Presidents & Heads of State

A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of IsraelIn this authoritative and empathetic biography, Pnina Lahav reexamines the life of Golda Meir (1898-1978) through a feminist lens, focusing on her recurring role as a woman standing...

The seminal biography of one of America's towering, enigmatic figures. From his boyhood in Ohio to the battlefields of the Civil War and his presidency during the crucial years of Reconstruction, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traces the entire...

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.Book InformationISBN 9780743259934Author Martin GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 704gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805069228Author Ted WidmerFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company Inc

'When the Nazi power was broken, I asked myself what was the best advice I could give to my fellow citizens here in this island and across the channel in our ravaged continent. There was no difficulty in answering the question. My counsel to Europe can...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Historical Society American History Book Prize and Pulitzer Prize (Biography).Book InformationISBN 9781594202667Author Ron ChernowFormat HardbackPage...

Before Winston Churchill made history, he made news. To a great extent, the news made him too. If it was his own efforts that made him a hero, it was the media that made him a celebrity - and it has been considerably responsible for perpetuating his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618773442Author MR Joshua Wolf ShenkFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperOneWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm *...

John Major succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister, but his initial popularity soon faded with the devaluation of the sterling, his achievement at Maastricht which brought division to his party and he oversaw the longest recession since WW2.Book...

As part of the series The 20 PM of the 20th Century this biography concentrates on Tony Blair's first three years in office.Book InformationISBN 9781904950738Author Mick TempleFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Haus PublishingPublisher Haus...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781742586120Author Kevin ShillingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Western Australia PressPublisher University of Western Australia...

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 9780805069082Author TrefousseFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Times BooksPublisher Times Books

Ibn Saud grew to manhood first through living the harsh traditional life of the desert nomad, a life that had changed little since the days of Abraham, and then, through a careful study during his adolescence in Kuwait, of the ways of the great imperial...

Lone Star Rising, the first volume in Robert Dallek's biography of LBJ, was hailed as "a triumphant portrait of Lyndon Johnson as rich and oversized and complex as the nation that shaped him." Now, in the final volume, Dallek takes us through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806538631Author John R. BarlettaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint 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 9780394499734Author Robert A. CaroFormat HardbackPage Count 912Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 1378gDimensions(mm) 242mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307951144Author H. W. BrandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 879gDimensions(mm) 233mm * 154mm...

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.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 2009.Book InformationISBN 9781400063253Author Jon MeachamFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Califano takes us into the Oval Office as the decisions that irrevocably changed the United States were being crafted to create Johnson's ambitious Great Society. He shows us LBJ's commitment to economic and social revolution, and his willingness to do...

Toward the end of his administration (2010-2015), then Uruguayan President Jose 'Pepe' Mujica made headlines across the world with a couple of unusual speeches at United Nations assemblies in Rio de Janeiro and New York that were heatedly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555903Author John FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451477279Author Tim McgrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316301992Author Alan FriedmanFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 145mm *...

The vivid, behind-the-scenes story of perhaps the most consequential political moment in American history-Abraham Lincoln's history-changing nomination to lead the Republican Party in the 1860 presidential electionIllinois lawyer Abraham Lincoln had a...

This is the story of the friendships that defined one of America's most beloved Presidents. Chris Matthews, who has been following and studying the Kennedys most of his life, has interviewed President Kennedy's closest confidants - family, friends, and...

This is the story of the friendships that defined one of America's most beloved Presidents. Chris Matthews, who has been following and studying the Kennedys most of his life, has interviewed President Kennedy's closest confidants - family, friends, and...

The New York Times bestseller that offers all the evidence on the biggest conspiracy in American history-the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.It's been more than fifty years since John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and it's time we all fully...

The Inevitability of Tragedy is a fascinating intellectual biography that examines Henry Kissinger's role in American government through his ideas. It analyses the continuing controversies surrounding Kissinger's policies in such places as Vietnam and...

The New York Times chief television critic James Poniewozik traces the history of television and mass media from the early 1980s to today and demonstrates how a "volcanic, camera-hogging antihero" merged with America's most powerful medium to become the...

Despite his promising start as a young man, by his early fifties Chester A. Arthur was known as the crooked crony of New York machine boss Roscoe Conkling. For years Arthur had been perceived as unfit to govern, not only by critics and the vast majority...

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 9780805069259Author WilentzFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471468851Author Harlow Giles UngerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805069570Author David GreenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Times BooksPublisher Times BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 145mm * 25mm

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 9780142437780Author John AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything, this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside the mind of one of the world's greatest leaders - and provides a revisionist, more rounded portrait...