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In 1987, the city of Chicago hired a former radical college chaplain to clean up rampant corruption on the waterfront. R. J. Nelson thought he was used to the darker side of the law he had been followed by federal agents and wiretapped due to his antiwar...

Baers biography of the former Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Vladimir Clementis (19021952) is the first historical study on the Communist politician who was executed with Rudolf Slansky and other top Communist Party members after the show trial of 1952...

In Strom , Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson deliver a remarkable look at the life of a remarkable , and complicated , politician. First elected to public office in 1929, Strom Thurmond was a pivotal figure in the nation's politics for more than seven...

Presenting a superb account of a man characterized by his reticence, this biography offers rare and thorough insight into the life of one of South Africa's most powerful men: Kgalema Motlanthe. From Motlanthe's ancestral family to his political...

As chief of staff, Jean Becker had a ringside seat to the never-boring story of George Herbert Walker Bush's life post-presidency. Full of heart and wisdom, THE MAN I KNEW is a vibrant behind-the-scenes look into the ups and downs of heading up the...

A biography of William Wickham (1761-1840), Britain's master spy on the Continent for more than five years during the French Revolutionary wars. It follows Wickham's career to narrate the rise and fall of his secret service community.Book InformationISBN...

When Alfred Milner was knighted, he took as his motto Communis Patria, 'patriotism for our common country'. This is the study of Milner, which takes his politics, or 'constructive' imperialism as its primary theme. It also discovers a group of young...

Werner Scholem never took the easy path. Born in 1895 into the Berlin Jewish middle class, he married a young non-Jewish woman of proletarian background. He was the youngest member of the Prussian Parliament in the 1920s, one of the leaders of the German...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312304690Author Thomas BloodFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 463g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771620178Author Brad LavigneFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyreWeight(grams) 638g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629630342Author David HartsoughFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 304g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525572589Author Jeff WilserFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815727088Author Stephen HessFormat HardbackPage Count 800Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 825g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945190025Author Mary S PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Intellect Publishing, LLCPublisher Intellect Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312560850Author Randy ShiltsFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312560850Author Randy ShiltsFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Cocktails, Crises and Cockroaches is an entertaining yet instructive account of the life and experiences of a frontline diplomat in a variety of countries. The realities and flavors of diplomatic life (including its frustration, risks and comedy) are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947447523Author Octavian GaborFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060582623Author Peter StothardFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

A missing Iraqi scientist, an ex-Secret Service agent, and the threat of another biological terrorist attack-all these elements come together in the gripping true story of the Gray Bird of Baghdad. Iraqi Microbiologist Thamer Abdul Rahman Imran has...

As the editor of the Saturday Review for more than thirty years, Norman Cousins had a powerful platform from which to help shape American public debate during the height of the Cold War. Under Cousins's leadership, the magazine was considered one of the...

L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist (Graphic Novel/Comics) 2014 Cartoonist Studio Prize Shortlist 2014 Can a children's cartoon cause riots? One of Mana Neyestani's cartoons sparked riots, shuttered the newspaper he worked for, and landed the cartoonist...

Joshua L. Powell is the NRA--a lifelong gun advocate, in 2016, he began his new role as a senior strategist and chief of staff to NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre. What Powell uncovered was horrifying: "the waste and dysfunction at the NRA was staggering."INSIDE...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The former attorney general provides a candid account of his historic tenures serving two vastly different presidents, George H.W. Bush and Donald J. Trump.William Barr's first tenure as attorney general under...

A "devastating" expose of the United States' Latin American policy and the infamous career and assassination of agent Dan Mitrione (Kirkus Reviews). In 1960, former Richmond, Indiana, police chief Dan Mitrione moved to Brazil to begin a new career with...

Vida Clandestina is the first U.S. publication of the dramatic memoir of an important Cuban revolutionary who led a dangerous double life from 1952 to1959. Educated at University of Miami, then a high-ranking manager and engineer for Shell Oil, Enrique...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476796161Author Nick LittlefieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Shortlisted for Political Book of the Year at The Paddy Power Political Book Awards 2015 No politician pandered to the media's appetite for personality more than Liberal MP Cyril Smith. Instantly recognisable for his colossal build, Smith was a...

For nine years, Carwyn Jones was at the helm of Welsh politics. As First Minister from 2009 to 2018, he led the governance of an increasingly devolving Wales through turmoil and success. Not Just Politics follows Carwyn from his roots in a small corner...

The perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa gift or conversation starter for Corbyn haters and lovers this Christmas! This is the man In His Own Words. This is Corbyn on Party Politics, Vision & Principles, Defiance, Leadership and World Affairs, plus a...

Ernest Mandel (1923-1995) was a member of a very rare breed: a theorist of activist Marxism. Leader of the international Trotskyist movement, lifelong revolutionary, and scholar of world renown, Mandel was one of those few individuals who combined the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Rhode Island Teen Book Award 2002.Book InformationISBN 9780060856267Author Loung UngFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher...

Tony Abbott came to the prime ministership lauded as the most effective leader of the opposition since Whitlam. Why then did he fail to succeed in the job to which he had aspired for decades?Frontbenchers leaked about cabinet processes to the media while...

The first full-length biography of civil rights hero and congressman John Lewis “The perfect book, at the right time.”—Michael Henry Adams, The Guardian For six decades John Robert Lewis (1940–2020) was a towering figure in the U.S. struggle for civil...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804949399Author Dr Martin GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 1088Imprint Penguin (Cornerstone)Publisher CornerstoneWeight(grams) 500g

THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER ‘Required reading for anyone who has an interest in who governs Britain' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL 'This will be the most important political book of the year’ MATTHEW D’ANCONA, EVENING STANDARD ...

Tales of treachery, farce and folly across three millennia of world history.Book InformationISBN 9781529440010Author Ian CroftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Quercus PublishingPublisher Quercus Publishing

Shattering the mould of the modern prime ministerial memoir and written in his inimitable style, Boris Johnson’s Unleashed is an honest, unrestrained and deeply revealing book by the politician who has dominated our times. Underlying everything in the...

Shattering the mould of the modern prime ministerial memoir and written in his inimitable style, Boris Johnson’s Unleashed is an honest, unrestrained and deeply revealing book by the politician who has dominated our times. Underlying everything in the...