Presidents & Heads of State

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569808177Author William DeGregorioFormat PaperbackPage Count 900Imprint Barricade Books IncPublisher Barricade Books Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806542539Author Michael J. GerhardtFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930852924Author Webster G TarpleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 659Imprint Progressive PressPublisher Progressive PressWeight(grams) 792g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062278791Author Lecturer in Chemistry John F KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743236577Author Carolly EricksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 232mm *...

Joe Biden: Quotes to Live By is an inspiring and hilarious collection of over 170 quotes from one of America's most beloved politicians.Homespun, caring and empathetic, Joe is the nation's uncle, but his sometimes bizarre and baffling remarks can seem...

"This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous. My husband is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for him to marry." -Letter written by Princess Diana, late 1996It is a moment...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062997463Author Thomas E RicksFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805069235Author Henry F. GraffFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 276g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812987027Author Fredrik LogevallFormat PaperbackPage Count 816Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

During his long and extraordinary life, Winston Churchill was a central figure in almost all of the tumultuous events of the first half of the twentieth century. He was a soldier, writer and politician and, after the Second World War, he became one of...

The first full account of the relationship between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, countering the legend of their enmity while drawing vital historical lessons from the differences that arose between them.Martha Washington’s worst memory was the...

Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong's life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader's personal experiences, social visions and theory, military strategies, and developmental and foreign policies in a...

A sharply critical new look at Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency reveals government policies that hindered economic recovery from the Great Depression -- and are still hurting America today. In this shocking and groundbreaking new book, economic...

An authoritative account of Stalin as a wartime leader-showing how his paradoxical policies of mass mobilization and repression affected all aspects of Soviet society "A superb new history. . . . Rieber analyses with clarity the impact of the war...

Patrice Lumumba was a leader of the independence struggle in what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the country's first democratically elected prime minister. After a meteoric rise in the colonial civil service and the African...

'Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change we seek' In his speeches as president, Barack Obama had the power to move people from all over the world as few...

To his conservative supporters in 1940s southern California, Richard Nixon was a populist everyman; to liberal intellectuals of the 1950s, he was "Tricky Dick," a devious manipulator; to 1960s radicals, a shadowy conspirator; to the Washington press...

Deng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of Mao's from the 1930s onward. Two years after Mao's death in 1976, Deng became the de facto leader of the Chinese Communist Party and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061967597Author Amity ShlaesFormat PaperbackPage Count 565Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 454g

This book is not a biography of Margaret Thatcher. It is a study of how her reputation in both the domestic and international sphere was constructed by Thatcher and others over the course of her career. Notably, this is the first scholarly treatment to...

The rise of Barack Obama is one of the great stories of this century: a defining moment for America, and one with truly global resonance. This is the book of his phenomenal journey to election, updated in paperback to cover his first two extraordinary...

The rise of Barack Obama is one of the great stories of this century: a defining moment for America, and one with truly global resonance. This is the book of his phenomenal journey to election, updated in paperback to cover his first two extraordinary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375701733Author William Lee MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 437g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608190065Author Russ BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PlcPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

This title deals with Britain's first woman prime minister, friend of Ronald Reagan and the longest serving head of government in the 20th century (1979-90), but also the only one to be removed from office in peacetime by pressure from within her own...

During the Second World War, Winston Churchill won two resounding victories. The first was a victory over Nazi Germany, the second a victory over the legion of sceptics who had derided his judgement, denied his claims to greatness, and excluded him from...

A passionate European, Edward Heath succeeded in taking Britain into the European Community. He was latter challenged for the leadership of the party by Margaret Thatcher who sidelined him during her period in office.Book InformationISBN...

The story of the Dalai Lama's life, as well as a history of the subjugation of the Tibetan people by the Chinese government. Born into a modest farming family, he was only two years old when monks pronounced him the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316227780Author Paul ReidFormat HardbackPage Count 3008Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 4286gDimensions(mm)...

With a narrative as briskly paced and vividly detailed as an international thriller, this definitive biography of Chiang Kai-shek masterfully maps the tumultuous political career of Nationalist China's generalissimo as it reevaluates his brave but...

The extraordinary partnership of Barack Obama and Joe Biden is unique in American history. The two men, their characters and styles sharply contrasting, formed a dynamic working relationship that evolved into a profound friendship. Their affinity was not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805069082Author TrefousseFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Times BooksPublisher Times Books

Joseph Stalin was one of the most ruthless and authoritarian dictators in world history, who plunged Russia into a barbarous nightmare, leaving behind a damaged nation and a legacy of grief.This concise biography presents Lenin's heir from his humble and...

"A personal look behind the scenes" (Publishers Weekly) of the presidency of Gerald Ford as seen through the eyes of Donald Rumsfeld-New York Times bestselling author and Ford's former Secretary of Defense, Chief of Staff, and longtime personal confidant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588344694Author Lisa Kathleen GraddyFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Galaxy British Book Awards: Borders Author of the Year 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780307237699Author Barack ObamaFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Crown...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307238634Author Martin AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594204876Author Ron ChernowFormat HardbackPage Count 1104Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1480gDimensions(mm) 243mm *...

Sheikh Mubarak was the founder of the modern state of Kuwait. But the man who actually led Kuwait to modernity was his son Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah, one of the most significant figures of Kuwait from the 1940s to Kuwaiti independence in 1961. Largely...