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Few figures in modern India have enjoyed such acclaim and adoration as Jayaprakash Narayan. And yet, he has been equally vilified for all that went wrong in the unfinished post-colonial movement for freedom and democracy. Jayaprakash Narayan, or JP as he...

Exiled Emissary is a biography of the colorful life of George H. Earle, III - a Main Line Philadelphia millionaire, war hero awarded the Navy Cross, Pennsylvania Governor, Ambassador to Austria and Bulgaria, friend and supporter of Franklin Roosevelt,...

Socialist Cowboy is a political biography detailing the life and activism of longtime New Democrat mpp Peter Kormos, one of the most colourful and controversial political personalities in the history of Ontario politics. Throughout his illustrious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608010875Author Normando Hernández GonzálezFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771047220Author David JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint SignalPublisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams) 301g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978824973Author Raymond LesniakFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 156g

As Democratic ward committeeman for more than twenty years (a position that controlled many patronage jobs), Bill Clay, Sr. was also a congressman putting him at the epicenter of most local political storms. Clay recounts his forty-one-year odyssey...

George Samuel Evans, barrister, editor, and politician, was a man of his time. A brilliant scholar with formidable skills in both oratory and journalism, he was bred to pursue the goals of civil and religious liberty. His dissenting background and...

Since his election to the U.S. Senate in 2006, Ohio's Sherrod Brown has sat on the Senate floor at a mahogany desk with a proud history. In Desk 88, he tells the story of eight of the Senators who were there before him. Despite their flaws and frequent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873954297Author Barbara DiBernardFormat PaperbackPage Count 163Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780910155564Author Mendy GanchrowFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Bartleby PressPublisher Bartleby PressWeight(grams) 776gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This volume, chiefly Wolfe's letters from 1939 with unpublished speeches and writings from the Hoover Archives, illuminates his struggle to uncover the truth about the history of Soviet Russia and his anguish over his earlier allegiances not only to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684580378Author Hadassah LiebermanFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Brandeis University PressPublisher Brandeis University PressWeight(grams) 140g

New Zealand’s first elected woman prime minister; nine years in power through the foreshore and seabed, Afghanistan and Iraq, Corngate and Speedgate; head of the UN Development Program and ranked among the most powerful women in the world. Helen Clark’s...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954854963Author Robin F. SchepperFormat HardbackPage Count 396Imprint Girl Friday ProductionsPublisher Girl Friday Productions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781477325049Author Max ShermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint University of Texas PressPublisher University of Texas PressWeight(grams) 140g

In the summer of 1776, fifty-six men risked their lives and livelihood to defy King George III and sign the Declaration of Independence yet how many of them do we actually remember? Signing Their Lives Away introduces readers to the eclectic group of...

Into the Well, Diving Deep Into Texas Politics (WT) is the hopeful tale of one woman's journey to dispel illusion, find truth, and come to terms with a life in the wild and wooly world of Texas politics at a time when powerful women were a rarity, often...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889714243Author Bob WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 139g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928232520Author Jean FairbairnFormat PaperbackPage Count 187Imprint Jacana Media (Pty) LtdPublisher Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922582744Author David Miles ConnollyFormat PaperbackPage Count 461Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF Press

For more than four decades, Hugh Segal has been one of the leading voices of progressive conservatism in Canada. A self-described Red Tory warrior who disdains “bootstrap” approaches to poverty, he has always promoted policies, especially a basic annual...

For centuries, rumors have circulated in England that Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell did not die of natural causes. Now, in a fascinating book that reads like a historical whodunit, we have a motive, a means, a murderer (complete with his own deathbed...

Some did not expect him to last long as Prime Minister. Few predicted he would succeed in the footsteps of Lee Kuan Yew. When Goh Chok Tong took over as the second Prime Minister of Singapore in 1990, many - from within and without the country - wondered...

Alexa McDonough's impact on Canadian politics cannot be measured solely by election victories or seat tallies. As the first female leader of a mainstream Canadian political party, she helped transform Nova Scotia and Canadian politics. In the process,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804179096Author Kirsten GillibrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576753927Author Marisa HandlerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Berrett-KoehlerPublisher Berrett-KoehlerWeight(grams) 555g

In August 1972, Newsweek proclaimed that “the person in Washington who has done the most for the women’s movement may be Richard Nixon.” Today, opinions of the Nixon administration are strongly colored by foreign policy successes and the Watergate...

Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win tells the fascinating true story of an individual radical organizer turned independent Chicago city council member, and her forty year struggle for justice in Chicago.Helen Shiller went from radical anti-war activist in...

The half century covered by Raoul Bossy's diaries and memoirs was one of major upheaval in the world, particularly in Eastern Europe. A keen and witty observer, Bossy faithfully recorded the reactions of informed people to the then unfolding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925835120Author Dennis AltmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608937707Author Douglas RooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint Down East BooksPublisher Down East BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147516466Author Mark LeibovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 239g

On 1 October 1939, Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty and soon to be the UK's wartime leader, described Russia as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma'. The same can certainly be said of Stalin. How can this paradox of a man, who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982160777Author Will HurdFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700633265Author Matthew N GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint University Press of KansasPublisher University Press of Kansas

This biography shows how Black political leader Chris Hani's life and death were pivotal to ending apartheid and to establishing a democratic government in South Africa. Chris Hani is one of the most iconic figures in South Africa's history, as a leader...

This deeply moving story chronicles the tenacity and vision that carried Carl Elliott from the hills of northwest Alabama to eight distinguished terms in the United States House of Representatives. Born in a log cabin on a tenant farm in 1913, Carl...

Mike Starr had a remarkable career in Canadian politics. In June 1957, he was appointed Minister of Labour in John Diefenbaker's cabinet and created a sensation, especially among Canadian ethnocultural groups. He made political history as the first...