Presidents & Heads of State

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524745899Author William InbodenFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

A groundbreaking account of Napoleon Bonaparte, Pope Pius VII, and the kidnapping that would forever divide church and state "In gripping, vivid prose, Caiani brings to life the struggle for power that would shape modern Europe. It all makes for a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451628395Author Ronald ReaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Threshold EditionsPublisher Threshold EditionsWeight(grams) 848gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

The rise of Donald Trump may have shocked Americans, but it should not have surprised them. His anti-democratic movement is the culmination of a decades-long breakdown of U.S. institutions. The same blindness to U.S. decline - particularly the loss of...

The memoirs of senior UK diplomat Sir Peter Westmacott, former ambassador in Turkey, France and the United States during Barack Obama's presidency. 'A highly readable account of a glittering diplomatic career' Tony Blair 'One of the most brilliant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812981254Author Ronald C. White, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Parkland is an extraordinarily exciting, precise and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald. It is drawn from Reclaiming History, a huge and historic account of the event and all...

What Melania wants, Melania gets. The former director of special events at Vogue and producer of nine legendary Met Galas, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff met Melania Knauss in 2003 and had a front row seat to the transformation of Donald Trump's then...

Malcolm Turnbull, Australia's 29th Prime Minister, tells the remarkable story of his life in this lively political page-turner. When Malcolm Turnbull took over the nation's top job there was a sense of excitement in Australia. Sky-high opinion polls...

Famously beating Churchill in the 1945 election, Attlee's post-war government enacted a broad programme of socialist legislation in spite of conditions of austerity in which rationing was actually extended. He also gave independence to India, Pakistan,...

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 *...

One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution, a communist who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, an aggressive and distrustful...

In this poignant memoir, Naina Yeltsina, the wife of the first president of Russia, recounts the compelling story of her life, from her earliest childhood memories and the time when she met and became engaged to Boris Yeltsin, her companion of over fifty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812979473Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1125gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past fifty years, you're aware of the many hypotheses that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was not done by one man. Whether you've read one or a dozen of the books on this topic, there's no...

Eamon de Valera is the most remarkable man in the history of modern Ireland. Much as Churchill personified British resistance to Hitler and de Gaulle personified the freedom of France, de Valera personified Irish independence. From his emergence in the...

An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years,...

The ancient Sibylline prophecies had foretold that the Roman Empire would last for 1000 years. As the time for the expected dissolution approached in the middle of the third century AD, the empire was lapsing into chaos, with seemingly interminable civil...

Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Books of 2023“Richard Norton Smith had brought a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and storytelling verve to the life of a consequential president—Gerald R. Ford. Ford’s is a very American life, and Smith has charted its...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER AND OFFICIAL TIE-IN TO THE AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE STARRING GARY OLDMAN, WHO TOOK HOME BEST ACTOR AT THE OSCARS FOR HIS SUBLIME TURN AS WINSTON CHURCHILL.From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of...

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 gripping account of the months before and after Stalin's death and how his demise reshaped the course of twentieth-century history Joshua Rubenstein's riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when no one could foresee an end to Joseph...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743269193Author David TalbotFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of The National Review Best Book 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780553383294Author Alexander RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div...

In January 2006, after the Republic of Liberia had been racked by fourteen years of brutal civil conflict, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf-Africa's "Iron Lady" - was sworn in as president, an event that marked a tremendous turning point in the history of the West...

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...

"The extraordinary untold story of how a disillusioned American diplomat named William C. Bullitt came to Freud's couch in 1926, and how Freud and his patient collaborated on a psychobiography of President Woodrow Wilson."-Wall Street JournalThe...

The first English-language biography of the de facto ruler of the late Ottoman Empire and architect of the Armenian GenocideTalaat Pasha (1874-1921) led the Young Turks' single-party regime in the Ottoman Empire during World War I and is arguably a...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735503752Author Donald J TrumpFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Winning Team PublishingPublisher Winning Team PublishingWeight(grams)...

Ronald Reagan is arguably the most successful post-war American president. A transformational leader, he is broadly credited with renewing American prosperity after the stagflation-hit 1970s, laying the foundations for Cold War victory and bringing about...

Fifty years after his passing, The Man Within is meant to reinvigorate the spirit of Winston Churchill-approachable rather than academic, lively rather than staid. This collection features exceptional black-and-white photos, many of which are...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Kennedy and Me and Five Days in November reflects on his seventeen years in the Secret Service for presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford. The assassination of one president, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395599686Author Winston ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 1088Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 1164g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805069525Author Charles W. CalhounFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982146917Author Cw GoodyearFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 162mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743270755Author Doris Kearns GoodwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Simon & Schuster AudioPublisher Simon & Schuster Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971330Author PlutarchFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

This penetrating, timely portrait of Robert Mugabe is the psychobiography of a man whose once brilliant career has ruined Zimbabwe and cast shame on the African continent. Heidi Holland's tireless investigation begins with her having dinner with Mugabe,...

The memoirs of senior UK diplomat Sir Peter Westmacott, former ambassador in Turkey, France and the United States during Barack Obama's presidency. 'A highly readable account of a glittering diplomatic career' Tony Blair 'One of the most brilliant...