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My life with Pablo Neruda
By Matilde Urrutia, Alexandria Giardino. 1997
A biography of the lover, muse, wife, and then widow of the Nobel-laureate Chilean poet. She describes their life together,…
and then her persecution by the Pinochet government after Neruda's sudden death. She reveals the birth of "The Captain's verses", one of Neruda's most famous volumes of poetry, and discusses their illicit marriage in Italy, as well as her life under dictatorship until she began using Neruda's own words to lash out against the regime. Some descriptions of violence. 1986. Uniform title: Mi vida junto a Pablo Neruda.My grandfather's house: scenes of childhood and youth
By Charles Ritchie. 1987
The author affectionately looks back at some of the characters that peopled his childhood and youth. The reader is introduced…
to Ritchie's uncle, his dashing indomitable mother, mad cousin, and Irish nursery governess. 1987.My life with Jacqueline Kennedy
By Frances Spatz Leighton, Mary Barelli Gallagher. 1970
My years as Prime Minister (Ron Graham Bks.)
By Jean Chrétien. 2007
By the time he left office, Jean Chrétien had been in politics for forty years. Through the decade 1993 to…
2003 he won three majority elections as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. Finding the country dangerously in debt and bitterly divided, he describes how his government wiped out the deficit in just four years, helped to defeat the separatists in the cliffhanger Quebec referendum, passed the Clarity Act, and set out to fulfill the economic and social promises his party made in its famous Red Books. 2007.My father's country: the story of a German family
By Shaun Whiteside, Wibke Bruhns. 2009
On August 26, 1944, Hans Georg Klamroth was executed for his participation in the July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler.…
Decades later, his daughter Wibke was watching a TV documentary about those events when images of her father suddenly appeared on screen. Wibke began to trace her father's, and more widely, her well-to-do merchant family's, life in Germany, finally coming to know the mysterious man she barely remembers. Explicit descriptions of violence. 2009. Uniform title: Meines Vaters Land.My turn: the memoirs of Nancy Reagan
By Nancy Reagan, William Novak. 1989
Feeling that she needs to set the record straight for historical purposes, Nancy Reagan tells her side of the story…
regarding the eight years she spent in the White House. Among the topics she discusses are her adjustment to being a first lady, and her use of astrology. Bestseller. 1989.Mussolini: A Biography
By Denis Mack Smith. 1981
An account of the fascist dictator of Italy, showing how he rose from humble origins to absolute power by capitalising…
on the situations in which he found himself. Something of the man behind the public image is explored and also his journey from wide popular appeal to becoming possibly the most hated man in his own country. 1981.My life
By Golda Meir. 1975
Some of the men and women whom the author has known, some of the places she has seen, and some…
of the incredible events in which she, as Prime Minister of Israel, has participated. 1975.My life
By Bill Clinton. 2004
President Bill Clinton's "My life" is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to…
devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. It is the fullest, most concretely detailed account of a presidency ever written, and a testament to the positive impact on America and on the world of his work and his ideals. Here is the life of a great national and international figure, revealed with all his talents and contradictions. 2004. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.Mulroney: the politics of ambition
By John Sawatsky. 1991
Mulroney, the making of the prime minister: The Making Of The Prime Minister
By L. Ian MacDonald. 1984
Mitterrand, l'insaisissable
By Jean Daniel. 2016
Etalés sur plus de trente ans, les textes ici rassemblés dressent le portrait d'un homme politique riche en contrastes. Histoire…
d'un long compagnonnage entre J. Daniel et F. Mitterrand, d'abord intellectuel et politique, mais aussi littéraire et philosophique. 2016."Most blessed of the patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination
By Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter S Onuf. 2016
Tracing Jefferson’s development and maturation from his youth to his old age, the authors explore what they call the “empire”…
of Jefferson’s imagination—his expansive state of mind born of the intellectual influences and life experiences that led him into public life as a modern avatar of the enlightenment, who often likened himself to an ancient figure—“the most blessed of the patriarchs." Jefferson was a man so riven with contradictions that he is almost impossible to know. The authors challenge much of what we have come to accept about Jefferson, and reintroduce us to a man more gifted than most, but complicated in just the ways we all are. 2016.More than a rose: prime ministers, wives, and other women
By Heather Robertson. 1991
Heather Robertson tells the stories of the wives of Canada's prime ministers, revealing not only lives of adventure, power, and…
love, but in some cases, lives of loneliness, public condemnation, and drug addiction. Robertson offers a portrait of the trappings, and the traps, of politcal power, past and present. c1991.Monica's story
By Andrew Morton. 1999
An account of Monica Lewinsky's affair with President Bill Clinton that began soon after she became a White House intern…
in 1995. Portrays her as worldly and sophisticated but, at the same time, naive and overly trusting of others. Describes how she became the star witness in an investigation of the president. Some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 1999.Docteur Bethune (Opuscule)
By Ted Allan, Sydney Gordon, Jean Paré. 1989
Qui était ce Canadien dont le nom est encore vénéré en Chine? Bagarreur, frondeur, séducteur, ce médecin souvent irascible, mu…
par une passion pour la vie, refusait au coeur de la Grande Depression des années trente, le refuge pharisien du monde des nantis. 1989. Titre uniforme: The scalpel, the sword.Portrait du général Georges Vanier, homme de Dieu qui pratiquait avec modestie, humour, délicatesse et avec une chaleur humaine rayonnante…
les vertus de l'Évangile. La vie de foi chrétienne de cet homme qui a illustré son époque par son fils Jean, fondateur de l'Arche, un organisme oeuvrant auprès des démunis. 1992.Désobéir
By Claude Charron. 1983
Evita: le destin extraordinaire d'Eva Perón
By Alfonso Crespo, Édouard Jimenez. 1982
La vie d'Evita, c'est le destin exceptionnel et poignant d'une femme qui tailla farouchement sa route; soulevant ferveur, haine ou…
délire. De seconds rôles à la radio et au théâtre, elle parvint aux côtés du dictateur Juan Perron qu'elle imposa à la présidence de la république en Argentine. Quelques descriptions de violence. 1982. Titre uniforme: Evita viva o muerta.Mazarin, le maître du jeu
By Simone Bertière. 2007
Une solide biographie consacrée à Mazarin, cardinal et homme politique français d'origine italienne. En trois grandes parties: La quête d'un…
emploi - Sur la corde raide - Le poids du pouvoir. Tableaux généalogiques, cartes et repères chronologiques complètent l'ouvrage. 2007.