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Sir Rutherford Alcock: First British Minister to Japan, 1859–1865 Robert Morton 9789463725293
RRP: £123.00£117.85The son of a village doctor, Rutherford Alcock trained in medicine and became a battlefield surgeon, working in Portugal and Spain during the civil wars there in the 1830s. In a major career shift, he entered the consular service, went to China, and... -
Abraham Lincoln: A Life Michael Burlingame 9781421451664
RRP: £20.50£17.43Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised.Sixteenth president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, and a... -
SA-Fuhrer: The Senior Leadership of Hitler's Storm Troops, 1920-1945, Volume 1 Michael D. Miller 9781781559222
RRP: £65.00£55.25How did Adolf Hitler, who had never risen higher in military service than the rank of lance-corporal, attain mastery over Germany and most of Europe? Many factors contributed to the emergence of the Third Reich, and prominent among these were the actions... -
Arc of Power: Inside Nancy Pelosi's Speakership, 2005–2010 John A. Lawrence 9780700638055
RRP: £32.95£23.80Drawing from his thousands of pages of notes written while serving as chief of staff to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, John Lawrence has written a narrative documenting his insider perspective from 2005 to 2010. These momentous years included furious... -
No Man Is An Island: Community and Commemoration on Norway's Utøya Jørgen Watne Frydnes 9781625348494
RRP: £85.00£72.25On July 22, 2011, a white supremacist killed eight people at Oslo’s Government Center in Norway and then terrorized the idyllic island of UtØya, where he executed sixty-nine more people, mostly teenagers. The country had never suffered such a massacre,... -
Lula: A Biography Fernando Morais 9781804294925
RRP: £25.00£20.41Lula is among the greatest political figures in Brazilian history. The only president in the country with a working-class background, combined with a party that was profoundly original in its roots, he exercised charismatic power and influence in a more... -
Oliver Cromwell: The brave, bad man of British history Professor John Morrill 9781408186244
RRP: £25.00£21.25Oliver Cromwell is one of the most significant figures in British history – and one of the most misinterpreted. In this major new biography, John Morrill argues that Cromwell has been seriously misinterpreted by historians, not least by left-wing... -
The Strange Genius of Ignatius Donnelly: The Populist Who Debunked Shakespeare and Found Atlantis Zachary Michael Jack 9781501776939
RRP: £26.99£20.46The Strange Genius of Ignatius Donnelly sheds light on the inimitable life of a neglected figure in US political and literary history. The father of American Populism, lieutenant governor of Minnesota, People's Party candidate for vice president,... -
No Man Is An Island: Community and Commemoration on Norway's Utøya Jørgen Watne Frydnes 9781625348487
RRP: £23.95£20.36On July 22, 2011, a white supremacist killed eight people at Oslo’s Government Center in Norway and then terrorized the idyllic island of UtØya, where he executed sixty-nine more people, mostly teenagers. The country had never suffered such a massacre,... -
Sir John A. MacDonald: The Apocalyptic Year of 1887 Patrice Dutil 9781990823305
RRP: £23.99£20.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990823305Author Patrice DutilFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
The Memoirs of Wendell W. Young III: A Life in Philadelphia Labor and Politics Wendell W. Young III 9781439918630
RRP: £21.99£18.69Philadelphia native Wendell W. Young III was one of the most important American labor leaders in the last half of the twentieth century. An Acme Markets clerk in the 1950s and ’60s, he was elected top officer of the Retail Clerks Union when he was... -
The World According to Ben Stein: Wit, Wisdom & Even More Wit Ben Stein 9781630061777
RRP: £21.99£18.69The wit and wisdom and more wit from America’s best-known economist, personal finance expert, actor, writer and political commentator. Ben Stein, a polymath famous and beloved for his iconic movie and tv roles, bestselling books and humorous writings and... -
Unimaginable: The Sandy Hook Conspiracy and the Fight of Our Lives Robbie Parker 9781635769838
RRP: £26.99£22.94How one father, determined to reclaim his daughter’s memory, brought down Alex Jones. On December 14, 2012, Robbie Parker’s daughter, Emilie, was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary in an unthinkable tragedy that changed both Robbie’s life and our country... -
