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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorIn 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"--
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.
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
John Lewis, Michael D'Orso · 526 pages
The son of an Alabama sharecropper, and now a sixth-term United States Congressman, John Lewis has led an extraordinary life, one that found him at the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the late '50s and '60s. As Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lewis was present at all the major battlefields of the movement. Arrested more than forty times and severely beat
A Doctor in the House: The Memoirs of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad
Mahathir "Che Det" Mohamad, mhtyr mHmd · 843 pages
Common Ground
Justin Trudeau · 343 pages
"Justin Trudeau's candid memoir will reveal to its readers the experiences that have shaped him over the course of his life and show how his passion for Canada and its people took root. Covering the years from his childhood at 24 Sussex to his McGill days during the tumultuous time of the Charlottetown Accord to his first campaign in Papineau to his role as Liberal leader today, the book will capt
Conversations With Myself
Nelson Mandela · 454 pages
Nelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has bestowed his entire extant personal papers, which offer an unprecedented insight into his remarkable life. A singular international publishing event, Conversations with Myself brings these documents into a sweeping na
The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future
Fawzia Koofi, Nadene Ghouri · 266 pages
"The nineteenth daughter of a local village leader in rural Afghanistan, Fawzia Koofi was left to die in the sun after birth by her mother. But she survived, and perseverance in the face of extreme hardship has defined her life ever since. Despite the abuse of her family, the exploitative Russian and Taliban regimes, the murders of her father, brother, and husband, and numerous attempts on her lif
A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety
Jimmy Carter · 257 pages
My Life: A Spoken Autobiography
Fidel Castro, Ignacio Ramonet · 608 pages
A Promised Land
Barack Obama · 768 pages
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy. In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political
An American Life
Ronald Reagan · 748 pages
The former president tells of his life and political experiences.
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000
Lee Kuan Yew · 752 pages
Outsider in the White House
Bernie Sanders · 346 pages
As Bernie Sanders continues to cement his reputation as hero to the progressive left with his run for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016, this expanded and updated edition of his 1997 political autobiography continues his remarkable story as he fights to bring radical social change to America. The revised edition will include a new introduction from Sanders explaining what led to his
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
Robert M. Gates · 640 pages
The former Secretary of Defense offers a candid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
My Story
Julia Gillard · 528 pages
"With new material and dresh insights, Julia Gillard reveals what life was really like as Australia's first female Prime Minister."--Back cover.
At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA
George Tenet · 549 pages
Tenet's memoir of his life at the CIA--a revelatory look at the inner workings of America's top intelligence agency and its dealings with national leaders at home and abroad. Tenet illuminates how the country was prepared--and not prepared--to deal with a world full of new and deadly threats. Beginning with his installation as Director in 1997, he unfolds the events that led up to 9/11: his declar
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
Al Franken · 355 pages
Going Rogue: An American Life
Sarah Palin, Lynn Vincent · 512 pages
One year ago, Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a comet. Yet even now, few Americans know who this remarkable woman really is.On September 3, 2008 Alaska Governor and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin delivered a speech at the Republican National Convention that electrified the nation and instantly made her one of the most recognizable women in the world.As chief executi
Good Morning, Mr. Mandela: A Memoir
Zelda la Grange · 368 pages
Zelda la Grange grew up in South Africa as a white Afrikaner who supported the rules of segregation. Yet just a few years after the end of Apartheid she would become a most trusted assistant to Nelson Mandela, growing to respect and cherish the man she had been taught was the enemy. This book tells the extraordinary story of how a young woman had her life, beliefs, prejudices and everything she on
My Grandfather's Son
Clarence Thomas · 289 pages
The Supreme Court justice recounts his life story, from his impoverished childhood in Jim Crow-era Georgia and his struggles to acquire an education, to his publicly contested confirmation to the nation's highest court.
The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour
Peter Mandelson · 584 pages
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. · 400 pages
A professor of history and the noted author and editor of several books on the civil rights struggle, Dr. Clayborne Carson was selected by the estate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to edit and publish Dr. King's papers. Drawing upon an unprecedented archive of King's own words--including unpublished letters and diaries, as well as video footage and recordings--Dr. Carson creates an unforgettable
Daughter of the East: An Autobiography
Benazir Bhutto · 442 pages