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Make Gentle the Life of This World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg · 491 pages
"The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993--a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture"--
Freedom from Fear
Aung San Suu Kyi · 416 pages
Third Class in Indian Railways
Mahatma Gandhi
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Barack Obama · 384 pages
Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics--a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the "endless clash of armies" we see in Congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of our democracy. He explores those forces--from the fear of losing, to the perpetual need to raise money, to the power
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty
Bradley K. Martin · 888 pages
"Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader offers in-depth portraits of North Korea's ruthless and bizarrely Orwellian leaders, Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il. Lifting Pyongyang's curtain of self-imposed isolation, this book takes readers inside a society that to a Westerner may appear to be from another planet. Subsisting on a diet short on grains and long on lies, North Koreans have been indoctr
A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice
Malalai Joya · 243 pages
In the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's "Infidel," and also the subject of an award-winning documentary, this impassioned, first-person account tells of a courageous young Afghani woman who risks her life by denouncing the powerful warlords in her country.
Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel
Dan Ephron · 320 pages
"A riveting story about the murder that changed a nation: the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin,"--Amazon.com.
Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century
Orville Schell, John Delury · 478 pages
"Through a series of ... portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today's foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country's rise to preeminence that is at once analytical and personal. How did a nation, after a long and painful period of dynastic decline, intellectual upheaval, foreign occupation, civil war, and revolution, manage to burst forth o
Living My Life
Emma Goldman, shyl bskhy · 993 pages
>What irony indeed that Emma Goldman was prevented from living her autobiography as freely as she lived her life ! This new one-volume edition belatedly presents her work precisely as she had wanted it to appear in the first place: it comes to a close as she is on the way to Ellis Island, the end of her decades of passionate activity in the United States and the beginning of her last phase of perp
Speeches and Writings, 1859-1865
Abraham Lincoln · 788 pages
Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe
Robert Gellately · 720 pages
A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945--from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War.In Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, but also analyzes the catastrophe of those years in an effort to uncover its political
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Cory Booker · 223 pages
An energetic new voice in American politics, United States Senator Cory Booker sounds a stirring call to reorient our civic discourse around the principles of empathy and solidarity. Telling candid, inspiring stories from his life and career, and imparting lessons learned from people who motivated him to serve, he speaks of rising above discord, tending to our shared resources, and embracing our c
The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
David Talbot · 704 pages
"An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful and secretive colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers. America's greatest untold story: the United States' rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. Drawing on
A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment
John Preston · 352 pages
Behind oak-panelled doors in the House of Commons, men with cut-glass accents and gold signet rings are conspiring to murder. It's the late 1960s and homosexuality has only just been legalised, and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide. As long as Norman Scott, his beautiful, unstable lover is around, Thorpe's brilliant career is at risk. With the help
Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game that made a Nation
John Carlin · 288 pages
Soon to be a major motion picture from Academy Award(r)—winning director Clint Eastwood, starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman. After being released from prison and winning South Africa's first free election, Nelson Mandela presided over a country still deeply divided by fifty years of apartheid. His plan was ambitious if not far-fetched: Use the national rugby team, the Springboks-long an embodi
Selected Political Speeches
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Michael Grant
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg · 505 pages
In 1971 former Cold War hard-liner Daniel Ellsberg made history by releasing the Pentagon Papers-a 7,000-page top-secret study of U.S. decision-making in Vietnam-to the New York Times and Washington Post. The document set in motion a chain of events that ended not only the Nixon presidency but the Vietnam War. In this remarkable memoir, Ellsberg describes in dramatic detail the two years he spent
A View From The Foothills: The Diaries Of Chris Mullin
Chris Mullin · 416 pages
Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life
Sari Nusseibeh, Anthony David · 551 pages
A Palestinian scholar and leader offers a look at the troubling recent history of his country and the Middle East from a Palestinian perspective, sharing his rationale for promoting a two-state solution to the problems affecting the region.
The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty
Kitty Kelley · 736 pages
The Bush family's rise to dominance has been marked by their masterful orchestrations of their own public image, their money and status having always afforded them a curtain of privacy. Until now. An important polemic on wealth, power, and class in America, The Family is rich in texture, probing in its psychological insight, revealing it its political and financial detail, and stunning in the patt
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941
Lynne Olson · 570 pages
Traces the crisis period leading up to America's entry into World War II, describing the nation's polarized interventionist and isolationist factions as represented by the government, in the press, and on the streets.
Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
Noah Feldman · 528 pages
"Scorpions" tells the story of four great justices: their relationship with Roosevelt, with each other, and with the turbulent world of the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. It also serves as a history of the modern Constitution itself, exploring the constitutional battles of the Roosevelt era (1940s and 1950s) and their contemporary relevance.