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Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life
Sari Nusseibeh, Anthony David · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorMy Own Story
Emmeline Pankhurst · 330 pages
With insight and great wit, Emmeline's autobiography chronicles the beginnings of her interest in feminism through to her militant and controversial fight for women's right to vote.
The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership
Yehuda Avner · 731 pages
Looks at the lives of Israeli prime ministers Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, and Menachem Begin, and the events surrounding their leadership in Israel.
Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela · 638 pages
The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling and uplifting, Long Walk to Freedom is the exhilarating story of an epic life; a story of hardship, resilience and ultimate triumph told with the clarity and eloquence of a born leader
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000
Lee Kuan Yew · 752 pages
In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir
Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney · 565 pages
"In his unmistakable voice and with an insider's eye on history, former Vice President Dick Cheney tells the story of his life and the nearly four decades he has spent at the center of American politics and power"-- "A memoir from the former Vice President of the United States"--
Personal History
Katharine Graham · 642 pages
An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women - a book that is, as its title suggests, both personal and history. It is the story of Graham's parents: the multi-millionaire father who left private business and government service to buy and restore the down-and-out Washington Post; the aggressive, formidable, self-absorbed mother, known in he
In Search of History
Theodore H. White · 720 pages
The Complete Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi · 352 pages
From inside front cover: The story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a ... loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private and public life in a coutnry plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trails of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming -- both sweet and terrible; and, fina
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
Martin Luther King Jr. · 230 pages
Chronicles the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott sparked by Mrs. Rosa Park's refusal to give up her seat to a white male, describing the plans and problems of a nonviolent campaign, reprisals by the white community, and the eventual attainment of desegrated city bus service.
Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now
Jan Wong · 405 pages
De schrijfster werd geboren in Canada als dochter van welgestelde Chinese ouders en groeide Engelstalig op. In 1972 vertrok ze als overtuigend maoïste naar China, waar ze tijdens de Culturele Revolutie (1966-1978) een van de twee eerste buitenlandse studentes was op Peking Universiteit. Ze bleef in de Volksrepubliek tot 1980. In 1988 keerde ze naar Peking terug als correspondente van de Globe and
Defying Hitler
Sebastian Haffner · 259 pages
Written in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner's memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars. Covering 1907 to 1933, his eyewitness account provides a portrait of a country in constant flux: from the rise of the First Corps, the right-wing voluntary military force set up in 1918 to suppress Communism and
Living History
Hillary Rodham Clinton · 564 pages
[The author writes] about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady. [This book] is her revealing memoir of life through the White House years. It is also her chronicle of living history with Bill Clinton. -Dust jacket.
Interventions: A Life in War and Peace
Kofi Annan, Nader Mousavizadeh · 400 pages
With eloquence and immediacy, Annan writes about the highs and lows of his years at the United Nations: from shuttle-diplomacy during crises such as Kosovo, Lebanon and Israel-Palestine to the wrenching battles over the Iraq War to the creation of the landmark Responsibility to Protect doctrine.
Seize The Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton
Bobby Seale · 429 pages
"Bobby Seale, Chairman of the Black Panther Party, defendant in the Chicago conspiracy case, and one of the New Haven Panther 14, writes from jail about himself, his party, and its leadership -- the black men who have changed themselves, have changed America, and in the course of it, have caused an enormous controversy about our liberties and institutions."--From the dust-jacket front flap.
Witness
Whittaker Chambers · 808 pages
The moving autobiography and reflective meditation of a communist spy who became a Christian and, to the scorn of the intellectual establishment, witnessed to God's grace.
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
Cleve Jones · 305 pages
Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people, Jones, nearly penniless, was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco, a city electrified by progressive politics and sexual freedom. Jones found community--in the hotel rooms and ramshackle apartments shar
A View From The Foothills: The Diaries Of Chris Mullin
Chris Mullin · 416 pages
Becoming
Michelle Obama · 432 pages
In this adaptation of her autobiography for younger readers, Michelle Obama presents an account of her life, and, in telling of her own personal evolution, stresses the need for people to realize that no one is perfect, that the process of "becoming" is what really matters.
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah · 297 pages
Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often ab
Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy
G. Gordon Liddy · 416 pages