Autobiography: historical, political & military books

First published in 1998, this title is an autobiography of Edward Heath, Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974. It covers...  Read More >>

Obama: An Essential Guide to the Democratic Nominee goes beyond the headlines to provide, objectively, an examination...  Read More >>

Tribune Company's Pulitzer Prizewinning Washington News Bureau uses their DC insider reporting to provide this definitive...  Read More >>

Dallek, the bestselling biographer of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, shows how the unassuming yet supremely...  Read More >>

In THE COURAGE TO LEAD, Lee tells about his life growing up on a sharecropper's farm in Georgia during segregation....  Read More >>

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the son of President Roosevelt. This dynastic biography reveals the man as a failed politician,...  Read More >>

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Abraham Lincoln was the first president whose time in office was captured by photography. Lincoln was able to use...  Read More >>

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The editors of LIFE Books have collected a richly illustrated biography of presidential candidate Barack Obama....  Read More >>

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The author describes the military careers of his grandfather and father, his own experiences as a POW in Vietnam,...  Read More >>

"From his years in the Kennedy administration up until his last days, Schlesinger was always at the center of American...  Read More >>

Forcefully examining what it means to be a civilian teaching literature at a military academy, Samet also considers...  Read More >>

My Years as Prime Minister is Jean Chrétien’s own story, told with insight and humour, of his ten years at 24 Sussex...  Read More >>

Ruth Ive, then a young stenographer working in the Ministry of Information, had the job of censoring the line, and...  Read More >>

Read My Heart: A Love Story in England's Age of Revolution  Read More >>

Presents an inspirational saga of one man's fight to enfranchise his community. This title tells the extraordinary...  Read More >>

Using the author's background information, this book places the protagonist in front of life's various pitfalls...  Read More >>

In the early seventeenth century, Captain John Smith led a company of English settlers to found the colony of Jamestown...  Read More >>

In the early seventeenth century, Captain John Smith led a company of English settlers to found the colony of Jamestown...  Read More >>

In the early seventeenth century, Captain John Smith led a company of English settlers to found the colony of Jamestown...  Read More >>

This is the exceptional story of the sharpshooting markswoman whom Will Rogers once called the finest and truest...  Read More >>

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