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Originally published in 1919, The Iron Hunter is the autobiography of one of Michigan's most influential and flamboyant historical figures: the reporter, publisher, explorer, politician, and twenty-seventh governor of Michigan, Chase Salmon Osborn...

Elected governor of Georgia in 1958, Ernest Vandiver presided over a crisis greater than any faced by his predecessors since the Civil War: the 1961 desegregation of the state's public schools. Harold Paulk Henderson tells the full story of Vandiver's...

As a Harvard alumnus, diplomat, US President, member of Congress and attorney before the Supreme Court, John Quincy Adams had a unique relationship with slavery. Prickly and curmudgeonly, he danced with abolitionists, but never became one himself...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956098351Author Henry Von BlumenthalFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Longcross PressPublisher Longcross PressWeight(grams) 254g

In Looking Beyond Race, Otis Milton Smith (1922-94) recounts his life as an African American who overcame poverty and prejudice to become a successful politician, going on to become the first black vice president and general counsel of General Motors...

One of the most gripping images from the 1960s captures the slight figure of Dr. S. I. Hayakawa scrambling onto a sound truck parked in front of San Francisco State College amid campus unrest. Hayakawa had hoped to use this soapbox to address the...

Has liberalism lost its way--or merely its voice? This book by one of the nation's most insightful, articulate, and powerful Democrats at last breaks the silence that has greeted the Republican Party's revolution of 1994. When voters handed Democrats...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645583236Author Dhieu Mathok Diing WolFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint Africa World Books Pty LtdPublisher Africa World Books Pty LtdWeight(grams)...

A distinguished historian of early America sees Franklin's influence on the course of the revolutionary movement in a new light. Benjamin Franklin was a man of genius and enormous ego, smart enough not to flaunt his superiority but to let others proclaim...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374521905Author Andre JardinFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345303233Author John Kenneth GalbraithFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

This illuminating biography of our thirty-ninth president by an acclaimed historian of American religion presents Jimmy Carter as the last great standard-bearer of progressive evangelical politics. Evangelical Christianity and conservative politics are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469666075Author Associate Professor of History Matthew MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The...

This is the biography of a wily Scots settler who arrived in New York in 1675 and became one of the colony's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. His career illustrates the growing breach between English and American approaches to political and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088052686Author Cason LonghurstFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Cason LonghurstPublisher Cason LonghurstWeight(grams) 152g

"An original and informative biography that helps us understand that the American spirit--in its many shades--can never be suppressed."--Maceo Crenshaw Dailey Jr., University of Texas, El Paso "Sound and well argued, readable and engaging...

As a high-ranking American diplomat during the Cold War, Martin J. Hillenbrand was witness to some of the most exciting moments in twentieth-century history. After five years in Asia and Africa, Hillenbrand spent most of his diplomatic career dealing...

As governor of Rhode Island, J. Howard McGrath oversaw the passage of social legislation aimed at improving the lives of his constituents during the dark days of World War II. As a Rhode Island senator he served as the Democratic National Committee...

By the time he was forty-eight Steve Bracks had achieved the goal he'd set himself nine years earlier. He was Premier of Victoria. In A Premier's State, Bracks reflects on his ambition to make a difference, and how he reached his goal. This wide-ranging,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088100660Author Handri TimbulengFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 41g

Documents from The Papers of Daniel WebsterBook InformationISBN 9780874516289Author Daniel WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 351Imprint Dartmouth College PressPublisher University Press of New England

"A must read for all who continue to grapple with the twin legacy of hatred and hope from September 11. . . "*International terrorism expert Roland Jacquard's In the Name of Osama bin Laden presents a dramatic portrait of the world's most...

As a three-term member of Congress and as the secretary of the interior in the Kennedy and Johnson cabinets (1961-1969), Stewart L. Udall (1920-2010) was a distinguished public servant and one of the great environmental leaders in US history. This book,...

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Known in CIA circles as "the Elizabeth Taylor of the jihad" and among her cohorts as the "mother of Mohammed," Australia native Robyn (or Rabiah) Hutchinson lived for twenty years at the frontlines of the jihadist movement, after...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717808496Author Tony PecinovskyFormat HardbackPage Count 442Imprint International PublishersPublisher International PublishersWeight(grams) 708g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692801727Author Shannon O'TooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 668Imprint Washington SirenPublisher Washington SirenWeight(grams) 762g

Albert Dean Rosellini served two terms as governer of the state of Washington, from 1957 to 1964. In an era now commonly thought of as conservative and complacent, he was an activist leader whose main causes are mirrored in contemporary politics. In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446539265Author Senator Edward M KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Warner Books IncPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams)...

Michael Lynch, the central figure of this book, was a long-time gay activist and a dynamic force in organizing an early response to the AIDS epidemic. Lynch's prescient articles in The Body Politic spoke to the gay communities of Toronto, New York, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618219254Author Arthur M. SchlesingerFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998450735Author Cole CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Stellium BooksPublisher Stellium BooksWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Mirsad Had kadi never planned for a life in politics. Yet, in 2018, he decided to run for the Bosniak presidential council seat in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mirsad made the life-changing decision to run, despite the fact that he had a successful,...

Baltimore's "Do It Now" mayor, two-term Maryland governor, and recently elected comptroller of the treasury, William Donald Schaefer may be the most colorful character ever to play on the Free State's political stage-though competition for the honor is...

Overthrowing the conventional image of Stalin as an uneducated political administrator inexplicably transformed into a pathological killer, Robert Service reveals a more complex and fascinating story behind this notorious twentieth-century figure...

The life and times of the Premier from Red RiverJohn Norquay, orphan and prodigy, was a leader among the Scots Cree peoples of western Canada. Born in the Red River Settlement, he farmed, hunted, traded, and taught school before becoming a legislator,...

Modi: The Wheels of Change is a biography of Narendra Damodardas Modi, the 15th and current Prime Minister of India. It provides a compilation on the subject related to the Modi's electoral commitment, day to day work and governance of BJP during the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780869754580Author Shelagh GastrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Ravan Press (Pty) LtdPublisher Ravan Press (Pty) LtdWeight(grams) 375g

Eleni Kounalakis was 43 and a land developer in California when she was tapped by President Obama to serve as the US ambassador to Hungary. During her tenure, from 2010 to 2013, Hungary was a key ally to the US. The first Greek-American woman ever to...

This unique account of the life of German nationalist and revolutionary Charles Follen opens a window on several worlds during the first half of the nineteenth century. Seldom does one biography embrace so many important historical issues and events...