Presidents & Heads of State

Bill Clinton remains the great American enigma. John Gartner, a practicing psychologist, unravels the mystery of Clinton's complex nature by questioning the well-crafted Clinton life story we thought we knew. Travelling through Arkansas, Gartner...

The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Ruler of the Soviet Union during the first decade after...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143111214Author Robert DallekFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 595gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 139mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930852917Author Webster G TarpleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Progressive PressPublisher Progressive PressWeight(grams) 848g

When Warren G. Harding was elected president in 1920, he brought to Washington some of his political chums from Ohio. They played poker; they sold illegal liquor permits, pardons and paroles. They sold fixes in the Justice Department and transported...

Once a powerful figure who reversed the disintegration of China and steered the country to Allied victory in World War II, Chiang Kai-shek fled into exile following his 1949 defeat in the Chinese civil war. As attention pivoted to Mao Zedong's communist...

This is an engaging and vivid account of S.R. Nathan's rise from humble origins to become Singapore's longest serving President. This engrossing and engaging book tells the story of Singapore's President S.R. Nathan in his own words. It takes readers on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501192623Author Marton, KatiFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 160mm...

In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452297555Author Ron ReaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 218g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873514736Author Carl SolbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S...

Ex-President Lula of Brazil has a life that reads like a film script. The child of a dysfunctional family, his early life was one of poverty and chaos. In the 1970s, at a time when his country and continent were ruled by right-wing dictators, he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668014844Author Dorothy HooblerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Award (General Nonfiction) 1982.Book InformationISBN 9780679729457Author Robert A. CaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 960Imprint Vintage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538700433Author Andrew MortonFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936239993Author Adam GorightlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 425g

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...

Jonathan Aitken skilfully analyses the country's achievements in all its complexity to explain Kazakhstan and Nazarbayev's emergence on the international stage. Kazakhstan is colossal in size, complicated in its history, colourful in its culture and is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555835Author Steve PaikinFormat HardbackPage Count 337Imprint 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 9781541742499Author Anna FifieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476739434Author Ted WidmerFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 163mm *...

Few people have made decisions as momentous as Eisenhower, nor has one person had to make such a varied range of them. From D-Day to Little Rock, from the Korean War to Cold War crises, from the Red Scare to the Missile Gap controversies, he was able to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805056877Author Carlo D'EsteFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 1179gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681778822Author David LoughFormat HardbackPage Count 648Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 163mm * 53mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471394327Author Harlow Giles UngerFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has long been dismissed as hyper-intellectual. Viciously assailed by Jackson and his populist mobs for being both slippery and effete, Adams nevertheless...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593729458Author Jon MeachamFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Now available in paperback, Cromwell's Legacy is an exciting collection of essays by scholars who are well-known in their fields of research, most of whom have a proven track record of making their scholarship accessible to a wide student and general...

George Washington dominates the narrative of the nation's birth, yet American history has largely forgotten what he knew: that the country's fate depended less on grand rhetorical statements of independence and self-governance than on land--Indian land...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143114758Author Thomas KeneallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 144gDimensions(mm) 180mm...

International views of Russia have changed drastically in the last decade, due in part to the leadership of the decidedly pro-Western President Yeltsin. It was not without concern that we saw the next elected leader pulled from the ranks of the former...

Politically shrewd but fatally unable to adapt to new political realities, Andrew Johnson presided, disastrously, over the tumultuous first years of Reconstruction. In this provocative account, Hans Trefousse gives us "a brilliant, compassionate portrait...

In a period when Western military engagement has unleashed violent sectarianism global terrorism, and become a catalyst for the biggest exodus of migrants since the Second World War, the 1999 Nato intervention in Kosovo remains a unique and shining...

This book builds on the strengths of the previous volumes by the same author to provide the most detailed and nuanced account of the man, his politics and his profound influence on Russian politics, foreign policy and society. However, this is not a new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743298100Author Patricia O'TooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Black Americans hoped Barack Obama would lead them to the "Promised Land," and white Americans hoped he would reconcile the races, but by failing to understand his country or himself, Obama pulled the nation apart.In his introduction to the world at the...

The friendship of the bachelor politicians James Buchanan (1791-1868) of Pennsylvania and William Rufus King (1786-1853) of Alabama has excited much speculation through the years. Why did neither marry? Might they have been gay? Or was their relationship...

Remember when Trump was a great boss, a great father, and a great businessman, before the liberal media rewrote that narrative? That's still the real Trump. Longtime Trump Organization executive and attorney George A. Sorial saw the real Trump...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612196886Author Barack ObamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

The American Dream isn't a thing of the past, but a miracle of the present.Now more than ever it's easy to focus on the divisions that plague our nation. It may seem as if our best days are behind us, but bestselling author and senator Tim Scott believes...