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In Woody Allen's 1973 film, Sleeper, a character wakes up in the future to learn that civilization was destroyed when "a man by the name of Albert Shanker got hold of a nuclear warhead." Shanker was condemned by many when he shut down the New...

The tenth and youngest son of a poor Boston soapmaker, Benjamin Franklin would rise to become, in Thomas Jefferson's words, "the greatest man and ornament of his age." In this short, engaging biography, historian Edwin S. Gaustad offers a marvelous...

The principal orchestrator of the passage of women's suffrage in Texas, a founder and national officer of the League of Women Voters, the first woman to run for a U.S. Senate seat from Texas, and a candidate for that state's governor, Minnie Fisher...

"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...

"Being governor is like no other job although it has similarities to being a country doctor. Like a physician, a governor is on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, asleep, awake, eating, in the shower, traveling in a car, or at a meeting. There...

Stephen Douglas and the old Union lived out their last years together. It was the most critical time in the life of both the Illinois senator and his country. During most of the period 1857-1861 the American nation could still choose between adjustment...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788771240573Author Ann-Christina Lauring KnudsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788173046339Author Surinder SinghFormat HardbackPage Count 358Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and Distributors

Justin McCarthy (1830-1912) is the forgotten leader of the Irish Home Rule Movement. Overshadowed by Parnell before him and the 1916 leaders shortly after his death, McCarthy's considerable contribution to the national cause has been largely overlooked...

Tirelessly striving for honesty, Gandhi was harder on himself than on anyone else - making him a charismatic leader whose life and words continue to influence people today.About the AuthorMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was the preeminent leader...

Wilf Page was a champion of agricultural workers, a promoter of justice in the countryside, a rural communist councillor during the difficult cold war years and a lifelong community activist. He is best known for his role in the National Union of...

This collection of essays commemorates the Parnells of Avondale and simultaneously uses the theme of commemoration to provide an insight into the shifting relationship between history and memory in the case of Charles Stewart Parnell and his family. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894759809Author Lorne GreenawayFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 410g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854891006Author Lori WilliamsonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Rivers Oram PressPublisher Rivers Oram Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845402396Author Nick HewlettFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint SocietasPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 200g

Be inspired by Barack Obama and learn how to think big with this unique insight into the mind of one of the world's great influencers. Born to a black Kenyan father and white American mother, raised in Hawaii and, for a time, Indonesia, Barack Obama...

An ordinary man's response to extraordinarily fascist times. In late 1936, as Franco's armies stormed toward Madrid, Stalin famously termed the defence of Spain "the common cause of all advanced and progressive mankind." As a German emigrant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613736692Author Jeff CoenFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 682g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600781964Author Mark SilvaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 484g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594485596Author Janny ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 342g

Circumstances impelled Victor Grossman, a U.S. Army draftee stationed in Europe, to flee a military prison sentence: especially the icy pressures of the McCarthy Era. Grossman - a.k.a. Steve Wechsler, a committed leftist since his years at Harvard and,...

Why would an American girl-child, born into a good, Irish-Catholic family in the thick of the McCarthy era - a girl who, when she came of age, entered a convent - morph into an atheist, feminist, and Marxist? The answer is in Helena Sheehan's...

Studs Terkel was an American icon who had no use for America's cult of celebrity. He was a leftist who valued human beings over political dogma. In scores of books and thousands of radio and television broadcasts, Studs paid attention - and respect - to...

This first full-length treatment of Russell Kirk's life and accomplishments blends new biographical insights and critical perspectives about the author of the ground-breaking The Conservative Mind.Book InformationISBN 9781568331317Author James E...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551641782Author Daniel FishchlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose BooksDimensions(mm) 9mm * 6mm * 1mm

A pajama party at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport inadvertently helped launch R.T. Rybak's political career (imagine a rumba line one hundred protesters long chanting, "We deserve to sleep, hey!"), but his earliest lessons in...

The Political Life of Bella Abzug, 1920-1976: Political Passions, Women's Rights, and Congressional Battles, by Alan H. Levy, marks the first full biography of Bella Abzug. Abzug was one of woman in politics in mid- and late-twentieth-century America...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781485304562Author Dirk MudgeFormat HardbackPage Count 550Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 780g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781431423347Author Hugh MacmillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Jacana Media (Pty) LtdPublisher Jacana Media (Pty) LtdWeight(grams) 110g

This biography of Govan Mbeki (1910-2001), activist and intellectual, goes beyond the narrative details of his long life. Drawing on lengthy interviews with 'Oom Gov', it analyses his thinking, expressed in his writings over 50 years. This helps...

People, Politics, and Purpose brings the historian’s myriad tools to bear on Canadians, from prime ministers to lumberjacks to Indigenous leaders. Drawing on the rich details of biography – the what – the contributors also address the larger questions –...

When Louis Gatewood Galbraith passed away in 2012, a flood of tributes merely scratched the surface of this "colorful" and controversial figure. Throughout his life and political career, regional and national media outlets focused on the policy ideas and...

Hailed as one of Boston’s most beloved mayors and its longest serving, Thomas Menino (1942–2014) deftly managed the city’s finances and transformed Boston into the hub of innovation that it is today. During his time in office, Boston embraced modern...

A revealing biography of Mike Pence, the most secretive vice president in modern history, from a reporter with unprecedented access."I'm a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican . . . in that order." -Mike PenceAs the impeachment of President Donald...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555916909Author Richard D. LammFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Fulcrum Inc.,USPublisher Fulcrum Inc.,USWeight(grams) 342g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446675468Author Martin Luther King, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Business PlusPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795708541Author Richard ThemaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Kwela BooksPublisher Kwela BooksWeight(grams) 1g

World War II commando, Cold War spy, and CIA director under presidents Nixon and Ford, William Egan Colby played a critical role in some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century. A quintessential member of the greatest generation, Colby...

As National Security Advisor to President Gerald Ford, advisor to President Ronald Reagan, and as National Security Advisor to President George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft was at the center of the ongoing debate over how to shape American foreign policy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147516381Author Wendy DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 276g