...

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He is a most unlikely revolutionary: a middle-aged, middle-class former grammar schoolboy who honed his radicalism on the mean streets of rural Shropshire. Until recently, Jeremy Corbyn was barely known outside political circles, yet last summer he rode...

Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first First Lady to have her own office in the West Wing of the White House and the only First Lady ever to be subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury. Upon leaving the White House, she was elected as the first female...

There are so many myths about the extraordinary presence and political life of Margaret Thatcher, but what was it really like to work for her? In this remarkable collection, Gillian Shephard - who herself served as a minister under Margaret Thatcher -...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A life in and out of politics - from the despatch box to the stage on Strictly - by one of Britain's most influential and well-loved political figures. 'An engaging, highly readable and on occasion moving portrayal of life in...

From the personal and political upheavals of the Great War, through the Churchills' 'wilderness years' in the 1930s, to Clementine's desperate efforts to preserve her husband's health during the struggle against Hitler, this is the inspiring but often...

'Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever' Owen Jones Bernie Sanders stormed to international headlines after running an extraordinary campaign for the Democratic primaries that saw over 13 million people turn out to vote for him, and changed the...

A genuinely new biography of Churchill, focusing on his contradictory and lifelong relationship with the British Empire. One of our finest narrative historians, and journalist for the SUNDAY TIMES and LITERARY REVIEW, Lawrence James, has written a...

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Maraniss reveals the startling story of US President Barack Obama's early years. At the heart of Obama's psyche, and therefore his presidency, is his life-long struggle to form an identity. Through in-depth...

The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller `A compelling read' - Financial Times `A sporadically absorbing, pleasingly vengeful and often darkly funny account of one woman's bid for presidential history.' Sunday Times `Her new book is more gossipy, it is...

Shortlisted for the Political Book Awards 2013 Political Book of the Year One of the most inspiring women of our age, Mary Robinson has spent her life in pursuit of a fairer world. Now, for the first time, she reveals what lies behind the vision,...

Barry Goldwater was a defining figure in American public life, a firebrand politician associated with an optimistic brand of conservatism. In an era in which American conservatism has lost his way, his legacy is more important than ever. For over 50...

Michelle Obama played a large and influential role in her husband's campaign, and is certain to do the same thing during his presidency. Michelle Obama: First Lady of Hope examines, for the first time, her astonishing career, from her undergraduate years...

A concise, brilliant and trenchant examination of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his lifelong quest for the presidency Former vice president Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest - fortunate to have sustained a...

Ken Clarke needs no introduction. One of the genuine 'Big Beasts' of the political scene, during his forty-six years as the Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire he has been at the very heart of government under three prime ministers. He...

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE CRISES, CHOICES AND CHALLENGES SHE FACED DURING HER FOUR YEARS AS AMERICA'S 67THSECRETARY OF STATE, AND HOW THOSE EXPERIENCES DRIVE HER VIEW OF THE FUTURE. 'All of us face hard choices in our lives,' Hillary...

As a small boy in Epping Forest, Jack Straw could never have imagined that one day he would become Britain's Lord Chancellor. As one of five children of divorced parents, he was bright enough to get a scholarship to a direct-grant school, but spent his...

'He writes with gusto...the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ...this book sizzles.' The Times 'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard 'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.'...

In the summer of 2006, Colour-Sargeant Kailash Limbu's platoon was sent to relieve and occupy a police compound in the town of Now Zad in Helmand. He was told to prepare for a forty-eight hour operation. In the end, he and his men were under siege for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250343321Author Valerie Biden OwensFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

This master politician and self-made man served for half a century, as congressman and later as key New Deal senator from his native South Carolina; as Supreme Court justice; as "assistant president" during the Second World War; as Truman's secretary of...

Jean H. Baker tells the compelling story of four generations of an American family and its most celebrated member, the high-minded, eloquent, and perennial also-ran icon of liberal politics, Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (1900-1965). The Stevensons is also a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546248354Author Javier GomezFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 993g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781441507754Author Benjamin ScottFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578889641Author Jeffrey LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Jeffrey LevyPublisher Jeffrey LevyWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546248330Author Javier GomezFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 708g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393331844Author James MacGregor BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781669870982Author Garang Kuot KuotFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Xlibris UsPublisher Xlibris UsWeight(grams) 213g