In the Shadow of the White House: A Memoir of the Washington and Watergate Years, 1968-1978 Jo Haldeman 9781947856332
RRP: £14.99£12.74For her first forty years, Jo Haldeman's life followed a conventional path. While her husband, Bob, built his career in advertising, Jo comfortably settled into her role as mother of four, housewife, and community volunteer.In 1968, Jo's world changed... -
The Shadow Emperor: A Biography of Napoleon III Alan Strauss-Schom 9781398125445
RRP: £14.99£12.74‘Louis Napoleon’s story is certainly remarkable. Alan Strauss-Schom tells it with brio in The Shadow Emperor… This is a boldly revisionist biography… For all the corruption and repression that marked his reign, Louis Napoleon may have done more for... -
Bill Hobby: A Life in Journalism and Public Service Don Carleton 9781953480125
RRP: £29.99£25.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953480125Author Don CarletonFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Briscoe Ctr for Amer History Ut-AustinPublisher Briscoe Ctr for Amer History... -
Harold Wilson: The Prime Ministers Series Alan Johnson 9781800753327
RRP: £16.99£14.44The ex-politician and bestselling author Alan Johnson, who was a Labour cabinet minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, takes on the life and premierships of Harold Wilson.Book InformationISBN 9781800753327Author Alan JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Iconoclast: A Reflective Biography of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Anand Teltumbde 9780670093885
RRP: £39.95£33.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670093885Author Anand TeltumbdeFormat HardbackPage Count 700Imprint Viking (India)Publisher Penguin Books India Pvt LtdWeight(grams) 597g -
Hated by All the Right People: Tucker Carlson and the unravelling of the conservative mind Jason Zengerle 9781914484483
RRP: £16.99£14.44A revelatory, jaw-dropping portrait of Tucker Carlson’s career and a Zelig-like story of reinvention: from insider to populist, from respectability to insanity, the story of how the right-wing media lost its mind. New York Magazine writer Jason... -
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal Ben Macintyre 9781526683755
RRP: £12.99£9.09THE SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 BESTSELLER WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JOHN LE CARRÉ 'Riveting, astounding . . . An unputdownable postwar thriller' Observer 'Irresistibly readable' Sunday Times 'Worthy of John le Carré at his best' Guardian 'Hugely engrossing . . ... -
God Calls Us to Do Hard Things: Lessons of Faith, Family, and Leading from the Heart Katie Boyd Britt 9781538756294
RRP: £16.99£13.73Through her life story, rising Republican star Senator Katie Britt shares some candid advice for how to overcome personal challenges, appreciate blessed moments, make our lives more fulfilling, and keep an unshakeable faith in God, family and our country... -
Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim Il-sung Fyodor Tertitskiy 9781911723547
RRP: £25.00£21.25Kim Il-sung was the enigmatic architect of North Korea. His life is an extraordinary tale of improbable success: once a barely educated guerrilla fighter, he rose to lead the nation at the young age of 33. Against all odds, he established a horrifyingly... -
Remembering Kalākaua: Joseph Mokuʻōhai Poepoe’s Ka Moʻolelo o ka Mōʻī Kalākaua I Joseph Mokuʻōhai Poepoe 9780824891930
RRP: £27.95£23.76Upon sighting the USS Charleston on January 29, 1891, hundreds of citizens of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi rushed to Honolulu Harbor to celebrate the return of King David Kalākaua. Just two months earlier, their beloved mōʻī had left the islands on a mission... -
The Boy from Baghdad: My Journey from Waziriyah to Westminster Nadhim Zahawi 9780008640699
RRP: £25.00£16.43The first memoir from Nadhim Zahawi MP Born and raised in Baghdad, Nadhim Zahawi arrived in the UK aged 11, having been forced to flee Iraq with his family, under threat from Saddam Hussein’s regime. In this candid and thoughtful memoir, Nadhim... -
The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos Mark Chiusano 9781668043684
£11.88From the dogged Long Island reporter who has been on his trail since 2019, the bizarre, page-turning, and frankly hysterical story of America’s most outrageous grifter—former US Representative George Santos.America is used to larger-than-life... -
Political Hell-Raiser: The Life and Times of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana Marc C. Johnson 9780806194868
