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This volume commemorates the opening of the Lee H. Hamilton Congressional Papers at Indiana University. The papers are a selection made by his staff from the approximately 3,500 cartons of records generated from 1965 to 1999 during Hamiltons 34-year...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565543034Author Garry BoulardFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing CoWeight(grams) 365g

A classic account of courage, integrity, and most of all, belongingIn 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union and the movement for free Jewish emigration, was arrested by the KGB. He spent nine...

In 1969, Henry Catto was selling insurance in San Antonio, Texas. Just twenty years later, he presented his credentials as ambassador to the Court of St. James's to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, at Buckingham Palace. In this engaging memoir, he...

Who is Roger Casement? is history with a difference; it is an excursion into the early twentieth century, when the final dramatic events of Roger Casement's life were unfolding. The controversial tale of Casement's life is brought to us through the...

Who is Hillary Clinton? is a fascinating time-lapse depiction of the leading Democratic presidential candidate as seen from the left. But it is also much more than that. A carefully-edited anthology of The Nation's coverage of Clinton's career, it's a...

A stirring portrait of Vice President Mike Pence from his own daughter: the story of a Christian husband and father who answers the call to serve America with his family by his side. When Mike Pence set out on the vice presidential campaign trail, his...

Of particular interest to scholars and students in women's studies and Canadian history, this book will also appeal to feminists with an interest in history and enthusiasts of British Columbia history.Book InformationISBN 9780774838696Author Veronica...

In Service of Emergent India is an evocative insider's account of a crucial period in India's history. It provides an in-depth look at events that changed the way the world perceived India, and a unique view of Indian statecraft. As Minister of External...

"I was taught from the start not to be silent." For years, renowned activist and scholar Ilana Hammerman has given the world remarkable translations of Kafka. With A Small Door Set in Concrete, she turns to the actual surreal existence that is life in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197583357Author Doreen J MattinglyFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

The Soviet physicist, dissident, and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. The first Russian to have been so recognized, Sakharov in his Nobel lecture held that humanity had a "sacred...

"A vital book for understanding the still-unfolding nightmare of nationalism and racism in the 21st century." -Francisco Cantu, author of The Line Becomes a River Stephen Miller is one of the most influential advisors in the White House. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604866858Author Luis Nieves FalconFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 189g

Mike Bloomberg has repeatedly defied the standard models for success. He has never won a crowd over with his speaking prowess. Rooms do not hush with anticipation when he enters. Celebrity stalkers do not haunt him. But his unparalleled achievements drip...

Marie "Missy" Mattingly Meloney was born in 1878, in an America where women couldn't vote and had extremely limited political power. By the time she died in 1943, women had been voting for over two decades and were a recognised political block...

Honorable Mention, Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of Letters, 2019Jim Wright made his mark on virtually every major public policy issue in the later twentieth century-energy, education, taxes, transportation,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781431429639Author Imtiaz A. CajeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Jacana Media (Pty) LtdPublisher Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd

M. Stanton Evans (d. 2015) was one of the unsung heroes and key figures of the modern conservative movement, offering a model to be remembered and emulated in both thought and deed. A person of extraordinary breadth, he combined the roles of journalist,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558615861Author Barbara BickFormat PaperbackPage Count 167Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

Of all the many biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, none has presented the twenty-sixth president as he saw himself: as a man of letters. This fascinating account traces Roosevelt's lifelong engagement with books and discusses his writings from childhood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982191191Author David E HoffmanFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 712gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939923816Author Jane C WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, USPublisher McDonald & Woodward...

A lifelong crusader for society's powerless, Senator Paul Douglas championed reform and helped to bring civil rights issues to the forefront of mid-twentieth-century American politics. During his eighteen years in the U.S. Senate, his advocacy of liberal...

"The book that most shocked me this year for its literary quality is called Tzompaxtle, although in English it has another title, Torn from the World. The author is John Gibler, a real outlaw."--Diego Enrique Osorno, author of El Cartel de...

This fourth edition of Roderic Camp's highly respected Mexican Political Biographies is an updated comprehensive biographical directory of leading state and national politicians in Mexico, covering the years 1935-2009. The original edition, published in...

More than one hundred years before Barack Obama, George Edwin Taylor made presidential history. Born in the antebellum South to a slave and a freed woman, Taylor became the first African American ticketed as a political party's nominee for president of...

Khalil Maleki (1901-1969) was a selfless campaigner for democracy and social welfare in twentieth-century Iran. His was a unique approach to politics, prioritising the criticism of policies detrimental to his country's development over the pursuit of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630260941Author Charles EversFormat HardbackPage Count 362Imprint Trade Paper PressPublisher Trade Paper Press

There is no one quite like her. Michelle Obama. This is the first book to tell the astonishing story of a woman whose intellect, verbal flair, and poise are certain to make her one of the most influential First Ladies in history. A woman whose remark,...

Here is the personal story of a young female parliamentarian who entered public life with expectations awakened by Nelson Mandela's presidency, only to become disenchanted with party politics and with the moral meltdown she experienced within Parliament...

Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire eighteenth century. This volume includes Franklin's reflections on such diverse questions as philosophy...

Ozawa Ichiro is one of the most important figures in Japanese politics, having held the positions of Chief Secretary of the Liberal Democrat Party and, after defection from the LDP, President of the Democratic Party of Japan. Ozawa has distinctive ideas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925495355Author Bruce GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 500g

As a precocious young girl, Surekha knew very little about the details of her mother Amma's unusual past and that of Babu, her mysterious and sometimes absent father. The tense, uncertain family life created by her parents' distant and fractious marriage...

"The life, work and activism of Rocky Jones are central to African-Canadian history and the civil rights movement in Canada. Canadians lost a great soul, with the recent death of Rocky Jones, but his autobiography - co-written by James Walker, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year 2021 (United States).Book InformationISBN 9781948954129Author Regan BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint...

Among all the fifty-six men who have served as New York's governor, none was more complicated, self-righteous, pugilistic, and exasperating than Mario Cuomo. As governor, Mario Cuomo is remembered most for his advocacy of the "personally-opposed-but"...

At a time when too many of the world's political leaders are consolidating power by playing on divisions and stoking fear, Unlikely Insider, a memoir by former federal cabinet minister and senator Jack Austin, comes as a welcome reminder of the value of...

From his first election in 1955 to 1976, Mayor Richard J. Daley dominated Chicago's political landscape. A product of the Irish Catholic working class, Daley never lost touch with his roots as he rose through the Democratic Party machine-whose workings...