Presidents & Heads of State

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812979480Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

'Meticulous... Probably the most disturbing portrait of Hitler I have ever read' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesBy the summer of 1939 Hitler was at the zenith of his power. Yet despite initial triumphs in the early stages of war, the Fuhrer's fortunes...

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

Thomas Sankara, often called the African Che Guevara, was president of Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in Africa, until his assassination during the military coup that brought down his government. Although his tenure in office was relatively...

If the American foreign policy establishment is a grand citadel, Henry Kissinger is the specter haunting its dusty hallways. For half a century, he was an omnipresent figure in war rooms and at press briefings, dutifully shepherding the American empire...

Frank Sinatra! Marilyn Monroe! Never before teamed in a book, yet theirs was a seven-year friendship and on-and-off intimate relationship shrouded in secrecy and fraught with danger.Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe-here is the first book to bring these...

Remembered by many as the Soviet leader who banged his shoe at the United Nations, Nikita Khrushchev was in fact one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Complicit in terrible Stalinist crimes, he managed to...

In this timely addition to the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Pamela Scully takes us from the 1938 birth of Nobel Peace Prize winner and two-time Liberian president Ellen Johnson through the Ebola epidemic of 2014-15. Charting her childhood and...

'Crisp and witty' Charles Moore, Spectator'A brilliant survey of the occupants of the Oval Office' Daniel Johnson, Article'Witty and succinct with splendid caricatures' Tibor Fischer, CriticA spirited and entertaining aide-memoire offering 44 short,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743286978Author Walter IsaacsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1089gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735490526Author Margaret BramfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Malchik MediaPublisher Malchik MediaWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Pulitzer Prize -winning reporter and dean of Trumpologists David Cay Johnston reveals years of eye-popping financial misdeeds by Donald Trump and his family.While the world watched Donald Trump's presidency in horror or delight, few noticed that his...

A peanut farmer from Georgia, Jimmy Carter rose to national power through mastering the strategy of the maverick politician. As the face of the 'New South', Carter's strongest support emanated from his ability to communicate directly to voters who were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982191108Author David S BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553393965Author Jon MeachamFormat HardbackPage Count 720Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

More than half a century after his death, Winston Churchill, the most significant British statesman of the twentieth century, continues to intrigue us. Peter Clark's book, however, is not merely another Churchill biography. Churchill's Britain takes us...

The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen since the Renaissance, most notably Shakespeare. This selection of ten biographies spans the period from the start of...

'Precious historical documents . . . vividly human and often funny . . . these images tell the true story of a presidency that words have failed' Jonathan Jones, Guardian The definitive visual biography of Barack Obama's historic presidency, captured in...

Originally published in 1885 by Mark Twain, Ulysses S. Grant's landmark memoir has been annotated by Elizabeth Samet in this lavish edition. No previous edition combines such a sweep of historical and cultural contexts with the literary authority that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593314852Author Dwight D. EisenhowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Francis Parkman Prize 1975 and Pulitzer Prize 1975.Book InformationISBN 9780394720241Author Robert A. CaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 1344Imprint Random House USA...

A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020 The gripping, untold story of how Saudi Arabia's secretive and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110590Author Bob SpitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The most thorough, authoritative, and up-to-date single-volume reference to the presidency in print.About the Author In addition to The American President, Kathryn Moore is the co-author of Dear Harry...Truman's Mailroom, 1945-1953: The Truman...

Did you know that Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka was the first woman in the world to become a democratically elected prime minister? That Tina Anselmi was a wartime resistance fighter who became the first woman to serve as a cabinet minister in...

Criminology on Trump is a criminological investigation of the world's most successful outlaw, Donald J. Trump. Over the course of five decades, Donald Trump has been accused of sexual assault, tax evasion, money laundering, non-payment of employees, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Governor General's Literary Award - Nonfiction 2003 and Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2002. Nominated for Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction...

President Joe Biden tells the story of his extraordinary life and career prior to his emergence as Barack Obama's beloved, influential vice president. 'I remain captivated by the possibilities of politics and public service. In fact, I believe that my...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780812973464Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA...

The revelatory, poignant story of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest and eventually secreted-away Kennedy daughter, and how her life transformed her family, its women especially, and an entire nation."[Larson] succeeds in providing a well-rounded portrait of a...

'Important, compelling, and detailed . . . a superb analysis of the West's policy missteps and the tragic consequences of them.' - General David PetraeusIn Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny, Con Coughlin, veteran commentator on war in the Middle East and...

The subject of numerous biographies and history books, Winston Churchill has been repeatedly voted as one of the greatest of Englishmen. Even today, Boris Johnson in his failing attempts to be magisterial, has adopted many of his hero's mannerism! And,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Pulitzer Prize 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780307277909Author John Milton CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House...

On the night of the presidential election in 1876, a gang of counterfeiters out of Chicago attempted to steal the entombed embalmed body of Abraham Lincoln and hold it for ransom. The custodian of the tomb was so shaken by the incident that he willingly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649605955Author John PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Ambassador InternationalPublisher Ambassador InternationalWeight(grams)...

A major new investigation into the Bhutto family, examining their influence in Pakistan from the colonial era to the present day "Students of geopolitics and South Asia will find this a valuable book."-Kirkus Reviews "Fluently written, impeccably...

The bestselling memoir by France's president, Emmanuel Macron. Some believe that our country is in decline, that the worst is yet to come, that our civilisation is withering away. That only isolation or civil strife are on our horizon. That to protect...

A New York Times bestseller, this is the "outstanding" (The Atlantic), insightful, and authoritative account of Dwight Eisenhower's presidency.Drawing on newly declassified documents and thousands of pages of unpublished material, The Age of Eisenhower...

A revelatory portrait showing how the famed British statesman created a network of American colleagues and friends who helped push our foreign policy in Britain's favor during World War IIWinston Churchill was the consummate networker. Using newly...

A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and Hitler and their regimes From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both...