Political

How did a scrawny black kid,the son of a barber and a domestic who grew up in Harlem and Trenton,become the 106th mayor of New York City? It's a remarkable journey. David Norman Dinkins was born in 1927, joined the Marine Corps in the waning days of...

John T. Flynn, a prolific writer, columnist for the New Republic, Harper's Magazine, and Collier's Weekly, radio commentator, and political activist, was described by the New York Times in 1964 as "a man of wide-ranging contradictions." In this...

Shortlisted, Semifinalist, 22nd Annual Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Finalist, Spur Award in western nonfiction biography, Western Writers of America Revered by many Texans and other Americans as "the People's Senator," Ralph Webster...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250192479Author James ComeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780230610989Author Vincent BzdekFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869194147Author F.A. MoutonFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 260g

Runner-up, Violet Crown Award, Writer's League of Texas, 2008 Renowned for his "brilliant legislative mind" and political oratory-as well as for bicycling to Congress in a rumpled white linen suit and bow tie-U.S. Congressman Bob Eckhardt was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679734185Author Sanford D. HorwittFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

A political portrait focused on Guevara's thought and political record aimed at dispelling many of the myths about the revolutionary. This re-examination of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara's thoughts on socialism, democracy and revolution is a must-read for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419659133Author Einat WilfFormat PaperbackImprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 163g

David Marshall (1908-1995) was one of Singapore's most remarkable sons. The eldest son of migrant Sephardic Jews, Marshall's brilliant academic career at Raffles Institution was brought to an abrupt end when he collapsed from tuberculosis. Sent away to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735098401Author Dan E MoldeaFormat PaperbackPage Count 744Imprint Moldea.comPublisher Moldea.comWeight(grams) 1075gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 42mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345548634Author William ManchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 1200Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345438317Author Robert K. MassieFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623717155Author Yves ChevrierFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063268616Author Jason KanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593511466Author Beverly GageFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455588237Author Alyssa MastromonacoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint TwelvePublisher TwelveWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802160867Author Aminatta FornaFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250171696Author Joe BidenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron Books

Welcoming its first executive in 1842, the Mississippi Governor's Mansion is the second-oldest continuously occupied governor's residence in the United States. The Mansion is both a public building open for tours and the private residence of the governor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538057Author Yanis VaroufakisFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Andrei Sakharov holds an honored place in the pantheon of the world's greatest scientists, reformers, and champions of human rights. But his embrace of human rights did not come through a sudden conversion; he came to it in stages. Drawing from a 2014...

This book tells the tale of the prolific Italian architect, inventor, farmer, writer, and engineer Gaetano Ciocca, whose career took him from the battlefronts of World War I to Stalin's Russia, Mussolini's Italy, FDR's America, and finally to postwar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922582737Author David Miles ConnollyFormat PaperbackPage Count 460Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF Press

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...