RRP: £21.95£15.83Burton K. Wheeler (1882–1975) may have been the most powerful politician Montana ever produced, and he was one of the most influential—and controversial—members of the United States Senate during three of the most eventful decades in American history. A... -
Bannon: American Street Fighter Jim Proser 9781944824334
RRP: £25.00£21.25Ascendant reveals the formative early life, complicated development, tumultuous career and extraordinary successes of one of the most controversial conservative political voices today “The Most Dangerous Political Operative in America,” (Bloomberg News)... -
Remembering Kalākaua: Joseph Mokuʻōhai Poepoe’s Ka Moʻolelo o ka Mōʻī Kalākaua I Joseph Mokuʻōhai Poepoe 9780824891923
RRP: £70.00£59.50Upon sighting the USS Charleston on January 29, 1891, hundreds of citizens of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi rushed to Honolulu Harbor to celebrate the return of King David Kalākaua. Just two months earlier, their beloved mōʻī had left the islands on a mission... -
My Life in Nevada Politics: The Memoirs of Richard H. Bryan Richard H. Bryan 9781647791759
RRP: £48.95£41.61My Life in Nevada Politics tells the entertaining, informative, and at times poignant story of the rise of Richard Bryan from humble beginnings in Las Vegas to the pinnacle of Nevada politics during a time of great change across the state and nation... -
Global Marxism: Decolonisation and Revolutionary Politics Simin Fadaee 9781526177971
RRP: £85.00£75.05A cutting-edge exploration of how Marx’s ideas have been adopted and adapted by revolutionary thinkers in the Global South. For much of the twentieth century, the ideas of Karl Marx provided the backbone for social justice around the world. But today the... -
A Woman of Firsts: Margaret Heckler, Political Trailblazer Kimberly Heckler 9781493086085
RRP: £25.00£21.25Margaret Heckler’s compassionate and bipartisan work is a shining example of a hero who transcended political assumptions and expectations to help America’s women and underserved communities. The daughter of Irish immigrants, Heckler represented the... -
Winston Churchill: The Prime Ministers Series Peter Caddick-Adams 9781800753556
RRP: £16.99£11.58In his short new biography of Winston Churchill, author Peter Caddick-Adams writes than the recipe for Winston Churchill’s success during his wartime premiership of 1940-45 can be found in the First World War. He argues that Britain’s survival under... -
Global Marxism: Decolonisation and Revolutionary Politics Simin Fadaee 9781526177988
RRP: £19.99£14.52A cutting-edge exploration of how Marx’s ideas have been adopted and adapted by revolutionary thinkers in the Global South. For much of the twentieth century, the ideas of Karl Marx provided the backbone for social justice around the world. But today the... -
The Power of the Outsider: A Journey of Discovery Samuel Kasumu 9781529396935
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Samuel Kasumu has written an important - and very moving - book about the outsider phenomenon.'- Robert Peston'The personal is so well mixed with the analytical... This is really great to read!' - Kadie Kanneh-Mason-----Samuel Kasumu was the most senior... -
Mary Lou McDonald: A Republican Riddle Shane Ross 9781838955915
RRP: £10.99£9.34Mary Lou McDonald is the bookies' favourite to be Ireland's next Taoiseach. She would be the first woman to reach the office, and the first Sinn Féin leader ever to enter government in the Republic of Ireland. But how did a quintessentially bourgeois... -
The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China Michael Sheridan 9781035413478
RRP: £25.00£16.78Xi Jinping rules over 1.4 billion people and the second biggest economy on earth. He commands huge armed forces and runs a technology programme meant to dominate the globe. His ambition is to take the place of the United States and to change the world... -
Forty Years a Legislator Elmer Thomas 9780806194936
RRP: £16.95£14.41Elmer Thomas (1876–1965) represented the people of Oklahoma in the state’s first legislature and in Congress. This memoir, written shortly after he left the U.S. Senate in 1951 but never before published, chronicles his long career and offers a wealth of... -
You Can't Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024 Tariq Ali 9781804290903
RRP: £30.00£25.50This volume covers four decades: The Eighties and Nineties when the author was no longer engaged in active politics as a party-member of any sort, but had moved sideways to politico-cultural interventions: Setting up Bandung Productions (with Darcus...