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Fire in My Soul

by Eleanor Holmes Norton, Joan Steinau Lester & Coretta Scott King

Here is the remarkable story of U.S. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton -- impassioned civil rights activist, hard-driving legislator, and one of the most powerful women in American history.

They call her...


The Kennedys at War: 1937-1945

by Edward J. Jr Renehan

A dramatic, fascinating–and revisionist–narrative detailing how America’s first family was changed utterly during World War II. First-rate history grounded in scholarship and brought to life by a critically...


Selected Writings

by Jose Marti

José Martiacute (1853-1895) is the most renowned political and literary figure in the history of Cuba. A poet, essayist, orator, statesman, abolitionist, and the martyred revolutionary leader of Cuba's...


Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative

by David Brock

In a powerful and deeply personal memoir in the tradition of Arthur Koestler’s The God That Failed, David Brock, the original right-wing scandal reporter, chronicles his rise to the pinnacle of the conservative...


The Quotable Giuliani: The Mayor of America in His Own Words

by Bill Adler

"If you've got a problem with New York City

being the capital of the world,

take it up with the Pope."

As the mayor of New York City, Rudolph Giuliani was as controversial as he was determined to revitalize...


Die Nigger Die!: A Political Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah al-Amin

by H. Rap R Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin)

More than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), came to symbolize the ideology of black revolution. This autobiography—which...


Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams

by Lynne Withey

Dearest Friend is the biography of Abigail Adams, the unschooled minister's daughter who became the most influential woman in Revolutionary America. Rich with excerpts from her incomparable letters and alive...


President Nixon: Alone in the White House

by Richard Reeves

Who was Richard Nixon? The most amazing thing about the man was not what he did as president, but that he became president. In President Nixon, Richard Reeves has used thousands of new interviews and recently...


Name-Dropping: From FDR On

by John Kenneth Galbraith

"Names? You want names? No one knows better ones than John Kenneth Galbraith” (San Diego Union-Tribune). With the dazzling insight, humor, and literary skill that mark Galbraith as one of the most distinguished...


Chances of a Lifetime

by Warren Christopher

AN ENGAGING INSIDER'S ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE MOST FASCINATING DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL EPISODES IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN HISTORY, FROM THE HIGHLY RESPECTED FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE WHO REMAINS A DEMOCRATIC...


The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda

by Paul Wellstone

“Never separate the lives you live from the words you speak,” Paul Wellstone told his students at Carleton College, where he was professor of political science.

Wellstone has lived up to his words as the...


Staying Tuned

by Daniel Schorr

"In May 1999 Kevin Klose, president of National Public Radio, invited me to a meeting of the NPR board and surprised me with a bronze plaque, emblazoned 'Lifetime Achievement Award.' I responded that, ever the...


On My Honor

by John Ashcroft

On the first day of his Senate confirmation hearings, John Ashcroft raised his right hand and vowed, "I swear to unhold the laws of the United States of America, so help me God."

People who knew him intimately...


A Personal Odyssey

by Thomas Sowell

This is the gritty story of one man's lifelong education in the school of hard knocks, as his journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and...


I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan

by Nancy Reagan

No matter what else was going on in his life or where he was—travelling to make movies for G.E., in the California governor's office, at the White House, or on Air Force One, and sometimes even from across...


First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty

by Bill Minutaglio

In one of the most unprecedented developments in the history of national politics, George W. Bush abruptly emerged to lead all presidential aspirants in the national polls for the 2000 election. Yet voters know...


Faith of My Fathers

by Mark Salter & John McCain

John McCain is one of the most admired leaders in the United States government, but his deeply felt memoir of family and war is not a political one and ends before his election to Congress. With candor and ennobling...


Hillary's Choice

by Gail Sheehy

Why does she stay with him? Where does she go from here? The author who revealed a generation's Passages now answers all the questions about the most talked-about First Lady in American history. In Hillary's...


I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up

by Jesse Ventura

When he left the navy SEALs to become a pro wrestler, the fans knew him as "Jesse, the Body."

When he hosted his hard-hitting KFAN radio talk show, he became "Jesse, the Mouth."

And now that this body-slamming,...


A Sense of Where You Are

by John McPhee

When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. A Sense of Where You Are, McPhee’s first book, is about Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen....