Presidents & Heads of State

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award (Nonfiction) 2006. Commended for L.A. Times Book Prize (Biography) 2005. Short-listed for National Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948924887Author Ernst HanfstaenglFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Eva Peron remains Argentina's best-known and most iconic personality, far outlasting her own husband, President Juan Domingo Peron, himself a remarkable and charismatic political leader without whom she, as an uneducated woman in an elitist and...

Shortlisted for the 2020 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGThe final part of Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister, 'One of the great biographical achievements of our times' (Sunday Times)A TIMES,...

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...

When the dying Alexander the Great was asked to whom he bequeathed his vast empire, he supposedly replied to the strongest". There ensued a long series of struggles between his generals and governors for control of these territories. Most of these...

Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln...

Ben Bradlee first came to know John Kennedy well when they were Washington neighbors in 1958. They remained good friends and off-the-record confidants until President Kennedy's death. They also had a more professional relationship governed by Bradlee's...

There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had either morals or principles', so said Gladstone. From the First Duke of Marlborough - soldier of genius, restless empire-builder and cuckolder of Charles II - onwards, the Churchills have...

'Precious historical documents .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...

'Explosive . . . a ground-breaking and revealing new book' - Daily Mail'In explaining the rise to power of Kim Yo Jong, Lee displays his deep knowledge and understanding of North Korea's extreme, ruthless and self-obsessed dynastic autocracy, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812972825Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250276216Author J. Randy TaraborrelliFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm)...

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller.From President-Elect Joe Biden, winner of the 2020 United States presidential election, Promise Me Dad is his deeply moving memoir about the year that would forever change both a family and a country.'Biden...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950010394Author J R MacGregorFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Cac Publishing LLCPublisher Cac Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 268g

The definitive biography of the father of modern Turkey, a powerful figure in the still-unfolding drama of the Middle East.With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War came the emergence of new nations, chief among them Turkey itself...

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 9780815726173Author Fiona HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 753gDimensions(mm) 223mm...

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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER * UPDATED WITH NEW REPORTING * 'It's all here in this stunning first draft of the history of the presidency of Donald Trump' Sydney Morning Herald 'An icy, Iago-like glimpse of the emotional and moral nullity that may...

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...

Winner of the Lionel Gelber PrizeNational Book Critics Circle Award FinalistAn Economist Best Book of the Year | A Financial Times Book of the Year | A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year | A Washington Post Book of the Year | A Bloomberg News Book of...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805069075Author Tom WickerFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Times BooksPublisher Times BooksWeight(grams) 277g

A unique, colorful view of Victorian London when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured "the Great Stink" across one hot summer While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the...

An illuminating new biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer at a Washington, DC, newspaper; and her romance with a dashing, charismatic Massachusetts...

A riveting, revealing and news-making account of the CIA's interrogation of Saddam, written by the CIA agent who conducted the questioning. In December 2003, after one of the largest, most aggressive manhunts in history, US military forces captured...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Francis Parkman Prize 2008.Book InformationISBN 9780812970494Author Jean Edward SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House...

'It might not be in your lifetime', said the Chief Justice of the United States when asked whether the files on the assassination of President Kennedy would be made public. If the President was killed by a lone gunman, as the first official enquiry...

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...

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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...

'Magisterial ... As engagingly readable as a good novel' Observer The definitive biography of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, from the acclaimed historian Paul Preston. Francisco Franco was the Caudillo of...

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...

These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen, whose lives span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. Selected from Plutarch's Roman Lives, they...

The extraordinary account of Margaret Thatcher's life up to her dramatic election as the first woman Prime Minister of England in 1979. Margaret Thatcher was the towering figure of late-twentieth-century British politics. This is the story of...

'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader' WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the People An intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and...

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...