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Sarah Huckabee Sanders served as White House Press Secretary for President Donald J. Trump from 2017 to 2019. A trusted confidante of the President, Sanders advised him on everything from press and communications strategy to personnel and policy. She was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887062704Author Michael J. O'SheaFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

The more than 275 biographies of Saskatchewan politicians from the past 100 years that are included in this volume represent but a fraction of those who have been elected to public office in the province. These are only the longer-serving, the most...

From the optimism associated with provincial status in 1905, through the trials of Depression and war, the boom times of the post-war period, and the economic vagaries of the 1980s and 1990s, the twentieth century was a time of growth and hardship,...

"The Holy Crow"...How do you change one of Canada's most politically sensitive policies? Retiring the Crow Rate is an exacting study in the process of changing an entrenched public policy that many in the West saw as their birthright. It is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851248271Author Alfred Barratt BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 724Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksWeight(grams) 142g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851248141Author Ken CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Much loved in his own era, William Morris has inspired Prime Ministers (Clement Attlee), artists and eco-socialists (John Bellamy Foster). Ferociously opposed to capitalism and inequality, he sought to embrace humanity with passion, commitment, energy...

In the last weeks of the 1960 presidential race, Louis Martin pulled off a minor miracle. With two days to go before the election, this passionate civil rights advocate and Democratic activists put two million pamphlets into the hands of black voters...

Boss of Black Brooklyn presents a riveting and untold story about the struggles and achievements of the first black person to hold public office in Brooklyn. Bertram L. Baker immigrated to the United States from the Caribbean island of Nevis in 1915...

Emerging from two decades of the Great Depression and the New Deal and facing the rise of radical ideologies abroad, the American Right seemed beaten, broken, and adrift in the early 1950s. Although conservative luminaries such as T. S. Eliot, William F...

From June 1963 to October 1964, ten antiapartheid activists were tried at South Africa's Pretoria Supreme Court. Standing among the accused with Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada, and Walter Sisulu was Denis Goldberg. Charged under the Sabotage and...

This well-crafted and engaging biography of Augustus Garrett and his wife, Eliza Clark Garrett, tells two equally compelling stories: an ambitious man's struggle to succeed and the remarkable spiritual journey of a woman attempting to overcome tragedy...

Hugh Segal is a very well-known and well-liked former politician who has served in myriad roles in provincial, federal, and international politics, with formal positions as chief of staff to a Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and principal secretary to the...

"Going my way?" asked John Turner's campaign brochure in 1962, "my way is the Liberal way." It was, that is, until Pierre Trudeau came to power. Turner was his party's star apprentice in the Liberal art of managing a heterogeneous nation through...

On November 3, 1979, members of the Ku Klux Klan drove into an anti-Klan rally in a black housing project in Greensboro, North Carolina and opened fire. They killed five demonstrators and wounded ten. All those killed were anti-racist community and labor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679762089Author Bill BradleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

This beautifully designed book brings together Kok Nam's photos as well as tributes to Machel and quotations from his own speeches, reminding us of the power of his oratory and the depth of his commitment to a free, democratic and just Mozambique. As...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624091875Author Zikhona ValelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Tafelberg Publishers LtdPublisher Tafelberg Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624065074Author Mamphela RampheleFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Tafelberg Publishers LtdPublisher Tafelberg Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525563006Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440001294Author Jorge RamosFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

Widely regarded as one of the leading environmentalists in American history, Gaylord Nelson is best known as the founder of Earth Day. This political biography tells the rest of the story - how a small town boy from Wisconsin became a national champion...

Ted Van Dyk, a shrewd veteran of countless national political and policy fights, casts fresh light on many of the leading personalities and watershed events of American politics since JFK. He was a Pentagon intelligence analyst during the Berlin Crisis...

A remarkable history of one of the most legendary US senators of our time, Birch Bayh: Making a Difference reveals a life and career dedicated to the important issues facing Indiana and the nation, including civil rights and equal rights for women. Born...

Political profiles of five mayors and their lasting impact on the city Chicago’s transformation into a global city began at City Hall. Dick Simpson and Betty O’Shaughnessy edit in-depth analyses of the five mayors that guided the city through this...

The 2012 race for the White House is racing along at full tilt. Mitt Romney is widely assumed to be the front-runner for the Republican nominee. Question is, can he hold the lead? Ron Scott provides the first independent (unauthorized) biographical...

A Voluntary Crucifixion traces the story of 20th century Canada through the MacKinnon clan and David J MacKinnon?s life. Disillusioned with the slow death of the soul promised by life at a major Montreal law firm, MacKinnon ripped himself untimely from...

Robert Parson's plans for restoring Catholicism involved either the conversion of James VI of Scotland or the installation of the Spanish Infanta. Parsons's ideas became an integral part of the struggle between Catholicism and Protestantism in religion...

"And just who was President Lincoln?" One can almost hear Brian Lamb's understated Midwestern intonation of an almost absurdly basic question. Without pretense or the need to sound important, Lamb seeks to open the door to an understanding of public...

Alan Berkman (1945-2009) was no campus radical in the mid-1960s; he was a promising Ivy League student, football player, Eagle Scout, and fraternity president. But when he was a medical student and doctor, his politics began to change, and soon he was...

Histories and biographies of Winston Churchill frequently mention his friends. Some comment on their importance but few explain their significance. Indeed, he rarely spoke of his friendships. However, his concern for friends and for friendship always...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789881376565Author Peter MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith Books

George Hara Williams was the most successful of the early leaders of the CCF in Saskatchewan. But his role in the party was undermined by Tommy Douglas and M. J. Coldwell, and now he is almost forgotten. The populist who mobilized farmers of the...

"Substantial and significant....engaging."- James Naylor, author of The Fate of Labour Socialism As one of the architects of Saskatchewan's socialist revolution, Joseph Lee Phelps earned both respect and disdain from his peers. Colourful and...

Manitoba's long history of conflict, and the impact that has had on the rest of Canada, is revealed in these political biographies of the province's first eighteen premiers. Throughout its history, Manitoba has been a province struggling with religious,...

Walter Scott was a populist with a vision for the new province. A newspaperman, entrepreneur, and land speculator before being elected to the House of Commons in 1900, by 1905, Scott had become leader of the Saskatchewan Liberal party and premier of the...

"I have faith in a better future, because I have faith that most human beings want to do the right thing." - Lois Hole In early 2005, Alberta lost one of its greatest treasures--a woman who not only voiced her thoughts, but also acted upon them...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855755027Author Quentin BeresfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Aboriginal Studies PressPublisher Aboriginal Studies PressWeight(grams) 770g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825307812Author Webb HubbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Beaufort BooksPublisher Beaufort BooksWeight(grams) 482g