1012 books (51 pages) in this category
Dean Acheson and the Obligations of Power
by Michael F. Hopkins
<p>Dean Acheson was the most influential American diplomat of the twentieth century. He shaped the pivotal shift in American foreign policy from isolation to engagement in global affairs, This critical re-evaluation of Acheson’s public career ...
ISBN: 9781538100028
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eBookIdeological Fissures Inside The EFF
by Andile Mngxitama
<p><em><strong>Defending Dr Jordan</strong></em> is culled from Andile Mngxitama’s unpublished memoir of his infamous short stint as commissar in the Economic Freedom Fighters. In this tale he narrates one of the many reasons for that failed ...
ISBN: 1230002080765
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eBookRobert F. Kennedy in Mississippi
by Ellen B. Meacham
<p>In April 1967, a year before his run for president, Senator Robert F. Kennedy knelt in a crumbling shack in Mississippi trying to coax a response from a listless child. The toddler sat picking at dried rice and beans spilled over the dirt ...
ISBN: 9781496817464
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eBookThe Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
by Larry Tye
<p>The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on first-ever access to his personal and professional papers, medical and military records, and recently-unsealed transcripts of his closed-door Congressional
ISBN: 9781328960023
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eBookA True Story of Weird Politics, Money, Madness, and Finger Food
by Trey Radel
<p>**How the Washington sausage really gets made: a brutally honest, outrageous memoir by former GOP congressman Trey Radel.</p> <p>"Radel, the former congressman busted on cocaine charges, has published a memoir that delves into the ...
ISBN: 9780735210738
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eBookInside Saudi Arabia Following 9/11
by Robert W. Jordan & Steve Fiffer
<p>In the spring of 2001, George W. Bush selected Dallas attorney Robert W. Jordan as the ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Jordan’s nomination sped through Congress in the wake of the terrorist attacks on 9/11, and he was at his post by early ...
ISBN: 9781612347400
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eBookDiary of a Dismissed Delegate: Public Good at the Mercy of Bureaucracy and Sycophancy in Cameroon
by Ngwane, George
Diary of a Dismissed Delegate is the personal story of the trials and travails of George Ngwane as a civil servant in Cameroon. With documented evidence in support, the book delves into the destructive machinations of the bureaucracy and ...
ISBN: 9789956764129
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eBookDiary of Gideon Welles Volumes I & II (Abridged, Annotated)
by Gideon Welles
<p>Abraham Lincoln brought together one of the most remarkable Cabinet's in presidential history. Among them was Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and his successor, Andrew Johnson.</p> <p>Welles describes his role and that of
ISBN: 1230000896016
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eBookDictator, The Revolution, The Machine
A Political Account of Joseph Stalin
by Tony McKenna
<p>It is a commonplace wisdom that from the authoritarian roots of the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 grew the gulags and the police state of the Stalinist epoch. The Dictator, the Revolution, The Machine overturns that perspective once and for ...
ISBN: 9781782843610
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eBookby Robert S Merrillees
<p><em>A frank personal account of experiences in diplomacy</em></p> <p>In Diplomatic Digs, Robert (Bob) Merrillees gives a frank personal account of his experiences in diplomacy and as a Foreign Affairs Officer who served Australian ...
ISBN: 9780994624673
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eBookDirty Trickster, Corporate Spy
A Watergate Saboteur Switches from Disrupting Campaigns to Spying on Employees
by Martin E Kelly
<p>Not until <em>Dirty Trickster, Corporate Spy</em> does a memoir exist by one of the principal Watergate saboteurs-provocateurs that exposes the full extent of the insalubrious side of politics and negative campaigning. And that is not all: ...
ISBN: 9781939521729
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eBookConfessions of Chicago's Last Harbor Boss
by R. J. Nelson
<p>In 1987, the city of Chicago hired a former radical college chaplain to clean up rampant corruption on the waterfront. R. J. Nelson thought he was used to the darker side of the law—he had been followed by federal agents and wiretapped due to
ISBN: 9780226334523
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eBookMy Journey from Roxbury to Dakar
by Jim Robison, Harriet Lee Elam-Thomas & John Bersia
<p>Today, diverse women of all hues represent this country overseas. Some have called this development the “Hillary Effect.” But well before our most recent female secretary of state there was Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve in that
ISBN: 9781612349800
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eBookJesse Burgess Thomas and the Making of the Missouri Compromise
by Matthew W. Hall
<p>Winner, ISHS Superior Achievement Award for a Scholarly Publication, 2016</p> <p>In 1820 the Missouri controversy erupted over the issue of slavery in the newly acquired lands of the Louisiana Purchase. It fell to Jesse Burgess Thomas ...
ISBN: 9780809334575
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eBookProfiles in Liberal Hypocrisy
by Peter Schweizer
<p>“I don’t own a single share of stock.” —Michael Moore</p> <p>Members of the liberal left exude an air of moral certitude. They pride themselves on being selflessly committed to the highest ideals and seem particularly confident of the purity
ISBN: 9780385516952
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eBookHis Road to the White House
by Francis J. Roche
<p>Following Roche’s first book, Trumped, this new tale of intrigue traces the path to the presidency of Donald Trump. Beginning with Trump’s forebears and continuing up to his election as president in 2016, Donald Trump: His Road to the White ...
ISBN: 9781457564765
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eBookOld America is Back
by Brad Power
<p> </p> <p>In a campaign-style appearance in Boca Raton, Donald Trump told the Tea Party crowd that he's a real conservative -- he's anti-tax, pro-life, pro-gun, and will "fight to get rid of Obamacare." Three elderly ...
ISBN: 1230000612623
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eBookThe Man Who Would Be King
by Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince
<p>Blood Moon Productions, a feisty independent press known for its occasionally lurid exposés of celebrity secrets, proudly announces the release, in advance of the presidential elections, of a flamboyantly outspoken personal and political ...
ISBN: 9781936003525
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eBookDonald Trump - President of the United States of America
by Gaetano Lo Presti
<p>Donald John Trump 45th President of United States of America.</p> ...
ISBN: 9788892624290
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eBookDonald Trump Believes - Donald Trump Quotes And Believes
Know better who wants to Make America Great Again
by Mobile Library
<p>Born on June 14, 1946, in Queens (New York), Donald John Trump was the second youngest of five children, raised by Fred Trump, a real estate developer, and his wife, Mary, a homemaker and Scottish immigrant.</p> <p>He was well know in ...
ISBN: 9788827570814
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