Biography & autobiography / Political

Thatcher

by Clare Beckett

Accessible and affordable illustrated biography about a topical historical figure

In Those Days: A Diplomat Remembers

by James W. Spain

In Those Days is the candid, often funny, autobiography of a twentieth-century American diplomat who spent most of his life in high-level diplomacy in Asia and Africa. The story takes James Spain from an Irish...

Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey

by Peter Carlson

Junius Browne and Albert Richardson covered the Civil War for the New York Tribune until Confederates captured them as they tried to sneak past Vicksburg on a hay barge. Shuffled from one Rebel prison to another,...

Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands

by Charles Moore

With unequaled authority and dramatic detail, the first volume of Charles Moore’s authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher reveals as never before the early life, rise to power, and first years as prime minister...

Citizen McCain

by Elizabeth Drew

The most original, the most sought-after politician in America today, Senator John McCain is at the front of a large movement -- people who are dissatisfied with the way politics is conducted in this country....

All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

by John Taliaferro

If Henry James or Edith Wharton had written a novel describing the accomplished and glamorous life and times of John Hay, it would have been thought implausible—a novelist’s fancy. Nevertheless, John Taliaferro’s...

Totally Unofficial: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family

by Raphael Lemkin

Among the greatest intellectual heroes of modern times, Raphael Lemkin lived an extraordinary life of struggle and hardship, yet altered international law and redefined the world's understanding of group rights....

The Chiefs' Country: Leadership and Politics in Honiara, Soloman Islands

by Ben Burt & Michael Kwa'ioloa

In this autobiographical account of life in the capital of the Solomon Islands, Michael Kwa’ioloa reflects on the challenges of raising a family in town and sustaining ties with a distant rural homeland on...

Straight from the Heart

by Ann Richards

Straight from the Heart is Ann Richards’s story, told with her trademark candor and spicy humor.

Born in a tiny town near Waco, Texas, she entered politics when her husband wouldn’t—and went on to become...

Safirka: An American Envoy

by Peter Bridges

"This book recounts my experiences as a career office of the American Foreign Service, as ambassador to Somalia in 1984-86 and during the years before I went to Africa" .What follows does not claim to be the...

Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism

by Maajid Nawaz

Maajid Nawaz spent his teenage years listening to American hip-hop and learning about the radical Islamist movement spreading throughout Europe and Asia in the 1980s and 90s. At 16, he was already a ranking...

Margaret Thatcher

by Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher is the towering political figure of late-twentieth-century Great Britain. No other prime minister in modern times sought to change the British nation and its place in the world as radically...

Jeb Bush: Aggressive Conservatism in Florida

by Robert E., Jr. Crew

This book examines the conservative theory that guided Jeb Bush's behavior and the aggressive manner in which he used the Office of Governor to pursue his goals. It offers insight into his motivations and competencies...

The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed

by David Stockman

The controversial bestseller on the failure of the Reagan Revolution, now back in print

Leading the Way: The Story of Ed Feulner and the Heritage Foundation

by Lee Edwards

The remarkable history of The Heritage Foundation, its influential founder, and the conservative movement in America.

Leading the Way tells the story of how Ed Feulner has transformed policymaking in Washington...

Shelley: The Pursuit

by Richard Holmes

Shelley: The Pursuit is the book with which Richard Holmes—the finest literary biographer of our day—made his name. Dispensing with the long-established Victorian picture of Shelley as a blandly ethereal...

Roger Ailes: Off Camera

by Zev Chafets

"When you've got Roger Ailes on your side, you do not lose."-Rush Limbaugh

Roger Ailes is the quintessential man behind the curtain. He more or less invented modern politi­cal consulting and helped Richard...

Walter White: The Dilemma of Black Identity in America

by Thomas Dyja

The day Walter White was buried in 1955 the New York Times called him "the nearest approach to a national leader of American Negroes since Booker T. Washington." For more than two decades, White, as secretary...

Joe Moakley's Journey: From South Boston to El Salvador

by Mark Robert Schneider

The first biography of the popular, long-serving congressman from South Boston

The Life and Teaching of Karl Marx (Routledge Revivals)

by Max Beer

First published in English in 1921, this work was originally written by renowned Marxist historian Max Beer to commemorate the centenary of Marx's birth. It is a definitive biography, full of interesting personal...