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The Teapot Dome Scandal
How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Mix hundreds of millions of dollars in petroleum reserves; rapacious oil barons and crooked politicians; under-the-table payoffs; murder, suicide, and blackmail; White House cronyism; and the excesses of the Jazz Age. The result: the granddaddy of all American political scandals, Teapot Dome.
In...
by Barry Hill
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
The biography of T. G. H. Strehlow and Aboriginal possession.
'A group of men. chanting with the enthusiasm that made them forget age & weakness & becoming young again in spirit.the rising and falling of the chant melody, like the breathing that gives us life - what an unforgettable...
Yours in Truth
A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee, Legendary Editor of The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
An intimate profile of the legendary Washington Post editor whose life and career encompassed Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, and the Kennedys—as portrayed by Tom Hanks in the Steven Spielberg film The Post
“A fairly complete and rare portrait of this last of the lion-king newspaper editors.”—The...
by Geoffrey Perret
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2000
This new, in-depth life of Eisenhower offers fresh perspectives, not only on World War II and the Korean War but also on the Cold War, the civil rights movement, McCarthyism, the U-2 crisis and Vietnam.
Geoffrey Perret's Eisenhower gives us, for the first time, the whole man. It brings...
In an Uncertain World
Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2003
Robert Rubin was sworn in as the seventieth U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in January 1995 in a brisk ceremony attended only by his wife and a few colleagues. As soon as the ceremony was over, he began an emergency meeting with President Bill Clinton on the financial crisis in Mexico. This was not...
The Conscience of a Liberal
Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2001
“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 most liberal man in the United States Senate, where for the past decade he has been...
by Gail Sheehy
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2000
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 Choice, Hillary Clinton is rendered fully human for the first time. Here is the life of a...
Bill Clinton: An American Journey
Great Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2003
Bill Clinton, forty-second president of the United States, is the quintessential baby boomer: on the one hand blessed with a near-genius IQ, on the other, beset by character flaws that made his presidency a veritable soap opera of high ideals, distressing incompetence, model financial stewardship,...
by Cristina Marcano, Alberto Barrera Tyszka
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2007
He is one of the most controversial and important world leaders currently in power. In this international bestseller, at last available in English, Hugo Chávez is captured in a critically acclaimed biography, a riveting account of the Venezuelan president who continues to influence, fascinate, and...
For Love of Politics
Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
During their eight years in the White House, Bill and Hillary Clinton worked together more closely than the public ever knew. Their intertwined personal and professional lives had far-reaching consequences–for politics, domestic policy, and international affairs–and their marital troubles became...
I Should Have Honor
A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
A fearless memoir about tribal life in Pakistan—and the act of violence that inspired one ambitious young woman to pursue a life of activism and female empowerment
“Khalida Brohi understands the true nature of honor. She is fearless in her pursuit of justice and equality.”—Malala Yousafzai,...
A Farther Shore
Ireland's Long Road to Peace
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2003
He’s been imprisoned, shot at, denounced, shunned, and banned, yet Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams remains resolute in his belief that peace is the only viable option for the Irish people. Adams led the oldest revolutionary movement in Ireland on an extraordinary journey from armed insurrection...
In Command of History
Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Winston Churchill was one of the giants of the twentieth century. As Britain’s prime minister from 1940 to 1945, he courageously led his nation and the world away from appeasement, into war, and on to triumph over the Axis dictators. His classic six-volume account of those years, The Second World...
Worth the Fighting For
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2002
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Senator John McCain tellsthe story of his great American journey, from the U.S. Navy to his electrifying campaign for the presidency in 2000, interwoven with heartfelt portraits of the mavericks who have inspired him through the years.
After five and a half years as...