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She was the daughter of a circuit judge and state senator. He was the youngest son of Virginia's Civil War governor and a state legislator himself at the age of nineteen. Their courtship and marriage stands as a portrait of a bygone way of life unique to...

James J. Florio is best known as Governor of New Jersey from 1990 to 1994. But his career in local, state, and national government is far more varied, and his achievements as a progressive reformer are more substantial than most realize. This political...

The Master of Seventh Avenue is the definitive biography of David Dubinsky (1892-1982), one of the most controversial and influential labor leaders in 20th-century America. A "character" in the truest sense of the word, Dubinsky was both revered and...

A political biography that reveals new sides to Helen Keller Several decades after her death in 1968, Helen Keller remains one of the most widely recognized women of the twentieth century. But the fascinating story of her vivid political...

The rarely told story of Savitri Devi-a Frenchwoman and one of Hitler's most powerful advocates In this window onto the roots and evolution of international neo-Nazism, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke reveals the powerful impact of one of fascism's most...

This insightful collection of essays details the political life of one of the most prominent and gifted American statesmen of the twentieth century. From his early training in international law to his five terms in the US Senate, J. William Fulbright...

One of the most renowned Washington insiders of the twentieth century, Clark Clifford (1906--1998) was a top advisor to four Democratic presidents. As a powerful corporate attorney, he advised Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Jimmy...

"Compelling, suspenseful, and deeply reported . . . Masters gives a dramatic inside account of the fight between Spitzer and the titans of finance."--Newsday Few politicians have burst onto the American scene with as much impact as Eliot...

My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his...

The Call of the World is essential reading for anyone interested in international affairs and contemporary Canadian politics.Book InformationISBN 9780774890045Author Bill GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint University of British Columbia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717807727Author Elizabeth Gurly FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc...

Hailed as an honest, candid political memoir in a genre more often characterized by slick, self-serving campaign biographies, this book captures Barbara Lee's extraordinary life and political career from her early upbringing in El Paso, Texas, through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620816298Author Denis WorrallFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Dr Denis WorrallPublisher Dr Denis Worrall

In the summer of 1968 Peter Matthiessen met Cesar Chavez for the first time. They were the same age: forty-one. Matthiessen lived in New York City, while Chavez lived in the Central Valley farm town of Delano, where the grape strike was unfolding. This...

Eqbal Ahmad (1930?-1999) was a bold and original activist, journalist, and theorist who brought uncommon perspective to the rise of militant Islam, the conflict in Kashmir, the involvement of the United States in Vietnam, and the geopolitics of the Cold...

Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa offers the first complete biography in English of the dynamic revolutionary leader from Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara. Coming to power in 1983, Sankara set his sights on combating social injustice,...

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...