John Jenkins, Maines first Black state senator and mayor of both Lewiston and Auburn, led a remarkable life and his influence extended far beyond his politics and his constituents.
'Ground-breaking' - 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 creators and rulers of a de-facto nuclear weapon state.
POLITICIAN * PRISONER * PARENTA portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leadersAung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and crusader for democracyin Myanmar, is once again behind bars.
El sustento en que se apoya el Antiguo Régimen no aguanta más: irrumpe con estrépito un nuevo espíritu, mientras las viejas ideas heredadas amenazan con el colapso.
One week after Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for governor of California, the San Francisco Chronicle gibed: It was simply a flagrant example of miscasting.
A New York Times BestsellerTheodore Roosevelt, accidental president, and Joseph Bishop, newspaper editor, met when the future Rough Rider was police commissioner of New York City.
Touted in his time as one of the ';great men of the West,' Stephen Wallace Dorsey was a Reconstruction carpetbagger who went to Arkansas and finagled and bribed his way into getting elected to the US Senate after living only two years in the state before heading West to seek his fortune.
Former President Reagan, long remembered as the Great Communicator, never was at a loss for words, and his profound wisdom and wit are presented in this unique, impactful book covering more than fifty years from Hollywood to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and beyond.
Jeffers' book chronicles Theodore Roosevelt's lifelong quests and expeditionsthrilling and often dangerous journeys that produced much important scientific research and took him across North America, South America, and Africa.
In this revealing and beautifully written memoir, Mark Obama Ndesandjo, recounts his complex relationship with his older half-brother, President Barack Obama, including their first meeting in Kenya over twenty years ago.
The Cowboy President: How the American West Transformed Theodore Roosevelt details how his time spent in the Western Dakota Territory helped him recover from an overwhelming personal loss, but more importantly, how it transformed him into the man etched onto Mount Rushmore, a man who is still rated as one of the top five Presidents in American history.
On February 24, 1838, Maine Congressman Jonathan Cilley was killed in Maryland by another Congressman from Kentucky in one of the last duels to take place in the United States.
A deliciously irreverent and humorous insider's account of 25 years working at the very top of British political television'What Rob Burley doesn't know about political interviewing isn't worth knowing' - Andrew Neil'A delicious read' - Emily Maitlis 'He writes beautifully' - Jeremy Paxman'Very funny' - Steve Coogan'An excellent book' - James O'Brien'He writes brilliantly' - Adam BuxtonWhy Is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me?
Este libro es la historia de un viaje que empezó en 2019 cuando Marcos Peña finalizó su gestión como jefe de Gabinete en el gobierno nacional y decidió alejarse de la vida política después de casi dos décadas.
A Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK**WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER G.
How the politicization of the pandemic endangers our lives-and our democracyCOVID-19 has killed more people than any war or public health crisis in American history, but the scale and grim human toll of the pandemic were not inevitable.
First published in 1986 and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Early Reagan is still the most in-depth portrayal of the pre-government years of the late president.
An SS colonel goes underground at the end of WWIIEugen Dollmann was a scholar and member of the SS whose connections among Italian society led to a posting as a liaison officer attached to Mussolini during World War II.
A biography of the founder of modern Turkey that chronicles the ideas that shaped himWhen Mustafa Kemal Ataturk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science-and by the personality cult Ataturk created around himself-would reign supreme as the new religion.
How Woodrow Wilson's vision of making the world safe for democracy has been betrayed-and how America can fulfill it againThe liberal internationalist tradition is credited with America's greatest triumphs as a world power-and also its biggest failures.
